Abstract The effect of the financial consolidation of the private health plan market deserves investigation, since this trend could enhance the power of the large plans and have consequences affecting the financing of the Brazilian National Health S...
Abstract: The purpose of this article is to open debate on the perspectives of the Evaluation within the National Humanization Policy/Ministry of Health (PNH/Humanizasus). Towards this goal it was sought to systemize some referential marks in the ...
The article presents the conclusion to a study of the Norma Operacional Básica do Sistema Único de Saúde - NOB-SUS 01/96 an infralegal act published by the Brazilian Health Ministry in 1996. Using the French model of “discourse analysis” the ...
BELIEFS AND INFLUENCES ABOUT FOLLOWING A WEIGHT REDUCTION DIET AMONG LOW-INCOME OBESES ABSTRACT Obesity became an epidemics in need of immediate control, mainly among the poor ones, women and least educated. WHO demands and various studies corr...
This paper discusses the challenges that medical education face regarding the aging process of Brazilian population, with an emphasis on the health-disease process and the heath care for seniors, aiming at systematizing the contents and practices...
Abstract This paper presents case studies’ results in five municipalities in São Paulo Metropolitan Region. Inequalities in access to and utilization of health services were described through advanced tabulation data from Life Conditions Su...
This study has investigated the characteristics of mental health care in the districts that belong to Alto Uruguai, taking into consideration the norms of the National Health System (SUS), and of the Psychiatric Reform. Based on a structured tool, th...
This study evaluated guardians’ perception about the use of pediatric medicines and their cariogenic and erosive potentials. Guardians were interviewed about the relationship between the use of pediatric medicines with dental caries and dental eros...
