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Children and adolescents are vulnerable to mental health problems, but often only individual issues are considered in their determination. This study aimed to know the perception of professionals about the social determinants of child and adolescent mental health. This is qualitative research that counted with the participation of seven professionals. For data collection, semi-structured interviews were conducted and analyzed according to the assumptions of thematic analysis. The participants showed a broad understanding of health, incorporating in its conceptualization other issues seen as related to being healthy or getting sick. It was identified that the social and living conditions affect the mental health of children and teenagers. In the participants' evaluation, the professional practice is always "drying ice". The findings reveal the perception of professionals about social determinants for the mental health of children and adolescents, suggesting the need to consider their impact on clinical management and organization of care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction As coronavirus pandemic burst in Spain in March 2020, Zamudio Hospital -a monographic psychiatric institution- was urged to create an specific Covid unit. It was destined to patients with psychiatric admission criteria, who in addition oscillated between positive asymptomatics or with mild symptoms to suspect cases or close contacts. Objectives To describe and analyse the characteristics of the unit and the patients who were admitted during the confinement period by Covid-19, between March 14th and June 21st 2020. Methods The patients’ data were collected retrospectively. These data included: age; sex; admission criteria; diagnosis at discharge; confirmed/ suspected/contact case; presence/absence of symptoms; length of hospital stay; number of doctor on call assessment. Results An area within the hospital wards was reserved to COVID cases / suspected / contact patients requiring psychiatric care. The storing of material and PPE was held in the forementioned area, according to protocolary measures. 26 Patients (11 women and 15 men) were admitted to the unit. Mean age was 44 years old. Diagnosis at discharge were mainly Schizophrenia (31%), Schizoaffective disorder (23%), other psicosis (11,5%) and Bipolar disorder (8%). The mean hospital stay was 5 days. There were a total of 7 confirmed positive cases, all with asyptomatic-mild course. Conclusions The establishment of this unit has ensured a proper psychiatric care and a strict control of Covid-19 transmission within patients and staff members.

Objectives: This study aimed to analyze the development stage of the oral health care network of the Brazilian Unified Health System in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive and analytical study was conducted with 205 municipal oral health coordinators from the state. Data collection was carried out through a validated questionnaire to analyze the state of development of the oral health care network. Descriptive and cluster analysis were performed, and two clusters were generated.Results: The total median score of the questionnaires classified Minas Gerais as a state with incipient oral health care networks and a minimal capacity to operate such networks, reflected in the predominance of cluster 1 in the sample. There was no statistical association between age, time since graduation, and time spent working as a coordinator and the clusters (Mann-Whitney test). The coordinators' gender and educational level were also not statistically associated with the clusters (Pearson's chi-square and Fisher's exact, respectively).Conclusion: There is a great need to improve the organization of services of the oral health care network in Minas Gerais. This can be done through improvements in its operational structure, as well as investment in management training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

