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Mental health in primary health care: health-disease according to health profes...
Barros,Sônia; Nóbrega,Maria do Perpétuo Socorro de Sousa; Santos,Jussara Carvalho dos; Fonseca,Laís Mariana da; Floriano,Lara Simone MessiasABSTRACT Objective: to analyze perceptions of the Family Health Strategy (FHS) professional team about mental health-disorder and to identify health actions developed by the team for people with mental disorders. Method: a qualitative study of a Marxist theoretical framework and a dialectical method. 99 FHS middle and higher level professionals from São Paulo participated. Semi-structured interviews were conduc...
Developing the health workforce for universal health coverage
Cometto, Giorgio; Buchan, James; Dussault, GillesOptimizing the management of the health workforce is necessary for the progressive realization of universal health coverage. Here we discuss the six main action fields in health workforce management as identified by the Human Resources for Health Action Framework: leadership; finance; policy; education; partnership; and human resources management systems. We also identify and describe examples of effective prac...
Portugal:
de Almeida Simoes, Jorge; Augusto, Goncalo Figueiredo; Fronteira, Ines; Hernandez-Quevedo, CristinaThis analysis of the Portuguese health system reviews recent developments in organization and governance, health financing, health care provision, health reforms and health system performance. Overall health indicators such as life expectancy at birth and at age 65 years have shown a notable improvement over the last decades. However, these improvements have not been followed at the same pace by other important...
Mental health care situation in family health units: perceptions of community h...
Souza,Jacqueline de; Assad,Francine Baltazar; Barbosa,Sara Pinto; Badagnan,Heloisa França; Almeida,Letícia Yamawaka de; Garla,Caroline ClapisThis was a qualitative, descriptive study, performed with 17 Community Health Agents. The aim was to analyze the perception of these professionals regarding the most frequent mental health cases in the region. Data was collected through observation of the region and two focus groups. We used the structuralist perspective for the analysis. The results showed that these professionals perceived mental health deman...
Public Health workforce development
Qadiri, Tahani; Paulo, MaríliaPublisher Copyright: © (2023), (European Publishing). All Rights Reserved.; Background: Health workforce and public health specialists are the cornerstones of any developed health system, as evidenced by the countries’ management of the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for public health competences and urgency of health workforce innovation. Methods: This is a review of healthca...
Public Health workforce development
Qadiri, Tahani; Paulo, MaríliaPublisher Copyright: © (2023), (European Publishing). All Rights Reserved.; Background: Health workforce and public health specialists are the cornerstones of any developed health system, as evidenced by the countries’ management of the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for public health competences and urgency of health workforce innovation. Methods: This is a review of healthca...
Embodying 'health citizenship' in health knowledge to fight health inequalities
Groleau,DanielleThis paper wishes to contribute to the debate around citizen participation in health system decision-making that has been present internationally for the last 30 years. I argue that if we aim to change health inequalities, health professionals and planners need to understand the illness and health service experience of citizens. The concept of 'health citizenship' introduced here refers to health knowledge that...
Building a Health Literacy Indicator from Angola Demographic and Health Survey ...
Ramos, Neida Neto Vicente; Fronteira, Inês; Martins, Maria Rosário OliveiraFunding Information: We selected information from 19,785 adults aged 15–49 years old who responded to the survey. Data were collected between October 2015 and March 2016. The survey was conducted in all Angola provinces in Portuguese [25]. The use and dissemination of the data was authorized by the Demographic and Health Surveys program [24]. DHS surveys in Angola are funded by the United States Agency for Inte...
Oral Health in Brazil - Part I: public oral health policies
Junqueira, Simone Rennó; Pannuti, Cláudio Mendes; Rode, Sigmar De Mello [UNESP]Made available in DSpace on 2021-07-14T10:50:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-08. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2021-07-14T11:39:22Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 S1806-83242008000500003.pdf: 168129 bytes, checksum: f5d862a7dc97332f48b548b60025844e (MD5); This paper reviews the historical development of public health policies in Brazil and the insertion of oral health in this context. Since 1988, Br...
Public health nursing: regulation and public health policies
Cunha,Carmen Maria dos Santos Lopes Monteiro da; Henriques,Maria Adriana Pereira; Costa,Andreia Cátia Jorge SilvaABSTRACT Objective: To analyze regulation and public policies related to nursing and the specialist nurse in community and public health nursing. Methods: Analysis of the legal and normative framework of community and public health nursing in Portugal, as well as current public health policies, regarding the competences and intervention of this nurse, articulated with the attributions of the Public Health Unit....