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Objectives. We evaluated the effects of the Family Health Program (FHP), a strategy for reorganization of primary health care at a nationwide level in Brazil, on infant mortality at a municipality level....

The Information and Communication Technologies are used in all areas of human activity. In health they have encouraged researches that seek improvements in the quality of health care and professional training through continuing education. One strategy that the Ministry of Health ...

There is a clear reported association between social disparity and oral health, for example, between dental caries and malnutrition in children. This fact is detected in several studies, and also found amongst the Brazilian population. However, several efforts have been made to i...

The Family Health Program (FHP) is not an additional strategy in the organization of services, but rather a substitute proposal for rearrangement of the basic health care model. This strategy aims to meet the principles of the Brazilian Public Health System (SUS), addressing heal...

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health care services based from primary care. To become effective, health care workers should commit to the program by restructuring the work process, making it feasible to develop health care practices that meet the needs of the population. This should be performed through acts ...

Health education involves different conceptions of health, education and human being according to witch two health education practices are defined: the hegemonic and the dialogical. The first one aims at the prevention of disease through the transfer of biomedical contents for re...

The objective of this study is to evaluate the implantation of family health teams (FHTs) in the State of São Paulo (SSP), Brazil, during the period 1996-2001. Secondary data from the SSP obtained through a national survey carried out by the Ministry of Health in 2001-2202 were u...

Brazil still has a National Health System unable to meet the needs of the population. Since the year 2001 the city of São Paulo established the Family Health Care Program as a structural strategy for the municipal health system. The hypothesis of this research is that the Family ...

This study has investigated the educational practices developed by nurses within the Family Health Team. The nursing profession in Brazil was marked, since its origin, as responsible for the actions of health education. In the work process of teams of family health, educational a...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of physical and mental aggravation in elderly people, focusing on their quality of life, functional capability, religiosity, physical and mental health, and socio-demographic aspects. Eighty-two subjects, age 60 or older, were ...

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To provide insights for nutrition and public health practitioners on how to engage with other sectors to achieve public health goals. Specifically, this study provides lessons from the example of integrating family farming and a nutrition into a legal framewo...

The Brazilian Family Health Program (Programa de Saúde da Família PSF) is considered by the Ministry of Health as a primordial strategy for organizing Primary Healthcare within the Unifed Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde SUS), so that the assistance offered to users is made ...

The Health Promotion represents a new paradigm for the caring structure and the health services organization aiming to overcome the purely curative practices for those that work with the determinants of the health-illness process. Based on this, the actions to educate are not sep...

The introduction of Mental Health Team (MHT) in the Family Health Program (FHP) is recent and restricted to a few places. The knowledge about MHT activities in the FHP is limited and so are the Community Health Agents (CHA) actions in mental health area. From this perspective, th...

What influence Family Health Program‟ (in portuguese, Programa Saúde da Família, or PSF) had on Brazilian states in their attempt to achieve the Millennium Development Goals - especially on reducing infant mortality until 2015? In 2000, the United Nations along with global ...

Since the XX century, the models of organization of the Health System in Brazil obey to the logic of the unique cause paradigm of the modern medicine, directing his activities in consonance with the expectations of the dominant classes, on different politic contexts. The techniqu...

This is a study of case with qualitative and quantitative approach. It has as objective the description of the historical description and the evaluation of the Family Health Program (FHP) expansion process in a South of Brazil city, occurred between December of 2002 and December ...

Introduction: Uterine cervical cancer (UCC) is the second most common malignancy among women in Brazil, the main strategy for early detection of premalignant lesions is the cytopathology. Despite the existence of the screening program there was no reduction in the incidence and m...

In Brazil, the study of home health care of people with disabilities and dependency and their caregivers is growing in importance due to demographic and epidemiological changes in the country. With the introduction of the Family Health Program, the registration of families in Pri...

The process of transformation of the actions in the field of the mental health in Brazil has been configuring as a great challenge. The multiple meanings of the madness, the concepts of health-disea se, the models of organization of the net of health, the distribution of resource...