INTRODUCCIÓN. Cerca del 15 % de los traumatismos torácicos requieren intervención quirúrgica y el 85 % puede ser tratado con procedimientos sencillos: observación, tubo de toracostomía y soporte ventilatorio. El objetivo de este trabajo fue analizar el comportamiento clínico-epidemiológico de la atención integral de los traumatismos del tórax, para buscar optimizarla. MÉTODOS. Se realizó un estudio descriptivo, con carácter retrospectivo-observacional, en pacientes con traumatismo torácico atendidos en el Hospital Universitario «Dr. Miguel Enríquez», entre enero del 2006 y diciembre del 2008. Se determinó el comportamiento de la actividad quirúrgica y se relacionó con el tiempo de intervención, desde el arribo de los pacientes al hospital hasta la cirugía, así como la aparición de complicaciones, principales causas de los traumatismos y el promedio de estadía posoperatoria. RESULTADOS. La mayoría de los pacientes fueron intervenidos entre los 15 y 20 min tras la llegada al hospital. Los traumatismos más frecuentes fueron las heridas por arma blanca, y las causas más frecuentes de la operación fueron los hemoneumotórax traumáticos. La complicación más común fue el choque hipovolémico durante el acto quirúrgico, en pacientes operados después de los 15 min del arribo al hospital. La mayoría de los pacientes tuvo una evolución posoperatoria de 5 a 10 días. CONCLUSIONES. A pesar de la elevada mortalidad que conllevan las lesiones torácicas, un elevado número de pacientes puede ser tratado con medidas conservadoras, por punción o aspiración torácica. El tiempo es un factor decisivo en el pronóstico de los lesionados y, si bien el marcador «hora de oro» es indicador de excelencia, para que se cumpla necesariamente tiene que existir una vía rápida de llegada al hospital, una atención inmediata en el servicio de urgencias "que incluye las capacidades del equipo multidisciplinario que se enfrenta a uno o varios lesionados a la vez", la disponibilidad de medios diagnósticos auxiliares, la pronta preparación de los quirófanos y la accesibilidad a los cuidados intensivos, tan necesarios para la estabilización de estos pacientes.INTRODUCTION. Around the 15% of thoracic traumata require surgical intervention and the 85% may be treated using simple procedures including observation, thoracostomy tube and ventilator support. The aim of present paper was to analyze the clinical-epidemiologic behavior of integral care of thorax traumata for optimization. METHODS. An observational, retrospective and descriptive study was conducted in patients presenting with thoracic trauma seen in the "Dr. Miguel Enríquez" University Hospital between January, 2006 and December, 2008.Behavior of surgical activity was determined and the operation time from the arrival of patients to hospital until surgery was determined, as well as the appearance of complications, leading causes of traumata and the postoperative stay average. RESULTS. Most of patients were operated on between the 15 and the 20 minutes after arrival to hospital. The more frequent traumata were the cold steel wounds and the more frequent causes of surgery were the traumatic hemo-pneumothorax. The commonest complication was the hypovolemic shock during surgery in patients operated on after 15minutes of arrival to hospital. Most of patients had a postoperative course of 5 to10 days. CONCLUSIONS. Despite the high mortality rate provoked by the thoracic lesions, many patients may to be treated with conservative measures, by puncture or thoracic aspiration. Time is a decisive factor in the prognosis of the injured patients, and if now the "gold hour" marker is the excellence indicator, to its fulfilment, it is necessary the existence of a fast arrival to hospital, an immediate care in the emergence service including the abilities of the multidisciplinary staff facing to one of several injured at the same time, the availability of auxiliary diagnostic means, the fast preparation of operation theaters and the access to intensive care units very necessary for stabilization of patients.

O objetivo deste artigo é discutir recentes contribuições conceituais para a construção de modelos de organização das ações de atenção à saúde. Trata-se de um ensaio crítico baseado na Teoria do Processo de Trabalho em Saúde, de Mendes-Gonçalves e colaboradores, relido na perspectiva filosófica da Hermenêutica contemporânea (Gadamer; Ricoeur, Habermas). Em primeiro lugar, define-se modelo como a convergência de horizontes entre os diversos discursos socialmente legitimados acerca dos modos de operar as tecnologias de atenção à saúde de indivíduos e populações. A seguir, são apontados como norteadores da reflexão o princípio da integralidade da atenção no contexto do Sistema Único de Saúde e seus desafios nos planos do conhecimento, das tecnologias e da ética. Os conceitos de vulnerabilidade, cuidado e humanização, como recentes proposições para novas confluências discursivas interessadas na construção de modelos de atenção integral, são, então, tomados para análise, discutindo-se seus principais pressupostos e conteúdos, assim como seus alcances e desafios práticos.The objective of this paper is to discuss the recent conceptual contributions to the development of health care organization models. This is a critical essay, based on the Theory of Health Work Process, authored by Mendes-Gonçalves and collaborators, revisited under the philosophical perspective of contemporary Hermeneutics (Gadamer, Ricoeur, Habermas). Firstly, "model" is defined as the convergence of horizons of the diverse socially legitimated discourses on the modes of operation of technologies that provide health care for individuals and populations. Then, the principle of integrality of care within the context of Sistema Único de Saúde (Brazil's National Health System) and its challenges in the fields of knowledge, technologies and ethics are elected as the guiding path for the reflection. The concepts of vulnerability, care and humanization, viewed as recent proposals attempting at new discursive confluences for the construction of integral care models, are analyzed, focusing on their main assumptions and contents, and also on their practical achievements and challenges.

