The decline in the infant mortality rate is a Brazilian achievement, but 70% of these deaths are considered avoidable, and the practices of evaluation and monitoring of health policies and programs are still incipient. This research aimed at analyzing the applicability of the Case Management methodology to vulnerable pregnant women in relation to infant mortality. It consisted of a population-based cohort study...
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With the exponential growth of international travel over the last decades, the question of travellers’ health has taken on a crucial importance. International tourism, occupational travel and migratory fluxes have all contributed to this phenomenon which has drawn the attention of international organizations and national authorities on the risks associated with the spread of infectious diseases. The increasing ...
Brazil’s Unified Health System (SUS), based on guidelines for decentralization, integrality and community participation, consists of a set of health actions and services, organized at increasing levels of complexity. Within the scope of social control of public health, the Law nº 8.142/90 (3) which establishes the principles of participation and social control envisages two collegiate bodies: the Health C...
Objective: To carry out an evaluability study of the strategic action plan to tackle noncommunicable diseases in Brazil (2011-2022) (DCNT Plan) in its component of the risk factor related to tobacco. Methods: Descriptive evaluability study using secondary data and documentary analysis of the strategic action plan to tackle noncommunicable diseases in Brazil (2011-2022), in the context of the tobacco risk factor...
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Objective: to evaluate the achievement of targets for mortality rates and prevalence of exposure to risk and protection factors defined in the Strategic Action Plan for Coping with Noncommunicable Diseases in Brazil, 2011-2022. Methods: evaluative study, analyzing trends in mortality and risk factors for NCD according to data from the Global Burden of Disease and the Vigitel survey. Linear regression and it was...
The Project Office of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation Presidency aims to support the contracting and execution of national and international technical cooperation (TCs) projects, which are aligned with the guidelines of Fiocruz and the system Unified Health System (UHS). This article aims to present a descriptive characterization of the projects managed by the POP with a view to knowing which public, thematic and f...
Objective: to analyze the challenges in the formation of the workforce, emphasison the medical category, that respond to the new needs generated by the demographic, epidemiological transition, by the new technological incorporations and demands of the users of the health services in Portuguese speaking countries. Methods: the paper based on literature review, the reading of the preparatory documents for t...