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Health needs: an analysis of Brazilian scientific literature from 1990 to 2004
- Source :
- Interface: Comunicação, Saúde, Educação, Vol 3, Iss se (2007)
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu (Unesp), 2007.
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Abstract
- This paper assumes that the health services' responses to health needs were affected by the regulation of the Brazilian public health system. The study objective is to identify the health-service trends found in scientific publications. Among the 73 publications selected from the LILACS on-line database, 66 (90.4%) did not mention the concept of health needs. Those that did had a reflective stance toward the subject. Health needs as defined in those articles were similar for all individuals, not considering them as members of a social class, a circumstance that defines health-needs characteristics. The results of this study are worrisome because health care delivery has been emphasizing sickness and reinforcing classification practices, rather than enabling emancipating praxis.
Details
- Language :
- English, Spanish; Castilian, Portuguese
- ISSN :
- 14143283
- Volume :
- 3
- Issue :
- se
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Interface: Comunicação, Saúde, Educação
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.33962fadf6cc46e1ab5066c087377bea
- Document Type :
- article