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Emergency medicine (EM) is not a new field in Brazil. In 2002, the Ministry of Health outlined a document, the "Portaria 2048," which called upon the entire health care system to improve emergency care in order to address the increasing number of victims of road traffic accidents and violence, as well as the overcrowding of emergency ...
Obesity in Brazil is a growing health concern. 52.6 percent of men and 44.7 percent of women in Brazil are overweight. 35% of Brazilians are obese in 2018. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] The Brazilian government issued nutrition guidelines in 2014 [ 30 ] which subsequently caught the attention of public health experts for its simplicity and their critical ...
The Sistema Único de Saúde (Portuguese pronunciation: [sisˈtemɐ ˈuniku dʒi saˈudʒi], Unified Health System), [3] better known by the acronym SUS, is Brazil's publicly funded health care system. Created in 1990, the SUS is the largest government-run public health care system in the world, by number of beneficiaries/users (virtually 100% ...
The Programa Saúde da Família (PSF), Family Health Program, in Portuguese language is one of the national public health programs in Brazil, which implements a national policy for primary care settings with the aim of substituting part of the traditional model of primary care based on medical specialists.
Health systems management ensures that specific outcomes are attained, that departments within a health facility are running smoothly, that the right people are in the right jobs, that people know what is expected of them, that resources are used efficiently and that all departments are working towards a common goal.
Iconographic Collections. Keywords: E. Walker; Florence Nightingale; W.J. Simpson. Health administration, healthcare administration, healthcare management or hospital management is the field relating to leadership, management, and administration of public health systems, health care systems, hospitals, and hospital networks in all the primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors.
Pages in category "Medical and health organisations based in Brazil" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A public health team vaccinating children for polio at Rocinha, a favela in Rio de Janeiro, 2001 (Source: CDC). Community health agent (agente comunitário de saúde or ACS, in Portuguese language) is the title of a specific lay health care worker developed in Brazil by way of PACS (Program of Community Health Workers) in 1991 as part of the construction of the Brazilian Unified Health System ...