O objetivo deste artigo é refletir sobre a factibilidade da aplicação plena dos princípios da integralidade nos serviços de atenção à saúde. Propomos que, para além do nível de abstração, quando analisado a partir da zona caótica das interações cotidianas, o princípio da integralidade é fractal: reflete visões de mundo coerentes em seus microcontextos, mas nem sempre passíveis de considerar as igualmente diversas visões de mundo dos interstícios interpessoais dessas redes de acolhimento e atendimento às demandas em saúde. Para entender essa dinâmica, foi realizado um exercício de análise discursiva, que procurou contrapor a diversidade semântica à variedade de posições de pessoa que se faz presente no cotidiano das práticas de saúde. Iniciamos pela caracterização do ideal da integralidade e suas relações com a demanda, pontuando a diversidade de seus sentidos e tomamos como exemplo documentos voltados à operacionalização do SUS. Em seguida, aprofundamos a reflexão sobre a diversidade semântica de demanda com base em seus significados dicionarizados, definindo, a partir deste exercício, tipos de posições de pessoa em relações dialógicas que envolvem demandas. Para isso, utilizamos uma experiência pessoal recente de internação hospitalar de uma paciente que nos levou a problematizar os dilemas éticos que se apresentam no cuidado a pacientes terminais.The aim of this article is to reflect on the feasibility of applying the principle of integral care to health services in Brazil. We propose that as we leave the level of abstraction and enter the chaos of day-to-day interactions, the notion of integral care is fractal: it reflects world views that are coherent in their micro-contexts, but are not always able to understand the diverse world views present in the interpersonal interactions of the network of care for health demands. In order to understand this complex interpersonal dynamics, an exercise in discursive analysis was carried out to contrast semantic diversity with the variety of person positions that are present in the daily life of health practices. We started by characterizing the ideal of integral care and its relation with health demands examining the diversity of meanings that are present in legislation concerning the Public Health System in Brazil. This analytic exercise was then followed by a dictionary investigation of the semantic diversity of the term demand so as to define a typology of person positions in dialogical interactions involving health demands. To illustrate this, we used a recent personal hospitalization experience of a patient that led us to reflect, also, on the ethical dilemmas that are present in the care of terminal patients.

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The Specialized Pharmaceutical Care Component (CEAF) of the Unified Health System (SUS) aims to ensure the comprehensiveness of drug treatment in the outpatient care. In order to analyze the perceptions of the actors involved with the CEAF about this Component, a qualitative research (focus group and semi-structured interviews) was conducted. A strong dependence of CEAF in relation to other structural actions in health policy was observed. According to the actors, the current organization and management of health services do not promote continuity of care, which results in fragmented care. Factors such as lack of coordination among healthcare services and professionals, problems in the organization of flows and insufficient provision of services were highlighted. Furthermore, the focus of pharmaceutical services on medication, that means, a minimalist view, has impacted in different ways the healthcare provided for the people. Coordination of services, appropriate to health needs, should result in the perception of continuity of care from the perspective of the user is necessary In this way, it is understood that the access to medication has been ensured, but the comprehensiveness of healthcare, preconized by the "healthcare lines", is compromised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to analyze the concept of quality from the beneficiaries demands of the Supplementary Health, whose main bias the issue of integral care, considering the relationship between satisfaction, information asymmetry and health care. We analyzed a sample of 1,013 emails of 19,969 that were sent to the Supplemental Health National Agency Relationship Center, between March 18, 2014 and March 19, 2015, relating to complaints of beneficiaries who reside in Southeastern Brazil, resulting in the following categorization: Access to Health Services and Continuity of Care, with the following subcategories: Denial; Difficulty and / or Conditioning Constraints; and Restricted Providers Network. Beneficiaries emphasized aspects related to access to services and continuity of care, noting that in addition to the denial of access to services and procedures, they are faced with the restriction of continuity of care. The results place us the challenge to question the structure of the supplemental health sector, whose contracts are based on the definition of a list of procedures and cost reduction strategies are configured as a restraint instrument to the right to health itself, in addition to the necessary respect to consumer's right. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Psychologists in hospital settings are part of a complex network of professional relationships in constant negotiation. In addition, psychologists have skills that enable them to work with social phenomena and to act strategically within them. This is especially important in inter-disciplinary team work where professional boundaries can generate barriers to change. This article shows how psychologists of a maternity hospital in a working-class district of a large Brazilian city adapted to an integral approach to health care in a way that helped other professionals to rethink practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Neste artigo, as autoras discutem o significado que vem sendo atribuído ao termo assistência integral a saúde da criança e do adolescente, apontando suas várias interpretações em busca de superar a fragmentação da assistência. Inicialmente, apresentam as articulações entre o movimento de proteção à criança e a sociedade em geral, em seguida, as diretrizes políticas da assistência à criança e ao adolescente no Brasil contemporâneo. Na segunda parte, discutem as estratégias da enfermagem para apreender a criança em seus aspectos biológicos, em sua subjetividade e em sua dimensão social. Concluem que as necessidades atuais de assistência à criança hospitalizada convergem para: - a apreensão da criança em seus aspectos orgânicos e em sua subjetividade;- o envolvimento dos pais e da família no processo de promoção, prevenção, diagnóstico, terapêutica, e de reabilitação; - organização do trabalho em equipes multidisciplinares e multiprofissionais; - compreensão das instituições de saúde como espaços de produção de serviços onde se estabelecem relações sociais complexas. Portanto, a assistência integral não pode ser tomada de uma forma idealizada, no plano teórico, como uma mistura de referenciais teóricos que vão desde a ecologia até biologia molecular. Ela implica em um árduo trabalho de construção concreta e cotidiana de interação, com determinação política de implementar mudanças.In this paper the authors discuss the meaning that has been attributed to the term "integral care of children's and adolescents's health", highlighting its several interpretations, with a view to overcoming fragmentation of care. To start with, they present the articulations by the movement for children protection with the society as a whole, following with the political policies for the care of children land adolescents in Brazil. In the second part, they discuss nursing strategies to view children as to their biological aspects, their subjectivity and social dimension. They conclude that the present needs for the care of hospitalized children converge to: considering children in their organic aspects as well as their subjectivity along with parents' and other relatives' involvement in the processes of their children's health promotion, prevention of diseases, diagnosis, therapeutics and rehabilitations other concerns are the organization of work in multidisciplinary and multiprofessional teams, and the understanding of health institutions as service production spaces where complex social relations are established. Therefore, integral care must not be seen as an idealized theoretical approach, as a mixture of theoretical framework ranging from ecology to molecular biology. It implies hard work for daily building concrete interaction, with political determination for implementing changes.

