As questões que envolvem o lugar que os medicamentos ocupam no âmbito da saúde pública têm sido foco de importantes debates. A partir dos anos 1970, estados terceiro-mundistas levaram a Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS) a se debruçar sobre o tema, o que deu origem à primeira lista de medicamen...
ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate to which extent nursing professors understand how social determinants of health impact on health, and whether the topic is addressed in nursing undergraduate education in Brazil. Method: This is a methodological study carried out with 222 nursing faculty members from Bra...
En el mundo actual la hipertensión arterial una de las enfermedades más comunes que afectan la salud humana, siendo patología y factor de riesgo importante para otras enfermedades, por lo que las estrategias de intervención de salud deben estar dirigidas, a la prevención primaria o de ocurrencia y a...
ABSTRACT This report covers the background and evolution of Vaccination Week in the Americas (VWA), an initiative that started as a coordinated response to a 2002 measles outbreak in Colombia and Venezuela, and evolved into the model for other regions and World Immunization Week (WIW). VWA focuses on the...
In this study new free-trade agreements are discussed, which are based on the breaking down of tariff and technical barriers and normally exclude most of the poorest countries in the world. Considering the current context of economic globalization and its health impacts, seven controversial points of the...