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New juridical needs linked to the National Health System (SUS) in Brazil during the pandemic forward significant cases for the analysis of the national public health during the period. Through urgency tutelages which demanded the transference of SARS-CoV-2 infected people to Intensive Care Therapy, current paper analyzes aspects of juridical decisions in the health area during the pandemic. Juridical demand and the deferment or not of demands are analytic sources to understand the state of the Brazilian health system couple to the usefulness of these decisions within the same context and to identify important aspects on the situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to present an ex-post analysis of industrial and science, technology and innovation (sti) policies to the Health Industrial Complex, between 2003-2017 in Brazil, from the perspective of the public health value. We concluded that the intention to meet social health needs was present in the policies' design, however, the lack of objectivity and clarity in their definitions made it difficult to articulate the three fields of policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Agrochemicals are chemical products used in agricultural and stock breeding programs. Since they are products which endanger the environment, they are regulated by specific norms. Brazil is one of the biggest agricultural and stock breeding producers with the highest rates of pesticides. The number of agrochemicals registered in Brazil has greatly increased during the last years, but regulating norms remained unaltered. Normative and policy changes occurred which made flexible registers and increased uses. Current paper analyzes present norms and verifies the occurrence of flexibilization by quality research with a review of the literature and documents. Results show that there was an increase in the number of registers and the employment of agrochemicals, many of which have been prohibited in Europe. Flexibilization occurred by political and economical decisions without taking into account issues of public health and environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Leptospirosis is one of the waterborne diseases that strongly concern the health in Brazil. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to identify, analyze, and describe the socioeconomic, environmental, and climatic factors that can be directly related to the increase of the leptospirosis cases. In addition, the present study carried out a temporal and spatial analysis to demonstrate the relationship between publications and cases-deaths in Brazil. By searching the databases of the CAPES and LILACS, we selected 43 papers that dealt with leptospirosis and flood in Brazil. Most of the evaluated papers related the occurrence of extreme hydrological events to the increase in the number of cases of leptospirosis. The others focused other factors such as waste accumulation, lack of urban drainage, working services, and so on. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a detailed analysis of how health information was shared and discussed on Twitter in terms of awareness and opinions during the 2017 Yellow Fever outbreak in Brazil. For this, the data mining approach with exploratory graph analysis was performed. As main results, Twitter activity peaks were identified compared to peaks of cases reported in some regions of the country, an analysis of hashtags linked to the main subject and different topics from the exploratory analysis of graphs such as vaccination campaign, feelings, prevention, rumors, other diseases linked to the same transmitter, among others. This study illustrates that social networks, such as Twitter, offer unique opportunities for participatory surveillance, which can assist in monitoring some aspects of public health and offer additional data to health managers on how people interact during an outbreak. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to discuss how the public budget and the model of basic attention in public health could affect the infant mortality rates in a certain territory. The research was carried out in the Southern Coastal Territory of Bahia, in the State of Bahia, Northeast Region of Brazil. It is a quantitative and descriptive investigation, based on secondary data referring to the period from 2006 to 2015, collected between 2017 and 2018 in official Brazilian public data banks. It was verified that, although the average rate of infant mortality fell gradually from 2006 in the territory, it is still higher than the national average within the investigated period. In 2006, the average rate of the territory was 35.53% and decreased to 18.56% in 2015. However, throughout the period the average rate remained higher than the Brazilian average, which is 18%. Infant mortality rates have a strong relationship with social, economic, and environmental factors. In the case investigated, they are associated with the fragmentation and fragility of public health service networks in the municipalities of the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this study is to verify the impact of federal funding on actions to combat dengue in Brazil. The paper tests the hypothesis that an improvement in dengue epidemiological surveillance actions, a result of increased government funding, reduces reported cases of the disease in the municipalities. Methodologically, the work uses a diff-in-diff model and the evidence suggests that the dengue vector control program, through community-level epidemiological monitoring, is effective as a tool for to reduce the cases of the disease, also presents strong heterogeneity in the response between the regions of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The historical museums, such as the monuments, have been understood as images the societies produce for the future. However, this concept of museums as maintainers and guardians of the memory of a community or a locality is been revised. The city of Londrina, even though fairly new, preserves by various means a praise of the memory of certain groups, called 'pioneers'. The challenging of such memorial practices