The population aging in Brazil and in the world is reason for epidemic inquietude. So, the violence made against the senior has been considered a problem of public health. That study takes as context the health need of seniors that suffer violence, a...
The advances in research and treatment regimens have transformed AIDS into a chronic illness, with a marked increase in the quality of life of those living with HIV/AIDS. This brings new challenges in understanding and treating the disease and those...
This article’s object is the pact policy of Unified Health System (SUS). The few works in literature about health pacts, frequently, relates them to the principles of SUS consolidation, specifically to the implantation of decentralization. Here, ...
In the last decades there have been discussions concerning the process of formation of professionals of healthcare in Brazil. The discussed subjects are based on the verification of precarious aspects concerning a kind of formation that should be foc...
The thematic one of this work presents questions on the practical one of the Evaluation of functional performance in a public organization of health. This axle of analysis gains prominence from the difficulties of development of systems of evaluation...
Abstract The practice of the Social Control in the field of the Worker‘s Health comes facing the barriers imposed by the globalization and for the restructuring in the world of the work, be for the weakness of the workers‘ unions, be for the rep...
Abstract Self-medication is a very common practice not only in Brazil but also in other countries. It is defined as medication of oneself without medical advice, the patient himself deciding which drug to use. The overall objective of this study is ...
This paper addresses institutional constraints that have emerged in Brazilian politics regarding provision of anti-retroviral treatment (ART) to HIV/AIDS patients. We analyzed the normative conflict resulting from international agreements on intellec...
