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Health needs: an analysis of Brazilian scientific literature from 1990 to 2004

Authors :
Célia Maria Sivalli Campos
Marcel Oliveira Bataiero
Luisa Maria Larcher Caliri Juzzo
Source :
Interface: Comunicação, Saúde, Educação, Vol 3, Iss se (2007)
Publication Year :
2007
Publisher :
Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu (Unesp), 2007.

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