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Evaluation In Health: Reflections Inscribed In The Paradigm Of Contemporary Health, G Da Costa, R Cotta, S Franceschini, R Batista, A Gomes, P Martins, M Ferreira Dec 2009

Evaluation In Health: Reflections Inscribed In The Paradigm Of Contemporary Health, G Da Costa, R Cotta, S Franceschini, R Batista, A Gomes, P Martins, M Ferreira

English

Objectives: To analyze the methods of health evaluation from the point of view of users' needs and the care perspective.


Development And Health: Looking For A New Utopia, C Gadelha Dec 2009

Development And Health: Looking For A New Utopia, C Gadelha

English

Objectives: To present a theoretical and political debate on health reform in Brazil, as well as proposing a new agenda around its objectives in the context of globalization, the re-positioning of the situation of dependence and backwardness in the field of health.


The Care Experience In The Family Health Program (Psf): Potentials And Limits, A Uchôa Dec 2009

The Care Experience In The Family Health Program (Psf): Potentials And Limits, A Uchôa

English

Objectives: To describe the comprehensiveness of care, and discuss the role of creativity and sensitivity of health professionals in the Family Health Program, and analyze the possibilities of institutionalization and sustainability in Natal, Brazil between 2005 and 2007.


Candidates Emerge To Succeed Brazilian President Lula, Ladb Staff Dec 2009

Candidates Emerge To Succeed Brazilian President Lula, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


A Review Of Studies Of Gastrointestinal Diseases. In Search Of New Alternatives To The Analysis Of Health/Illness Processes, A Sy Nov 2009

A Review Of Studies Of Gastrointestinal Diseases. In Search Of New Alternatives To The Analysis Of Health/Illness Processes, A Sy

English

Objectives: To present the outcomes of a revised study of intestinal parasites from different disciplines, and to describe their treatment and explore new alternatives to their approach on the Mbya-Guaraní population of the Amazon River basin, Brazil.


The Public And The Private: Insurers And Medical Attention In Mexico, S Tamez, C Bodek, C Eibenschutz Nov 2009

The Public And The Private: Insurers And Medical Attention In Mexico, S Tamez, C Bodek, C Eibenschutz

English

Objectives: To analyze the evolution of private health insurance in Mexico during from 1986-1992, compared with the development of the insurance industry in Chile, Brazil and Argentina.


Medical Education As A Pedagogy Of Resistance, O Pereira, T Almeida Nov 2009

Medical Education As A Pedagogy Of Resistance, O Pereira, T Almeida

English

Objectives: To discuss the principles and practices of medical education in Latin America starting from the description of the reductionist model, and then to present guidelines for an alternative proposal for medical education in Brazil.


Revisiting "The Question Of Democracy In The Area Of Health" : Almost 30 Years Later, S Fleury Nov 2009

Revisiting "The Question Of Democracy In The Area Of Health" : Almost 30 Years Later, S Fleury

English

Objectives: To examine and evaluate a key document written almost 30 years ago on the state's Health Reform Movement in Brazil.


The Saga Of Social Sciences In The Area Of Collective Health, M Loyola Nov 2009

The Saga Of Social Sciences In The Area Of Collective Health, M Loyola

English

Objectives: To describe the situation of social sciences in the field of collective health as well as to expose the involvement of two agencies in promoting scientific research in Brazil.


The State, Agencies And Health, R Nogueira Nov 2009

The State, Agencies And Health, R Nogueira

English

Objectives: To describe and discuss the scope of institutional, legal and technical attributions of regulatory health agencies in Brazil.


Psychiatric Reform And Psychosocial Rehabilitation: A Reading From Dialectical Materialism, A Hirdes Nov 2009

Psychiatric Reform And Psychosocial Rehabilitation: A Reading From Dialectical Materialism, A Hirdes

English

Objectives: To reflect on the issue of the Psychiatric Reform and psychosocial rehabilitation in Brazil, from dialectical materialism.


Francisca Praguer Fróes: Medicine, Gender And Power In The Trajectory Of A Doctor In Bahía (1872-1931), E Rago Nov 2009

Francisca Praguer Fróes: Medicine, Gender And Power In The Trajectory Of A Doctor In Bahía (1872-1931), E Rago

English

Objectives: To describe the career and contributions of Francisca Praguer Fróes to the study of medicine, gender and power in Brazil.


