Health in sight: an analysis of Primary Health Care in riverside and rural Amazon areas.

The National Primary Care Policy has provided a significant change in terms of health actions in the riverside territory, establishing health teams and equipment. The Riverside and Fluvial Family Health teams for the Legal Amazon and Pantanal areas have been innovative regarding the integral care of the forest populations. This study aims to analyze primary health care in the rural and riverside context in the Amazon territory, based on the production of individual and collective actions by health teams, as well as their performance through services offered in the municipalities.

[Dynamic study of tuberculosis mortality in São Paulo State, Brazil: a Bayesian approach].

This study used dynamic linear models to analyze the dynamics of tuberculosis (TB) mortality in São Paulo State, Brazil. The study confirms previous findings of a decline in TB mortality in State in the last decade, while pointing to an increase in deaths beginning in 2005. Analysis of the two most frequent underlying causes pointed to HIV/TB co-infection.