Challenges for the formulation, implantation and implementation of a National Health Surveillance Policy in Brazil.

This article examines the evolution of health surveillance policies as actions, models and systems, as well as contributing to the debate about the constitution of the National Health Surveillance Policy (PNVS). The article discusses conceptual elements regarding the notion of health surveillance and its evolution in Brazil and a trajectory is provided in relation to the construction of care models, particularly after the creation of the Unified Health System (SUS). The possibility of using the framework of public policies based on evidence, and methods for analyzing health situations, such as spatial analysis and time series, are highlighted.

The historical trajectory of the city of Rio de Janeiro's health system: 1916-2015. One hundred years of innovations and achievements.

By rebuilding the history of the facilities that constituted the city of Rio de Janeiro's health system between 1916 and 2015, this article also pieces together one hundred years of the country's public health system. Due to its important role, first as the country's capital, then as a state, and later as the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, this city had a major influence on the multiple events that led to the creation of Brazil's Unified Health System. Periodization was used as a methodological resource to explore how factors that influenced the aims of the technical powers and government were turned into health services stemming from the ideology that underpinned the history of the health system.

[Evaluation of primary care from the perspective of users: adaptation of the EUROPEP instrument for major Brazilian urban centers].

Satisfaction with health care is a multidimensional concept that considers aspects such as access, organization and professional-user interaction. The aim of this study was to adapt and apply an instrument in the Family Health Strategy (FHS) to assess user satisfaction with Primary Health Care (PHC) based on the European Task Force on Patient Evaluation of General Practice Care (EUROPEP), which refers to user satisfaction wth general and family medicine services. The instrument consists of five dimensions of satisfaction: relationship and communication, medical care, information and support, continuity and cooperation, and organization of services.

[Evaluation of health planning activities by family health teams].

Evaluation of health planning activities adapted to the local context is an essential part of daily work in the Family Health Strategy (FHS). This study aimed to evaluate the planning activities conducted by family health teams in Espírito Santo State, Brazil. This was an ecological study based on secondary data from 241 health teams in 46 municipalities (counties) in the State that use the Evaluation for Quality Improvement in the Family Health Strategy (AMQ-ESF) form.

[The origins of the basic healthcare system in Brazil: the District System of Sanitation Administration].

There exists an interaction between multiple issues involving policy making, the building of knowledge and the implementation of practices in the health sector, which results in the particular way health services are provided in different historical contexts. The emergence and consolidation of sanitation organization was the result of a political process based on an idea of meeting the needs perceived in a given historical context. The historical course taken by the basic healthcare system in Brazil is analyzed from the perspective of its organizational and welfare principles, its expansion in physical terms, and its function within the public health system between 1918 and 1942.