Elderly retirement postponement factors: an integrative literature review.

This study aimed to search for scientific evidence published in analytical studies which address elderly workers' retirement postponement factors. An integrative literature review was performed searching for papers in Virtual Health Library (BVS) and SciELO databases from January 2009 to March 2018. Twelve papers were selected following consensus by independent reviewers, generating two categories: National Literature and International Literature.

Assessment of the responsiveness of a public health service from the perspective of older adults.

Objective: To assess the quality of health care of older adults using as a parameter the assessment of the responsiveness of the service.

Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in a reference unit of the Brazilian Unified Health System at the outpatient level. The sample was probabilistic and had 385 older adults; data collection occurred in 2014.

Economic growth and inflation rate: implications for municipal revenue and health expenditure of the municipalities of Pernambuco, Brazil.

This paper analyzes the implications of municipal budget revenue growth and the monetary policy's inflation rates goals in the availability of public health resources of municipalities. This is a descriptive, exploratory, quantitative, retrospective and longitudinal cross-sectional study covering the period 2002-2011. We analyzed health financing and expenditure variables in the municipalities of the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, describing the trend and the relationship between them.

[Municipal public health spending in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, from 2000 to 2007].

In order to assess the impact of macro-political measures implemented in the latter half of the 1990s on the increase in public spending on health and the possible reduction in allocation inequity, a descriptive, quantitative, cross-sectional study was carried out involving 184 municipalities in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. Data from the Public Health Budget Information System was used, with the selected indicator being spending on health per inhabitant under the responsibility of the municipality. The correlations of this variable with the municipal Human Development Index, population size and value of the municipal budget per capita were analyzed.

[Health care financing, expenditure and supply in great urban centers in the state of São Paulo (Brazil)].

Challenges to implantation of SUS doutrinary and operative principles in great urban centers, have stimulated the developing of strategies focused on cities over 100.000 inhabitants and had raised researches on this setting. This article approaches health financing and expenditure evolution in São Paulo cities over 500.

[Reliability of data on compliance with Constitutional Amendment 29 reported to the Public Healthcare Budget Information System by municipalities in Pernambuco State, Brazil].

The present study analyzes the reliability of data on compliance with Constitutional Amendment 29 (CA29) reported to the Public Healthcare Budget Information System (known as SIOPS) by municipalities in the State of Pernambuco, Brazil. A quantitative, analytical cross-sectional study was conducted using the years 2000 to 2005 as the reference. Invoices audited by the State Accounts Court were used as the parameter for determining reliability of the percentage of compliance with CA29 as reported to SIOPS, using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) to measure data agreement.

[Conceptions and practices of community health agents caring for the elderly].

Objective: To assess the main conceptions related to the aging process among community health agents.

Methods: An exploratory descriptive qualitative study was carried out in Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil, from 2000 to 2002. Data was collected from records and interviews with 148 community health agents.