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This study aims to contribute to the discussion of some of the skills necessary to the health supervision process: political and managerial competence, with emphasis on participatory management; competence in health care, with an emphasis on integral care; and educational competence, with emphasis on active teaching and learning methodologies. The development of these skills needs to be covered in the process of training and continuing health education and, in particular, the reflection on the transformative character of the supervision process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The SA MU is a priority politics for the present government. This study aimed to discuss the potential of integral care practices within the SA MU, analyzing the care to the emergency cases by key management actors. Methodology was based on Giddens's Structuration Theory, linking structure and action, which was investigated by means of discursive consciousness. We interviewed managers of three federal entities which related their regulation practices of SA MU in the State of Rio de Janeiro. The axes of analysis were: the SA MU, its features, functions, and social issue, the doctor, his profile, attitudes and clinical decision making, and assistance in networking, management and regulation. No integrated assistance for structural failure of primary care and precariousness in the referral hospitals was pointed. Precarious training and employment relationships hinder the management in the SA MU. There was ineffectiveness of the management committees of various levels and there was no information production. It was highlighted the privilege of regulation as a monitoring system and attention to the emergency room to evaluate the performance of the network and the regionalization of care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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La violencia es la acción ejercida por una o varias personas, en la que se somete de manera intencional al maltrato, presión, sufrimiento, manipulación u otra acción que atente contra la integridad física, psicológica y moral de cualquier persona o grupo de personas. Los factores de riesgo de la conducta violenta se pueden agrupar en macrosociales, microsociales e individuales. El enfoque integral de intervención hacia la conducta violenta, debe tener en cuenta, no solo los componentes biológicos, psicológicos y sociales, sino también las peculiaridades sociales, grupales e individuales de su determinación.Violence is the action exerted by one or a certain number of persons practicing in an intentional way the ill-treatment, the pressure, suffering, manipulation or another action attempting on physical, psychological or moral integrity of any person of group of persons. The risk factors of violent behavior may be grouped into macrosocial, microsocial and individual. The integral approach of the intervention to violent behavior must to be into account not only the biological, psychological and social components but also the social, group and individual particular features of its determination.

