[The private health sector's capitalist dynamic in Brazil from 2009 to 2015].

Hospitals have shown changes in their role in health systems. In Brazil, private hospitals have always stood out, with charitable hospitals gaining increasing importance in the 21st century. Especially in the United States, there has been a trend towards consolidation of hospitals, concentrating great market power, in keeping with the capitalist phenomenon of financialization.

[Financialization of the health sector in Brazil: theoretical and methodological challenges to the investigation of companies and business groups].

The article describes the history of the response to the theoretical and methodological challenges in research on companies and corporate groups in the Brazilian health sector that reorganized their shareholding structures, diversified their activities, and expanded their financial operations. Such movements in corporate concentration and expansion were analyzed with an approach to the frame of reference for financialization in contemporary capitalism in the analysis of selected companies and corporate groups. Corporate strategies were classified in three dimensions: shareholding, financial, and accounting structure and influence on the public agenda and the respective indicators orienting the organization of information from diverse sources for companies and corporate groups from 2008 and 2017.

[Adequacy of prenatal dental care: social and geographical inequalities in a metropolitan region of Brazil].

This study set out to analyze social and geographical inequalities in the adequacy of prenatal dental care in the Unified Health System (SUS) of the Greater Vitória Metropolitan Region, Espírito Santo, Brazil. A cross-sectional study was carried out with 1209 postpartum women living in the region admitted to hospital at SUS facilities for childbirth between 2010 and 2011. Data were collected on prenatal medical-dental care, the impact of oral health on the quality of life of pregnant women (Oral Health Impact Profile-14), and predisposing characteristics.

Social and geographical inequalities in the performance of prenatal care in a metropolitan area of Brazil.

This study analyzed the social and geographical inequalities in the performance of prenatal medical care in the Unified Health System (SUS) in the Metropolitan Region of Grande Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil. A cross-sectional study was carried out with 1,209 puerperae living in this region, admitted for childbirth from 2010 to 2011. Data about prenatal care and contextual, enabling, and social characteristics were collected, following the Andersen's Behavioral Model.

The application of Iberoamerican study of adverse events (IBEAS) methodology in Brazilian hospitals.

Objective: To assess the prevalence of adverse events (AE) and to investigate its association with factors related to the patient and to hospital admission.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Four general hospitals located in the southeastern region of Brazil.

Improvement Science: conceptual and theoretical foundations for its application to healthcare quality improvement.

The development and study of healthcare quality improvement interventions have been reshaped, moving from more intuitive approaches, dominated by biomedical vision and premised on easy transferability, to gradually acknowledge the need for more planning and systematization, with greater incorporation of the social sciences and enhancement of the role of context. Improvement Science has been established, with a conceptual and methodological framework for such studies. Considering the incipient of the debate and scientific production on Improvement Science in Brazil, this article aims to expound its principal conceptual and theoretical fundamentals, focusing on three central themes: the linkage of different disciplines; recognition of the role of context; and the theoretical basis for the design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions.

A brief history of cadernos de Saúde Pública/reports in Public Health.

This article was written as part of the 20th-year commemorative issue of Ciência e Saúde Coletiva (C&SC). We take advantage of this opportunity to revisit the successful history of Cadernos de Saúde Pública (CSP)/Reports in Public Health in its 30 years of publication, progressing from a quarterly periodical with limited circulation to a monthly journal indexed in the main scientific databases. We also summarize some themes from our recent editorials, including the internationalization of scientific journals, the demand for relevant and original articles, plagiarism, and peer review.

Hospital morbidity due to paracoccidioidomycosis in Brazil (1998-2006).

Objective: To analyse hospital morbidity records due to paracoccidioidomycosis in Brazil, including its nationwide distribution in time and space, as well as key epidemiological and sociodemographic characteristics.

Methods: Descriptive analysis of hospital morbidity records due to paracoccidioidomycosis covering the period January 1998 to December 2006. Hospital records were obtained from the Hospital Information System of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SIH/SUS).

Monitoring and evaluating progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Brazil.

This paper is a country case study for the Universal Health Coverage Collection, organized by WHO. Mauricio Barreto and colleagues illustrates progress towards UHC and its monitoring and evaluation in Brazil.

Brazilian normative data for the Short Form 36 questionnaire, version 2.

Methods: The study Pesquisa Dimensões Sociais das Desigualdades (PDSD) (Social Dimensions of Inequalities) involves 12,423 randomly selected Brazilian men and women aged 18 years old or more from urban and rural areas of the five Brazilian regions, and the information collected included the SF-36 as a measure of health-related quality of life. This provided a unique opportunity to develop age and gender-adjusted normative data for the Brazilian population.

Results: Brazilian men scored substantially higher than women on all eight domains and the two summary component scales of the SF-36.

An assessment of progress towards universal health coverage in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS).

Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) represent almost half the world's population, and all five national governments recently committed to work nationally, regionally, and globally to ensure that universal health coverage (UHC) is achieved. This analysis reviews national efforts to achieve UHC. With a broad range of health indicators, life expectancy (ranging from 53 years to 73 years), and mortality rate in children younger than 5 years (ranging from 10·3 to 44·6 deaths per 1000 livebirths), a review of progress in each of the BRICS countries shows that each has some way to go before achieving UHC.