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The Effects Of The Transformations Of The Public Health System On Equality In Mexico, 1995-2002, N Linares, O López Dec 2009

The Effects Of The Transformations Of The Public Health System On Equality In Mexico, 1995-2002, N Linares, O López

English

Objectives: To identify the possible effects of reform interventions' on health equity in the states of Mexico between 1995 and 2002 and to analyze the characteristics of the inequalities and inequities in health.'


Brazilian Health Reform: Dilemmas Between The Instituting And The Instituted, S Fleury Dec 2009

Brazilian Health Reform: Dilemmas Between The Instituting And The Instituted, S Fleury

English

Objectives: To present the history of social policies in Brazil and to identify the existing social protection model in each of its stages.


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.


The Complexity Of The Collective Health Field: Multidisciplinarity, Interdisciplinarityy And Transdiciplinarity Of Knowledge And Practice --A Socio-Historical Analysis Of A Paradigmatic Trajectory, L Madel Dec 2009

The Complexity Of The Collective Health Field: Multidisciplinarity, Interdisciplinarityy And Transdiciplinarity Of Knowledge And Practice --A Socio-Historical Analysis Of A Paradigmatic Trajectory, L Madel

English

Objectives: To examine the interaction between the paradigms of multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in the field of Collective Health, as well as describe their knowledge bases and practices and examine trends in the production of disciplinary knowledge and intervention.


Finance Capital Versus The Medical-Industrial Complex: The Challenges Of Regulatory Agencies, C Iriart Dec 2009

Finance Capital Versus The Medical-Industrial Complex: The Challenges Of Regulatory Agencies, C Iriart

English

Objectives: To present the socio-economic structural processes consolidated in the late 90's under the hegemony of financial capital; the disputes between the financial capital that operate in health and the medical-industrial complex; the strategies used by the later to win ground and consolidate its power; and finally, the challenges this poses to the regulatory agencies.


Brazilian Health Reform And The Single Health System: Dialogues With Concurrent Hypothesis, J Paim Dec 2009

Brazilian Health Reform And The Single Health System: Dialogues With Concurrent Hypothesis, J Paim

English

Objectives: To analyze the emergence of the development of health reform in a capitalist context, to describe the rationale and characteristics as well as discuss the challenges of their practice.


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.


Social Medicine Before The Report Of The Commission Of Social Health Determinants, World Health Organization, R González Dec 2009

Social Medicine Before The Report Of The Commission Of Social Health Determinants, World Health Organization, R González

English

Objective: To review the contributions of the work of the International Workshop "Social Determinants of Health", organized by the Latin American Social Medicine Association in 2008.


Inequality And Social Policies Produce Erroneous Inequality In Mexico, C Eibenschutz, S Támez, I Camacho Dec 2009

Inequality And Social Policies Produce Erroneous Inequality In Mexico, C Eibenschutz, S Támez, I Camacho

English

Objectives: To discuss the concepts of equity and inequality in health care, and to identify its undifferentiated use, as well as to review the degree of social inequality and health inequity that exist in Mexico.


Brazilian Health Reform After 20 Years Of The Unified Health System: Reflections, A Cohn Dec 2009

Brazilian Health Reform After 20 Years Of The Unified Health System: Reflections, A Cohn

English

Objectives: To present some thoughts on the challenges of implementing the Unified Health System 20 years after its creation, and to describe its constitutional guidelines in the area of health in Brazil


Innovations In Local Health Care Management: An Approximation From The Case Of The Municipality Of Rosario From 1995-2000, C Jiménez Dec 2009

Innovations In Local Health Care Management: An Approximation From The Case Of The Municipality Of Rosario From 1995-2000, C Jiménez

English

Objectives: To analyze health policies implemented by the municipality of Rosario in the 1990s and to describe their actions from the incorporation of policy innovations at the levels of care, management and financing in 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.


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 Invisibility Of The Care Of The Chronically Ill. A Qualatitive Study In The Neighborhood Of Oblatos, L Robles Nov 2009

The Invisibility Of The Care Of The Chronically Ill. A Qualatitive Study In The Neighborhood Of Oblatos, L Robles

English

Objectives: To analyze the organization of care for chronic conditions and the use of disciplinary devices in a context of urban poverty in Mexico, with emphasis on the involvement of female care givers.


The Relationship Between Care And Aging: Between Survival And Social Devaluation, L Robles Nov 2009

The Relationship Between Care And Aging: Between Survival And Social Devaluation, L Robles

English

Objectives: To analyze and characterize the care of poverty-stricken elderly as an avenue for their social devaluation


The Other Migration: Internal Displacement In Chiapas And Health, V Ríos, A Gasca, R Urbina Nov 2009

The Other Migration: Internal Displacement In Chiapas And Health, V Ríos, A Gasca, R Urbina

English

Objectives: To analyze the forced displacement of people in Chiapas for political reasons and to describe the health impacts on the impacted populations.


Community Medicine. Introduction To A Critical Analysis, J Silva Nov 2009

Community Medicine. Introduction To A Critical Analysis, J Silva

English

Objectives: To discuss the evolution of the concept of "community" and to analyze associated expressions like "community health" and "community medicine," related to proposals of integrative and preventive medicine.


The Collective Satisfaction Of Food/Nutrition Needs And Their Relationship With Health-Disease, J Rivera Nov 2009

The Collective Satisfaction Of Food/Nutrition Needs And Their Relationship With Health-Disease, J Rivera

English

Objectives: To analyze and describe criteria related to collective satisfaction of the needs of food-nutrition, and discuss its relationship to the health and disease processes.


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.


The Colombian Health Model: Exportable As A Function Of The Market Interests, M Torres Nov 2009

The Colombian Health Model: Exportable As A Function Of The Market Interests, M Torres

English

Objectives: To describe aspects of the structure, financing and operation of the Colombian health system and the results obtained after 14 years of implementation.


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.


Diverging Roads For Social Protection In Health In Mexico, O López, J Blanco Nov 2009

Diverging Roads For Social Protection In Health In Mexico, O López, J Blanco

English

Objectives: To compare the content, actions and major areas of tension between national and local health policies in Mexico between 1994 and 2006.


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 Strategy Of Primary Health Care: Progression Or Regression In The Right To Health?, I Ase, J Burijovich Nov 2009

The Strategy Of Primary Health Care: Progression Or Regression In The Right To Health?, I Ase, J Burijovich

English

Objectives: To analyze the tensions between Primary Health Care and the approach of the Right to Health, from the new legislation applied in the province of Cordoba, Argentina.


Post-Graduation In Collective Health In Brazil: History And Perspectives, E Nunes Nov 2009

Post-Graduation In Collective Health In Brazil: History And Perspectives, E Nunes

English

Objectives: To describe the theoretical shape of the field of Collective Health 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.


Health Reforms In Mexico City. 2000-2006, A Laurell Nov 2009

Health Reforms In Mexico City. 2000-2006, A Laurell

English

Objectives: To describe the reform applied to the health system of Mexico City between 2000 and 2006 and to present their results.


Politicization Of Health Care And The Health Care Work Process: Knowing How To Give Better Health Care, To Treat To Confront, To Treat For Emancipation, M R. Pires Nov 2009

Politicization Of Health Care And The Health Care Work Process: Knowing How To Give Better Health Care, To Treat To Confront, To Treat For Emancipation, M R. Pires

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Objectives: To indicate the applicability of the politicization of care on the job process of health professionals, emphasizing their emancipatory abilities.