and inclusion of new actors is quite controversial and costly. Thus, this paper aims to reflect on the representations of women in the language of the Historical Museum of Londrina. To this end, it is proposed to analyze a temporary exhibition placed in that Museum: "Caring, Healing, Remember - memory of the health in Londrina." Therefore, we will investigate what (s) language (s) the MHL aligns to and presents itself for the public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, found in human microbiota, in certain circumstances may cause simple through serious infections, and is counted as the most virulent in its genus. Its enormous capacity of adaptation and resistance to majority of antimicrobials, place it among the most important group in nosocomial infections. The quantity of nosocomial infections is increasing every day, generating a treatment cost three times bigger than in patients without infection and is defined by Healthy Ministry as infections acquired after patient admission in the hospital and that manifest during internment or after discharge from hospital, when could be related to internment or nosocomial procedures. This paper is a bibliographic revision of last five years, based on main electronic libraries and databases of the world, about Staphylococcus aureus, with the purpose of update healthy professionals and identify the importance of its methicillin-resistant form in nosocomial infections. Human and financial costs and prevention steps against this agent were also approached, objectifying put in relief the necessity of developing of new antibiotics and investment in new researches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Secretary of Health State of Minas Gerais, with the support of the Ministry of Health, have been making extensive effort to universalize the primary health care, given its strategic role in the formation the networks of the health care in the Unique Health System (SUS). Therefore, began to encourage the adoption of the Family Health Teams through of the "Program Structuring Health at Home". Associated with this program, was created the Master Plan of the Primary Health Care (PDAPS), whose goal it's provide an instrument to territorial planning and management of these service, qualifying them to fulfill the role as gateway of the network of the health in the SUS. The aim of this paper is discuss the territorial planning of the primary health care and the networks of the health care the SUS in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The hypothetical premise of the discussion is the existential interdependence between primary health care, networks and the territory. The methodology is based on a theoretical study and descriptive, on one side, and a theorical analysis and critical, of another. Therefore, have a dimension of discovery of the relationship between networks, territory and primary health care, on one side, and a dimension of note about the ways how this is being planned, of another. The results indicate improvements in the construction of networks in Minas Gerais, but there are also theoretical issues and methodological that needs to be addressed, especially on the forms of territorial definition of the services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through a literature review this paper sought the types and causes of injuries more frequent in the elderly also addressing how care is delivered in health in the country to that specific group. In recent decade the elderly population has increased considerably, and consequently accidents with trauma has been growing significantly in this age group. Thus, it is necessary for health professionals to adopt preventive measures that can avoid the trauma and thus reduce morbidity and mortality among this population. The decline is greatest among the mechanisms of trauma in the elderly. Furthermore, the clinical picture and the recovery of these patients require special conditions, since they have different characteristics from other age groups, so greater knowledge and expertise of professionals who will act in compliance with this elderly population is necessary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The dermatophytes are a group of fungi that penetrate the stratum corneum invading the skin, hair and nails, using keratin as a substrate, causing infections in humans and animals known as dermatophytosis. It is a common occurrence these fungal infections in tropical countries, constituting a public health problem. A retrospective analysis of mycological tests on samples received in mycology section of the Biological Research Institute / Central Laboratory of the State / State Foundation for Production and Research in Health / Rio Grande do Sul (IPB - LACEN / FEPPS / RS), originating from health centers in Porto Alegre metropolitan areas and the state during the period 2007 to 2011. Statistical data were obtained using the software PASW Statistics 18, measures were used associations applying the Fisher exact test. Thus, this paper aims to contribute to the distribution of the most frequent etiological agents, is of great importance to investigate the prevalence of these cities in Rio Grande do Sul, in order to portray the epidemiological reality of dermatophytosis in the state, contributing to the realization of public health measures. Of the 6452 samples, 2342 were positive for dermatophytes. Among them T. rubrum was the most prevalent species (72.70%), followed by T. mentagrophytes (22.44%), M. gypseum (1.99%), M. canis (1.39%), E. floccosum (1.30%). Presenting a case for T. shoenleinii and a case for T. tonsurans (0.09%). The anatomical site were more infected toenails with 1,248 (53.23%) cases. Females were more affected. Through this study, we characterize the species of dermatophyte dermatophytosis more involved in our state, noting that the species Trichophyton rubrum is the most cosmopolitan of this fungal group, followed by Trichophyton mentagrophytes, Microsporum gypseum, Microsporum canis, Ephydermophyton floccosun, Trichophyton tonsurans and T. shoenleinii. M. canis was the most frequent species in samples of scalp. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]