New Social Practices In The Constitution Of The Right To Health: An Experience Of A Community Herbal Medicine Movement, F Guizardi, R Pinheiro Nov 2009

New Social Practices In The Constitution Of The Right To Health: An Experience Of A Community Herbal Medicine Movement, F Guizardi, R Pinheiro

English

Objectives: To analyze the movement of community herbal pharmacies that belongs to Pastoral on Health from Brazil, under the framework of the right to health constitution.


Patterns Of Sectoral Accumulation: Economy And Services In Contemporary Transformations Of Health, M F. Andreazzi, G D. Kornis Nov 2009

Patterns Of Sectoral Accumulation: Economy And Services In Contemporary Transformations Of Health, M F. Andreazzi, G D. Kornis

English

Objectives: To take elements of analysis from the economic reproduction of capitalist societies' frame and to discuss the changes in the process of accumulation of capital in the Brazilian health sector.


Health, Development And Globalization, E Gallo, J De Castro, J Costa, V Studart, S Wilecke Nov 2009

Health, Development And Globalization, E Gallo, J De Castro, J Costa, V Studart, S Wilecke

English

Objectives: To identify how Brazil has been addressed in the concepts of development and globalization from the perspective of health policy and to describe their relationship to regional and foreign economic policy and the challenges arising from it.


The Crisis Of Domination In The System Of Public Health, A Ayala Nov 2009

The Crisis Of Domination In The System Of Public Health, A Ayala

English

Objectives: To examine the weaknesses of the mechanisms of domination/control of public health institutions in Brazil over their workers and the population as much as to describe their forms of coercion.


Environmentalists, Church Protest Brazilian Government's Land Decree, Ladb Staff Aug 2009

Environmentalists, Church Protest Brazilian Government's Land Decree, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Paraguay: Itaipu Dispute Could Go To International Arbitration, Andres Gaudin Jun 2009

Paraguay: Itaipu Dispute Could Go To International Arbitration, Andres Gaudin

NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America

After four rounds of negotiations aimed at reaching an agreement on economic and political differences regarding their joint operation of the world's largest hydroelectric dam, the governments of Paraguay and Brazil have not found common ground, and the situation could lead to the least desirable of all options--submitting the matter to international arbitration. "We are looking at a huge paradox. Before Presidents Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva [Brazil] and Fernando Lugo [Paraguay] were in office, both agreed that the 1973 treaty initiating the huge Itaipu project needed revising because it established unequal treatment that was obviously damaging to Paraguay. Now, …


Brazilan Court Hands Down Historic Ruling Regarding Indigenous Lands, Ladb Staff Apr 2009

Brazilan Court Hands Down Historic Ruling Regarding Indigenous Lands, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Home Care In Supplementary Health: A Device Of Positive Reconstruction, T Franco, E Merhy Mar 2009

Home Care In Supplementary Health: A Device Of Positive Reconstruction, T Franco, E Merhy

English

Objective: Understanding how home health care is delivered in the Home Health Care Program' (PAD) as supplementary health care and to verify the relations between the team, the beneficiaries and family members.'


Mental Health Activities In The Program Of Family Health: Congruencies And Difficulties Of Practicing The Principles Of Psychiatric Reform And Health, M Nunes, V Jucá, C Valentim Mar 2009

Mental Health Activities In The Program Of Family Health: Congruencies And Difficulties Of Practicing The Principles Of Psychiatric Reform And Health, M Nunes, V Jucá, C Valentim

English

Objectives: To discuss linkages between the Psychiatric Reform and the Health Reform in Brazil by analyzing the practices of mental health care in the Family Health Program (PSF, in Portuguese).


Violence And Gender: Marked Victims, C Sarti, R Barbosa, M Suarez Mar 2009

Violence And Gender: Marked Victims, C Sarti, R Barbosa, M Suarez

English

Objectives: This paper aims to raise questions about the institutional assistance to violence within the health field, particularly on the topic "sexual violence."


World Social Forum Examines Environmental Changes In Amazon, Ladb Staff Feb 2009

World Social Forum Examines Environmental Changes In Amazon, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Municipal Elections, Economic Crisis Cloud Future For Brazil's Lula, Ladb Staff Jan 2009

Municipal Elections, Economic Crisis Cloud Future For Brazil's Lula, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

No abstract provided.