This article aims to analyse the COVID-19 coping strategies adopted by municipal health managers in two regions. A mixed method study of the sequential explanatory type was carried out with municipal health managers and primary care coordinators. The quantitative stage was developed with the application of an instrument to 42 managers to identify coping actions and associations with demographic and epidemiological data of COVID-19 in the municipalities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: to understand how health professionals perceive the shared care between the teams of Primary Health Care and Home Care Service.
Method: descriptive study, with a qualitative approach, carried out with 17 professionals, in the municipality of Campo Grande, MS. Data were collected from August to October 2019, through semi-structured audio-recorded interviews and submitted to content analysis.
Objective: To analyze the perspective of Nurses Coordinators of Family Health Teams on the management of care for people with chronic illness in rural areas.
Method: Qualitative approach exploratory study, carried out in a Health Region of Rio Grande do Sul, together with the Nurses in charge of the Units, between 2014 and 2015. The sample included seven participants.
Aim: To analyze the repercussions of Nursing, the structuring and resolution of National Health Systems in facing the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in selected countries.
Method: Reflection article on the confrontation of COVID-19 by the National Health Systems of China, United States of America, Italy, United Kingdom, Portugal, Cuba and Brazil, from information disseminated in different media and in the literature.
Results: The response of health systems depended more on political decisions than on their structuring and organization.
Objective: To understand the social determinants of health from the perspective of the work of community health agents.
Method: A qualitative study conducted in a Health District Management in the city of Porto Alegre/Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, through focus groups and semi-structured interviews with community health agents. The analysis took place through thematic categorization, and the social determinants of health were adopted as the analytical category.
Objectives: to analyze the municipal planning developed by nurses coordinating Primary Health Care, aimed at coping with Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases, from the perspective of the Situational Strategic Planning.
Methods: a descriptive exploratory study with a qualitative approach developed in municipalities of a Health Region of Rio Grande do Sul State. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with the Primary Health Care coordination of the municipalities of the empirical area, between 2014 and 2015.
Objective: to estimate usage and wastage of multi-dose and single-dose vaccine vials in the Metropolitan Region of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, from 2015 to 2017.
Methods: a descriptive study was carried out based on secondary data from the National Immunization Program Information System (SIPNI) and the Strategic Health Supplies Information System (SIES).
Results: a total of 12,342 records were examined; mean wastage rate was 45.
Objective: To analyze the possibilities of the transition from care to the problem of chronic illness due to the need of regionalized municipal planning.
Method: An exploratory qualitative study was carried out in one of the Health Regions of Rio Grande do Sul, together with the Primary Health Care Coordinators.
Results: The final thematic categories that emerged from the results were: "The relationship between municipalities of the Health Region and health planning", Organizational flow of care of users with chronic diseases", and "Managing care in the health system: meeting the demands of chronically sick users".