Introduction: As coronavirus pandemic burst in Spain in March 2020, Zamudio Hospital -a monographic psychiatric institutionwas urged to create an specific Covid unit. It was destined to patients with psychiatric admission criteria, who in addition oscillated between positive asymptomatics or with mild symptoms to suspect cases or close contacts. Objectives: To describe and analyse the characteristics of the unit and the patients who were admitted during the confinement period by Covid-19, between March 14th and June 21st 2020. Methods: The patients' data were collected retrospectively. These data included: age; sex; admission criteria; diagnosis at discharge; confirmed/suspected/contact case; presence/absence of symptoms; length of hospital stay; number of doctor on call assessment. Results: An area within the hospitalwards was reserved to COVID cases / suspected / contact patients requiring psychiatric care. The storing of material and PPE was held in the forementioned area, according to protocolary measures. 26 Patients (11 women and 15 men) were admitted to the unit. Mean age was 44 years old. Diagnosis at discharge were mainly Schizophrenia (31%), Schizoaffective disorder (23%), other psicosis (11,5%) and Bipolar disorder (8%). The mean hospital stay was 5 days. There were a total of 7 confirmed positive cases, all with asyptomatic-mild course. Conclusions: The establishment of this unit has ensured a proper psychiatric care and a strict control of Covid-19 transmission within patients and staff members. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

O objetivo deste artigo é discutir recentes contribuições conceituais para a construção de modelos de organização das ações de atenção à saúde. Trata-se de um ensaio crítico baseado na Teoria do Processo de Trabalho em Saúde, de Mendes-Gonçalves e colaboradores, relido na perspectiva filosófica da Hermenêutica contemporânea (Gadamer; Ricoeur, Habermas). Em primeiro lugar, define-se modelo como a convergência de horizontes entre os diversos discursos socialmente legitimados acerca dos modos de operar as tecnologias de atenção à saúde de indivíduos e populações. A seguir, são apontados como norteadores da reflexão o princípio da integralidade da atenção no contexto do Sistema Único de Saúde e seus desafios nos planos do conhecimento, das tecnologias e da ética. Os conceitos de vulnerabilidade, cuidado e humanização, como recentes proposições para novas confluências discursivas interessadas na construção de modelos de atenção integral, são, então, tomados para análise, discutindo-se seus principais pressupostos e conteúdos, assim como seus alcances e desafios práticos.

La fibrilación auricular es la arritmia más sobresaliente a la que se enfrenta el médico general. Fuertemente asociada al envejecimiento y a la vasculopatía crónica, su presencia se relaciona con el riesgo de aumentar la morbimortalidad tromboembólica. Como objetivo se planteó actualizar pertinentemente el abordaje clínico terapéutico ante la fibrilación auricular. Se realizó una búsqueda en las bases de datos SciELO Cuba, SciELO Regional, Pubmed, Cumed y Clinical Key, de todo lo relacionado con el tema en el período comprendido entre los años 2012-2015. Se utilizaron las palabras las siguientes palabras clave: fibrilación auricular, diagnóstico, terapéutica y atención integral. El abordaje en la fibrilación auricular es integral, multidisciplinario e individualizado. El método clínico juega un papel trascendental a la hora de reconocer y registrar sus principales manifestaciones clínicas, su fisiopatología y etiología, y los exámenes complementarios que confirman su presencia o sus complicaciones. Se clasificaron formas variadas para protocolizar la conducta médica y garantizar la seguridad del paciente, en cuanto a: control de frecuencia, cardioversión, prevención de recurrencias y de la tromboembolia sistémica. El arma más poderosa ante el reto de la fibrilación auricular es la visión integradora y con enfoque individual y social, enarbolada por el médico en el largo y difícil camino que impone esta disritmia cardíaca.

Objective: To develop models to improve accessibility of performing laboratory tests on chronic oncology patients, as well as a more flexible choice of sample collection in both primary and specialized care., Material and Methods: Circuit analysis of cancer patients. Patient survey to study access to laboratory tests. High Resolution Consultation Development Model (MCAR) and Patient Access Analytical Model (MAAP)., Results: The percentage of cancer patients on treatment has increased by 8.76% in the past two years. There was a 32% increased in the use of the MAAP model in the two years of its implementation, and has been the choice of 74% due to greater accessibility, with 8% of the patients having used both models to suit their needs., Conclusions: The implementation of optimized and preferred care systems has shown that both models improve accessibility and flexibility of the diagnostic testing laboratory in the patients studied., (Copyright © 2012 SECA. Published by Elsevier Espana. All rights reserved.)