Maternal health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of health workers in three Brazilian municipalities.

Objective: To analyze the experiences of maternal health workers in three Brazilian cities, located in the Northeast (São Luís), Southeast (Niterói), and South (Pelotas) regions during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: Qualitative research carried out between December 2020 and February 2021. Interviews were conducted, in person or remotely, with 30 health workers, doctors and nurses, working in maternity hospitals of different degrees of complexity.

Experiences of women in prenatal, childbirth, and postpartum care during the COVID-19 pandemic in selected cities in Brazil: The resignification of the experience of pregnancy and giving birth.

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted public and private health systems around the world, impairing good practices in women's health care. However, little is known about the experiences, knowledge, and feelings of Brazilian women in this period. The objective was to analyze the experiences of women, seen at maternity hospitals accredited by the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS, acronym in Portuguese), regarding health care during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum periods, their interpersonal relationships, and perceptions and feelings about the pandemic.

Healthcare for children with congenital Zika syndrome: analysis of access to social rights.

Unlabelled: The objective of this study was to describe if the victims of the Zika have access to essential public policies to guarantee social rights.

Methods: We used a cross-sectional study of a historical cohort of children with congenital Zika syndrome (CZS) in a reference hospital. CZS diagnosis was based on the Ministry of Health protocol.

[Care for patients with Chronic Kidney Disease at the primary healthcare level: considerations about comprehensiveness and establishing a matrix].

Chronic kidney disease is a public health problem throughout the world. Early detection and treatment can reduce morbidity, mortality and associated expenditures. The objective of this research is to examine primary healthcare from a physician's perspective, evaluating the patient's access to other levels of healthcare.

[Evaluation experiences of the supplementary care sector: contributions of integrality].

This work identifies aspects of comprehensiveness in the proposals for healthcare evaluation of the Agência Nacional de Saúde Suplementar (ANS) in Brazil, and of the National Commitee Quality Assurance (NCQA) in the U.S.A.

Integrality in the population's health care programs.

This article examines integrality as one of the doctrinal principles of the Brazilian State Health Policy - the Unified Health System (SUS) - whose aim is to offer health care as a right and as a service. Integrality is the foundation around which managerial activity practices are organized and whose main challenge is guaranteeing access to the health care system's most complex assistance levels. We developed an analytical reference grounded on three dimensions: service organization, knowledge, the practices of health workers and government policy formulation with input from the population.