The article introduces a discussion about the patterns of contemporary accumulation in the health care industry. The direction and significance of capitalist accumulation in health are identified as well as the characteristics of the economic environ...
In 2006, the Brazilian Ministry of Health established the Injury Surveillance System Network in Sentinel Services (Rede VIVA) to describe data on injuries victims treated at emergency departments (ED), especially the minor injuries which do not cause...
The goals of this study were to evaluate the elderly drug adhesion in an outpatient geriatric service linked to the State University Hospital of Campinas (Brazil) as well as to identify the related events to this adhesion. One hundred sixty five elde...
General health conditions as well as quality of life must urgently be improved in developing countries. This improvement could be achieved, at least in part, by the practice of citizenship. Education exerts a special role in cit...
The objective was to evaluate the use of medicines in the elderly people that live in a city in the south of Santa Catarina state. It was carried out a transverse study. 104 patients were interviewed, they were distributed in five Family Health Progr...
This paper is aimed at identifying factors associated with the use of clinical guidelines, according to managers’ perceptions, among health insurance organizations and hospitals that provide health care covered by them in Brazil. It relies on two...
This work aims to contribute to the discussion on a possible applied of health economic assessment at local level government healthcare system, and consequently use of the study results to decision making. For this, the Belo Horizonte municipality’...
Abstract This paper contributes with the adaptation of a performance evaluation tool to the public institutions based on private companies. The objective is to demonstrate how the impact of a educational activity might be measured in the economic va...
