[Primary Healthcare in Paraguay: overview and prospects].

This paper presents an overview of Primary Health Care (PHC) in Paraguay, as part of a multicentric study, seeking to identify the possibilities of PHC as a factor for reorganizing the health system. The methodology adopts the comprehensive PHC concept, and takes into consideration the system's segmentation, formed by the public sector of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Social Security, a not-for-profit private sector, a private for-profit sector and a mixed sector. The study analyzes 5 dimensions: stewardship, financing, resources, integration/continuity, intersectorality/participation, through reviewing data from the literature and official documents, and key informant interviews (experts, decision-makers, professionals and civil society).

[Notes for studying primary care within the context of segmented health systems].

This paper discusses the contribution of the concept of governance, combined with traditional approaches to primary health care (PHC) analysis, in a multicentre study covering Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. Considering health systems’ variety of configurations and their segmented context, it aims to compare PHC implementation and performance characteristics in each country so as to explain them according to different determinants and compare them to governance models. Each country’s segmented context is presented, identifying public, private and social insurance sub-sectors’ arrangements.

[Humanization: social representations of a children's hospital].

This study aims at investigating the architectural and built environment aspects involved in the humanizing process in a pediatric hospital and its influence to the recovering of the hospitalized child. Based on the Social Representation Theory, a structural analysis was carried out, using free association of words and a semi-structured questionnaire for data collection. The study was carried out in a public hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the results presented refer to the representations produced by 75 people accompanying hospitalized child.

[The look of teenagers about health: a study on social representation].

Studying the social representations elaborated by adolescents aims to define a purpose to evaluate the Adolescent Healthcare Program (PROSAD) in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The study is based on the Social Representation Theory using its structural approach. A word evocation test and a questionnaire with closed and open questions have been used.

[Strategies for changes in primary health care: evaluating the pilot implementation of the Project on Young Men's Health in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil].

To improve young men's adherence to a teenage health care program, a project was developed and implemented with a pilot phase in primary health centers in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This article presents the results of an evaluation performed at the end of the first year, aimed at identifying characteristics in the health care services that play a strategic role for change, as well as those that contribute to resistance. The methodology was based on participatory planning techniques and rapid assessment procedures (RAP).

[Participatory evaluation in health programs: a proposal for the Adolescent Health Care Program].

This article presents a model for participatory evaluation of the Adolescent Health Program (PROSAD) in Brazil. The study focuses on the concept of participation, with a review of internationally validated planning methodologies (RAP, logFRAME, ZOPP, PCM) and the programmatic characteristics of PROSAD. The proposed model comprises 4 steps, involving the constitution of the analytical matrix, a self-evaluation workshop, a summary of results, and graphic representation.