HRH Global Resource Center - Brazil

The Organizational Culture of a Brazilian Public Hospital

Wed, 26 Nov 2014 19:12:42 +0000

The objective of this research was to analyze the organizational culture of a Brazilian public hospital. It is a descriptive study with quantitative approach of data, developed in a public hospital of São Paulo State, Brazil. [from abstract]

Primary Care and Public Health Services Integration in Brazil’s Unified Health System

Wed, 26 Nov 2014 17:07:14 +0000

We examined associations between transdisciplinary collaboration, evidence-based practice, and primary care and public health services integration in Brazil’s Family Health Strategy. We aimed to identify practices that facilitate service integration and evidence-based practice. [from abstract]

Hardy Personality and Burnout Syndrome Among Nursing Students in Three Brazilian Universities—An Analytic Study

Wed, 02 Jul 2014 13:51:04 +0000

Nursing students may exhibit the characteristics of resistance to stress, such as hardiness, which can reduce the risk of burnout. However, we found only one published study about these phenomena among nursing students. Thus, we investigated the association between hardiness and burnout in such students. [from abstract]

Brazilian association of nursing: 85 years of Social Responsibility, Participation and Struggles

Mon, 16 Jun 2014 13:36:09 +0000

To analyze the documents published by the Brazilian Association of Nursing that study the entity and 85 years of social responsibility, participation and struggles. [adapted from abstract]

Human Resources for Health and Universal Health Coverage: Fostering Equity and Effective Coverage

Mon, 12 May 2014 20:11:56 +0000

The paper reports on country experiences using an analytical framework that examines effective coverage in relation to the availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality (AAAQ) of HRH. [from abstract]

Twenty Years of Health System Reform in Brazil An Assessment of the Sistema Único de Saúde

Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:31:21 +0000

It has been more than 20 years since the 1988 Constitution formally established the Brazilian Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde, SUS), which established health as a fundamental right and duty of the state and started a process of fundamentally transforming Brazil’s health system. The report assesses whether the SUS reforms have transformed the health system as envisaged more than 20 years ago and whether the reforms have led to improved outcomes with regard to access to services, financial protection, and health status. [adapted from introduction]

Community Based Education in Health Professions: Global Perspectives

Thu, 24 Apr 2014 14:02:40 +0000

“Community Based Education in Health Professions: Global Perspectives” presents a collection of case studies from Bangladesh, Brazil, Egypt, India, Pakistan and South Africa describing different ways of planning, implementing and sustaining community-based education for health students. The case studies provide an account of what worked and what did not, the trials and errors, and the challenges and lessons learned. [adapted from introduction]

Reducing Inequities in Neonatal Mortality through Adequate Supply of Health Workers: Evidence from Newborn Health in Brazil

Tue, 24 Sep 2013 21:10:55 +0000

Using the case of Brazil, this study investigates the extent to which policies and interventions seeking to increase the accessibility of health services among the poor have been effective in decreasing neonatal mortality. [adapted from abstract]

Learning from the Brazilian Community Health Worker Model in North Wales

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:44:27 +0000

This article describes the rationale for the UK to learn from Brazil’s scaled-up Community Health Worker primary care strategy, starting with a pilot project in North Wales. [from abstract]

Monitoring Inequalities in the Health Workforce: The Case Study of Brazil 1991-2005

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:17:13 +0000

Using the case of Brazil, the authors measure changes in inequalities in the distribution of the health workforce and account for the sources of inequalities at sub-national level to identify whether policies have been effective in decreasing inequalities and increasing the density of health workers in the poorest areas between 1991 and 2005. [from abstract]