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Objective: To map, from the literature, health systems and services worldwide, characterizing them as to the type of social protection, service provision, organizational structure of the PHC and origin of financing. Methods: This is a Scoping Review of databases: Virtual Health Library, Embase, ProQuest, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health and Scientific Electronic Library Online. The descriptors and their combinations were used Health Systems, Health Services, Structure of Services and Primary Health Care, between 2009 and 2019, available in Spanish, French, English, Portuguese. They were analyzed considering study objectives, type of social protection, service provision, structure and organization of Primary Health Care and financing. Results: Twelve studies that followed the research proposal were included. The systems shown are related to the countries Iraq, Ecuador, Denmark, Argentina, Netherlands, Canada, Ireland, Belgium, France, Sweden, United Kingdom and Italy. Conclusion: Among the health systems and services of the analyzed countries, some are guided by the market model, others by the public offer of health care and there are those that integrate the two models. Health systems must offer services that reach the entire population, organized based on Primary Health Care. Those who adopt the social security model are the closest to this scenario. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to rescue the historical moment in which hydrographic basins turn out to be considered as spatial units for planning and regionalization of the territory. Hydrographic basins have scientifically been chosen as structure of morphological differentiation of the Earth's crust since the seventeenth century pari passu the migration of the world-system of the Mediterranean up to Northern Europe in a time of effective imperialist struggle between France and Great Britain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article exemplifies what is here understood as a political activity of Judiciary with recent changes on three different legal systems of judicial review around the world. At first, some notions of the political and its dimension on constitutional adjudication are presented. Next, changes on the the judicial review system of three foreign experiences are shown, in order to suggest that the judiciary has assumed a central role regarding decision-making on political issues (in particular, by strenghtening its jurisdiction on judicial review). The relationship between the political activity and the foreign experiences is done for these changes seems to represent something relevant that has been happening on adjudication, which is not exclusive of the Brazilian legal and political scenario. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]