Continuous Health Education policy in Brazil: the contribution of the Teaching-Service Integration Standing Committees.

The article analyzes the role of Permanent Committees of Teaching-Service Integration (CIES) in the implementation of Permanent Education in Health Policy (EPS). It is a multicenter study with a qualitative-quantitative approach which used a self-applied online questionnaire and a semi-structured interview for data collection. The key respondants were the responsible for EPS Policy of the 27 State Health Secretariats (SES) and 7 coordinators of CIESs of the five regions of Brazil.

Fiscal Responsibility Law and expenditure on health personnel: an analysis of the condition of Brazilian municipalities from 2004 to 2009.

The limits for expenditure on personnel that were imposed by the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) have been considered by local health managers as an obstacle to health sector policies. This paper analyzes the linear trend for the personnel expenses indicators and the correlation of this with the profile of spending on health care personnel in 5,356 Brazilian municipalities from 2004 to 2009. The study of the time series used data from the 'Finanças do Brasil' (Finbra) and data from the Information System on Public Health Budgets (SIOPS).

[From normative aspects to the reality of the Unified Health System: revealing barriers that curtail access to the health care network].

This article analyzes the conditions of comprehensive access to health care in Recife in the state of Pernambuco based on the trajectory experienced by users from primary health services through to specialist care. Quantitative and qualitative approaches were combined with triangulation of methods as the research technique. Systemic Arterial Hypertension was chosen as a core condition, as it is an ailment that requires attention at various levels of the city's health network.

[Surgeon dentist's profile inserted in the Strategy of Family Health in cities in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil].

This article intends to approach the incorporation of the oral health to the Family Health Strategy which included the odontology professionals into the primary health care. As the odontology has the work based in a practice of healing with emphasis in restoring activities, the implantation from this new model of attention to the health is questioned in relation to the responsible for the execution of that politics - the human resources. The objective of this article is to characterize the profile of surgeons dentists inserted in the Family Health Strategy in the cities of Pernambuco state connecting it with the specificities of the program.