Analysis of work scenarios in the sanitary enforcement of medicines from the federal regulatory agency.

This study analyzes the work situations experienced by professionals in the sanitary fiscalization of medicines at the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency, during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a single-case study, qualitative in nature, with an ergological approach. The data were collected from 2020 to 2021.

What contributes to Primary Health Care effectiveness? Integrative literature review, 2010-2020.

Primary Health Care (PHC) intends to rearrange services to make it more effective. Nevertheless, effectiveness in PHC is quite a challenge. This study reviews several articles regarding the effectiveness improvements in PHC between 2010 and 2020.

[Market surveillance and control of substandard, falsified and unregistered medicines: integrative reviewVigilancia y control de medicamentos subestándar, falsificados y no registrados: una revisión integral].

Objective: To identify the strategies employed by regulatory systems for the market surveillance and control of substandard, falsified, and unregistered medicines at the regional-global levels, especially regarding drug recall procedures.

Method: An integrative literature review was performed. Searches were performed in MEDLINE via PubMed, Embase, and SciELO to select articles published from 2007 to 2019 in English, Portuguese, and Spanish, covering national regulatory system initiatives, with a focus on the recall of substandard, falsified, and unregistered medicines.

User satisfaction in relation to Primary Health Care services in Brazil.

Objective: To analyze user satisfaction in relation to access, infrastructure and quality of Primary Health Care (PHC) services in Brazil.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted with data from 114,615 users linked to 30,523 health teams, obtained through the database of the Programa Nacional de Melhoria do Acesso e da Qualidade da Atenção Básica (PMAQ-AB -National Program for the Improvement of Access and Quality of Primary Care). Independent variables related to access, infrastructure and quality of services in PHC were studied.

Modes of care production and universal access - an analysis of federal guidance on the work of Primary Healthcare teams in Brazil.

This article analyzes federal guidance on the organization of primary healthcare work processes and the modes of production of care aimed at promoting universal access to services. A qualitative document analysis was undertaken of documents related to the National Health Policy, National Program for Improving Primary Care Access and Quality, More Doctors Program, and National Tele health Networks Brazil Program. Five thematic categories were defined for content analysis: staff training, valuing staff and work, organization of health actions for/with people and communities, complexity of healthcare and multiprofessional work, and collective construction of health as a right.

Nurses' workload: lights and shadows in the Family Health Strategy.

This study was multicenter with a qualitative approach, which sought to identify the elements that can increase or reduce the workloads of the Family Health nurse. Forty nurses were interviewed, from 36 teams from five regions of Brazil, considered successful according to the requirements of the National Policy of Primary Care and with good evaluation in the National Program for Improvement in Primary Care Access and Quality. Data collection was performed by instrument triangulation, using a semi-structured interview, observation and documentary study, from 2013 to September 2016.

The pharmacist in the Brazilian Primary Health Care: insertion under construction.

The objective is to analyze the insertion of the pharmacists work in primary health care in Brazil. The search was performed on BVS, SciELO, Lilacs e Medline databases from 1998 to 2016. From the 157 articles found, excluding the duplicates, theses, dissertations and reviews, after the complete reading the review included 9 articles dealing with the pharmacist's work describing experiences, attributions, potentialities, difficulties and challenges.

Challenges for work in healthcare: comparative study on University Hospitals in Algeria, Brazil and France.

This study compares the challenges for work in emergency services of publicuniversity hospitals in Algeria, Brazil and France. The description and analysis are organized in three topics: context and trajectory of the health systems; hospitals and emergency services; and the challenges that are faced. The research carried out interviews, surveys, observation and "groupes de rencontre du travail" / GRT.

Advances and challenges in oral health after a decade of the "Smiling Brazil" Program.

Objective: To analyze oral health work changes in primary health care after Brazil's National Oral Health Policy Guidelines were released.

Methods: A literature review was conducted on Medline, LILACS, Embase, SciELO, Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde, and The Cochrane Library databases, from 2000 to 2013, on elements to analyze work changes. The descriptors used included: primary health care, family health care, work, health care policy, oral health care services, dentistry, oral health, and Brazil.

The health care model: concepts and challenges for primary health care in Brazil.

This is a theoretical reflection aiming to highlight the conceptual debate about the health care model and the challenges for primay health care in Brazil. The study characterizes different concepts and terminologies relating to the expression 'care model' and shows that the Family Health Strategy has improved access to health care, and also including user reception and humanization perspectives in health practices. However, one still sees: a centralizing attitude in the treatment of pathologies, and care focused on the biological body; difficulties in implementing comprehensive care; and deficits in training of teams, and in working conditions and relations.

[Implementation of telemedicine in indigenous people?s healthcare in Brazil].

The Brazilian National Telemedicine Program in indigenous healthcare assists health professionals working in remote areas in strengthening the healthcare provided to indigenous populations. The current study aimed to analyze the implementation of the National Telemedicine Program in indigenous people's health, from the perspective of health administrators. This was a qualitative exploratory descriptive study using document analysis and open-ended interviews with 10 administrators.

[The implementation of interdisciplinarity in the work routine of the family health care team].

Interdisciplinarity in the work routine of professionals of a Residency Course on Family Health in Southern Brazil was investigated in a qualitative study involving 11 residents and 5 supervisors of seven professions. Through interviews, observations and focal groups the existence of interdisciplinarity in practice was analyzed, duly identifying favorable and unfavorable aspects for its implementation. Interdisciplinarity was expressed as a complex process and concrete action, which occurs in the dramatic implications of its usage, in a dialectical relationship with the political and institutional context.

Collective work: a challenge for health management.

Based on ergology and work process theorization, the study aims to contribute to reflections on health collective work, emphasizing its specificity and difficulties in building and managing groups of workers. It deals with work as a human activity that dialectically comprises the application of a prescribed protocol and a unique and historical perspective. Health work involves a relationship among individuals who act in the drama of using themselves and manage their own work; it is influenced by the history of health professions and macro-political determinations.

[New educational strategies: evaluation of the Jury Trial technique for training council members in women's health in Santa Catarina, Brazil].

This article describes and evaluates the Jury Trial technique, an innovative educational instrument used in a pilot workshop on Social Control and Gender by health council members in Greater Metropolitan Florian polis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The reliability and validity were studied based on the participants' opinions, complemented by qualitative observation of the work. There was consensus in acceptance of the technique based on "acquisition of knowledge" and the fact that it was participatory, democratic, and dynamic.