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The link between industry and social interests in health in Brazil's National Health Innovation System: the experience of the Brazilian National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics (INTO)

Cad. saúde pública (Online); 32 (supl.2), 2016
Abstract: This article has two parts. The first discusses the relationship between industry and health interests based on three different but non-mutually exclusive "logics": (a) independent; (b) divergent; and (c) convergent. The second part describes the experience at the Brazilian National Institute o...

Innovation, development, and financing of institutions of Higher Education in health

Cad. saúde pública (Online); 32 (supl.2), 2016
Abstract: The article analyzes the configuration and trends in institutions of Higher Education and their relationship as components of the Health Economic-Industrial Complex (HEIC). The expansion of higher education is part of the transition from elite to mass systems, with tensions between quantitative...

Windows of opportunities and technological innovation in the Brazilian pharmaceutical industry

Cad. saúde pública (Online); 32 (supl.2), 2016
Abstract: The Brazilian pharmaceutical industry is heavily dependent on external sources of inputs, capital, and technology. However, the emergence of technological opportunities and the development of biotechnology and the decline of the patent boom and resulting advances by generic drugs have opened wi...

Participação da população na prevenção da leishmaniose visceral: como superar as lacunas?
Participation of the population in the prevention of visceral leishmaniasis: how to overcome the gaps?

Managers' discourse about information and knowledge related to directly observed treatment of tuberculosis

Texto & contexto enferm; 25 (2), 2016
ABSTRACT Qualitative study that aimed to analyze the discourse of 15 district managers about knowledge and information related to the transfer of the Directly Observed Treatment of Tuberculosis policy in the city of João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil. The empiric material, collected in May and June 2013 thro...

Invisibility of social vulnerability and social rights to a comprehensive health care in Chile

Texto & contexto enferm; 25 (4), 2016
ABSTRACT Objective: To estimate the magnitude of perception of invisibility of social vulnerability and its impact on the access to universal and specific services of the Comprehensive Childhood Protection System in Chile. Method: Cross-sectional study in 50 vulnerable dyads, who were registered in a f...

Aranãs do médio Jequitinhonha: aspectos socioeconômicos, demográficos e sanitários de uma população indígena desaldeada

Resumo A deficiência de dados para subsidiar a análise das condições epidemiológicas e ambientais em que vivem os povos indígenas no Brasil constitui desafio para a elaboração de políticas públicas específicas. O déficit informacional é ainda maior para os grupos “desaldeados”. D...