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Judicialization of medicines: effectiveness of rights or break in public policies?

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: To analyze whether lawsuits for medicines filed against the state of Rio Grande do Norte agree with medical-sanitary and pharmaceutical assistance management criteria established by the public policies of access to medicines in force in Brazil. METHODS: This is a descriptive and ret...

Access to rrimary health care by older adults from rural areas in Southern Brazil

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To characterize the access and use of health services considered reference among the older rural population from a municipality in southern Brazil, whose rural area has full coverage of the Family Health Strategy (FHS), investigating factors associated with the choice of the Basic Fa...

Epistemologias do Sul e descolonização da saúde: por uma ecologia de cuidados na saúde coletiva

Saúde Soc; 29 (3), 2020
Resumo Este ensaio aborda a importância da descolonização da saúde, fundamentada no referencial teórico das epistemologias do Sul de Boaventura de Sousa Santos, e aponta para uma ecologia de cuidados a ser produzida no campo da saúde coletiva, abordando saúde e doença, sofrimento e cura, agravo e...

Salud pública y pruebas diagnósticas del COVID-19: caso Venezuela
Public health and diagnostics tests for SARS-COVID-2 infection: The venezuela case

Med. interna (Caracas); 36 (4), 2020
La salud pública mundial presenta en la actualidad un reto de grandes dimensiones para realizar las funciones esenciales del Siglo XXI, “el diagnóstico temprano y el tratamiento preventivo de las enfermedades”; por lo tanto la OMS considera que para conocer la magnitud de la epidemia COVID-19 es b...

Notes for the study on health systems: multifaceted analysis and tracer indicators

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To present the methodological approach used in a research that analyzed the use and performance of specialized health care, from primary care access, in four major Brazilian cities: Fortaleza (CE), Campinas (SP), São Paulo (SP) and Porto Alegre (RS). METHODS Presentation and discuss...

HIV continuum of care among trans women and travestis living in São Paulo, Brazil

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: To examine the HIV care cascade among trans women and travestis in São Paulo - Brazil, the most populous city in South America. METHODS: Using data from a cross-sectional study carried out between November 2016 and May 2017 in the city of São Paulo (Divas Research). Respondent dri...

Who was affected by the shortage of penicillin for syphilis in Rio de Janeiro, 2013-2017?

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To analyze the shortage of benzathine penicillin G (BPG), characterizing its temporal evolution and spatial distribution in the city of Rio de Janeiro from 2013 to 2017. METHODS This ecological study used gestational and congenital syphilis notifications, BPG distribution records, an...

Dificultades del autocuidado masculino: discursos de hombres participantes en un grupo de educación para la salud

Salud colect; 16 (), 2020
RESUMEN El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar las dificultades de la participación masculina en los servicios de salud y sus prácticas de autocuidado en el proceso salud-enfermedad. Para ello, se realizó una intervención, a la luz de la educación en salud, con hombres que vivían en el área de c...

La sostenibilidad del sistema de salud y el mercado farmacéutico: Una interacción permanente entre el costo de los medicamentos, el sistema de patentes y la atención a las enfermedades

Salud colect; 16 (), 2020
RESUMEN Ante la amenaza latente de futuras pandemias, este estudio tiene como objetivo analizar -desde el eje de los medicamentos- la sostenibilidad del sistema sanitario, la cobertura, la eficiencia del gasto y su vinculación al sistema de patentes farmacéuticas. En este marco, el sistema de patentes ...

Primary Health Care attributes in the context of indigenous health

Rev. bras. enferm; 73 (5), 2020
ABSTRACT Objectives: to assess the attributes of Primary Health Care from the perspective of health professionals, comparing services in the Special Indigenous Health District and the Municipal Health Offices. Methods: a cross-sectional study in the Upper Rio Negro region, State of Amazonas, with 116 p...