| |  | Brown, Theodore M. | The World Health Organization and the Transition From “International” to “Global” Public Health read moreAbstract: The term “global health” is rapidly replacing the older terminology of “international health.” We describe the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) in both international and global health and in the transition from one to the other. We suggest that the term “global health” emerged as part of larger political and historical processes, in which WHO found its dominant role challenged and began to reposition itself within a shifting set of power alliances.
Between 1948 and 1998, WHO moved from being the unquestioned leader of international health to being an organization in crisis, facing budget shortfalls and diminished status, especially given the growing influence of new and powerful players. We argue that WHO began to refashion itself as the coordinator, strategic planner, and leader of global health initiatives as a strategy of survival in response to this transformed international political context. | 2006 |
| | | Starfield, Barbara | Atención primaria y responsabilidades de salud pública en seis países de Europa y América del Norte: un estudio piloto read moreAbstract: Background: Rapidly occurring changes within the health care systems are creating an opportunity to re-orient the relationships between their different sectors. In order to know the locus of responsibility for various types of preventive activities, we undertook an inquiry on eight areas in six countries from Europe and North America. Methods: An inquiry among experts based on a matrix which arrayed the type of preventive health services against the target population. Eight clinical conditions were identified (childhood immunizations; adult influenza vaccination; mammography screening, tuberculosis screening, hypertension screening, PKU screening, HIV screening, and osteoporosis testing) trying to know their target population and the locus of responsibility for setting of policy, level to contact individuals for testing, follow-up of people with abnormal tests and maintenance of their medical records. Results: This pilot study showed very little results coincidence either within the eight surveyed areas or across them. There was no regular pattern for the preventive activities studied among the different countries, neither according to the type of health system, nor to the primary health care orientation of the different systems. Conclusions: There was a limited consensus in the activities studied concerning the best mode of doing public health interventions for personal health services. | 2004 |
| | | Campos, Gastão W. | Saúde pública e saúde coletiva: campo e núcleo de saberes e práticas read moreAbstract: O artigo discute o campo e o núcleo de saberes e de práticas da saúde coletiva a partir de um metodologia dialética, pensando-a para além do positivismo e do estruturalismo e fazendo uma crítica à sua tendência de assumir posição de transcendência sobre o campo da saúde. A partir dessa análise são elaboradas sugestões para debate, relacionadas centralmente com saúde coletiva entendida como construção sociohistórica de sujeitos concretos. | 2000 |
| | | Campos, Gastão W. | Equipes de referência e apoio especializado matricial: um ensaio sobre a reorganização do trabalho em saúde read moreAbstract: Este artigo propõe um novo arranjo organizacional para o trabalho em saúde. É desenvolvido e ampliado o conceito de equipe de referência - proposto e experimentado pelo autor desde 1989. É também reelaborado o conceito de organização matricial do trabalho, invertendo-se em relação ao esquema original o que seria permanente e aquilo que seria transitório (recorte matricial) nos serviços de saúde. São também apresentadas considerações teóricas que autorizam e justificam a construção desta nova proposta. | 1999 |
| | | Monteiro, L. A. | Florence Nightingale on public health nursing read moreAbstract: Florence Nightingale, in addition to her role in initiating nursing education programs, was also involved in developing nursing for the sick poor at home and in workhouses through her work for poor law and workhouse reform of the 1860s. Her writings on public health nursing--11 items that were written during a space of more than 30 years--emphasize the need for special training for public health nurses, the importance of sanitation and disease prevention through the nurses teaching of the sick poor, and the demoralizing nature of poverty and pauperization. | 1985 |
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