[Family health assistance according to the psychoanalysis approaches: a proposal for caring].

These theoretical reflections are based on a critical assessment of practices which include the patient's family participation in the treatment of the individual in health services. The objective is to question the health work organization in the clinic approach which values a certain concept of man. When a family member looks for help, health professionals develop practices oriented by the conception of family as a harmonious system.

[Effectiveness study of the universal newborn hearing screening].

This article discusses the insufficiency of family participation in a program of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening. As it is a premature detection of hearing alterations, with the possibility of reduction of damages caused by these, it becomes essential the family participation during all the diagnosis process. The aim of the text is to understand the absence of the mothers of infants born between May 2002 and June 2004 at Center of Integral Attention to the Health of the Woman (Unicamp) when returning to a second hearing evaluation.

[Analysis of seniors vaccination programme in Campinas, São Paulo State, Brazil].

This study examines the planning, operations and assessment of a Seniors Vaccination Program in Campinas, São Paulo State, from the standpoint of practices adopted by central, district and local authorities and intended to ensure influenza vaccination coverage. The case study method was used, with work-health process benchmarks. The primary data source was semi-structured interviews, with institutional documents and records serving as secondary sources.

[Creation memory of the nursing undergraduate course at the University of Campinas].

The objective of this study was to reconstitute the history of the creation of the Nursing Undergraduate Course at the Medical Sciences School, University of Campinas, occurred in 1978, through an unofficial history, due to the insufficiency of pertinent documental sources. Nurses who participated directly and actively in this process were the subjects of the research. The School of Nursing, legally planned since 1966, was never established.

[The work of SUS (Unified Health System) nurses in Campinas: 1970s and 80s].

We had the aim of analyzing the introduction and the practices developed by nurses in Health department of Campinas County in the period of 1978 and 1989. Among the practices developed by nurses we highlighted the supervision as instrument of evaluation/training and supervising/control of work; the training of aides for public health; the appointment and the nursing practices; the house calls; the ruling and developing of nursing technical procedures and the nursing registers. We reached the conclusion that there were transformations in the nursing working process, and a giant step took by them was very important for the establishment of the Public Health Network, the reorganization of model geared to health.

[Graduate nursing teaching at Unicamp: policies and practices].

The authors analyse teaching at the graduate nursing program from Unicamp (SP), starting from the introduction of a new curriculum in 1997, in accordance to the curricular standards taken from Federal Law concerning education. In theory, the changes implemented subvert the established order. It has been a hard task to operate curricular reform in a public university that is experiencing a financial and management crisis--reflections of a neoliberal ideology in public education policies, which increasingly values scientific production to the detriment of initiatives toward quality teaching.

[Survey of types of repercussions as a result of performance evaluation in hospital nursing].

This article is part of a study about performance evaluation in nursing and aims to identify and describe the measures adopted on the basis of the nursing staff performance evaluation that was carried out at municipal district hospitals in the Paraiba Valley Region - São Paulo, Brazil. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire, which was applied among the nurses in charge of the Nursing or Continuous Education Services. The obtained data allowed us to verify that, although 66.

[Nursing training and municipal management of health in Brazil: significance of policies and practices].

In order to clarify central aspects to be considered in undergraduate education both in health sciences and in nursing, regarding contemporary health policies, this article presents a historical approach with emphasis on municipal health management. The authors point out the characteristic of the Sanitary Reform movement and of the neoliberal project in health, followed by a presentation of the National Health System (SUS). Using as starting point the concept of decentralization (only one command at each level of government)--the authors discuss the elaboration and implementation of public social policies and services at the local level.

[Nursing practice and public health policy in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil].

Redemocratization in the 1970s brought about changes in the public health system in Brazil. The Unified National Health System (SUS) was implemented in 1988, based on local and regional administrative systems. This was an important step that resulted in greater local control and the introduction of new technologies.

[Eco-epidemiological aspects of American cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Municipality of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil].

The authors describe an outbreak of American cutaneous leishmaniasis from February 1993 to September 1994 in the districts of Sousas and Joaquim Egídio, Campinas, São Paulo State. Out of a total of 25 cases, seven occurred in the countryside, nine in the periurban area, and nine in the urban area. The authors observed a shift in the occurrence of leishmaniasis cases from rural to urban areas.