Comprehensive health care: dilemmas and challenges in nursing.

Objective: this article discusses comprehensive care as a guiding tenet of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS), outlining health care practices, especially nursing, and the relationships built by subjects in action by means of different knowledge.

Methods: this is a theoretical reflection that aims to propose dimensions of analysis (access to services, reception, links, lines of care, accountability, and responsiveness), with an emphasis on the dilemmas and challenges of nursing. The proposed dimensions analyze the production of care and its political and technical aspects.

[Integrality-building in the care of people with diabetes mellitus in a healthcare unit of Feira de Santana, Bahia State].

This study analyses the care of people with diabetes mellitus (DM), under the light of integrality, through access, bond-accountability, and team formation in a healthcare unit of Feira de Santana, Bahia State. It is a qualitative study adopting a critical and reflexive approach. The subjects were healthcare workers (Group I) and users registered in the diabetes program (Group 2).

[Bond and autonomy of the oral health practice in the Family Health Program].

Objective: To understand the establishment of bond in the construction of autonomy of the subjects who generate the practices of oral health in the Family Health Program.

Methodological Procedures: A critical reflexive approach was undertaken in this qualitative study carried out in Alagoinhas (Northeastern Brazil).

Analysis Of Results: Interviewees taken care of by the oral health team of the Program point out their problems and the treatment they want.

[Conflicting situations in the reception of oral health teams from the Family Health Program in Alagoinhas, Bahia, Brazil].

The study discusses the conflicting situations that arise while receiving oral health teams in Alagoinhas, Bahia, Brazil. The main orientation for the Family Health Program is based on analyzing health care work flowcharts. The current qualitative research used semi-structured interviews and practical observation as the data collection techniques.

[Nurse's conception about the national health system: a way without return].

This study aimed to analyze the conception of the nurse on the National Health System principles and lines of direction and to point the limits, advances and perspectives of the nurse facing the health municipally process in Itabuna-BA. Data were collected through semi-structured interview. The subjects were 13 nurses.

[The nurse in the decentralization process of the health system].

Study about the decentralization process of the health system in the '80s and '90s in the city of Itabuna-BA. It is aimed at describing the city's health decentralization process, identifying the nurse's insertion/participation in this process. Descriptive/qualitative study of exploratory nature that utilized both the semistructured interview and documental analysis for data collection.

[How the family acts regarding the health-disease process of a family member with breast cancer].

Qualitative study performed with ten relatives of cancer patients in two clinics located in Feira de Santana-BA, aiming at analyzing how the family thinks, feels, and acts concerning the disease. Data was collected by means of a semi-structured interview and analyzed by dialectic hermeneutics. Results showed that most interviewees associated cancer and death, and the first reaction concerning the disease was unexpected, with a feeling that "the world has fallen".

[Introductory Training for manager nurses: some possibilities inside the SUS].

This article focuses on Introductory Training as a starting point inside the capacitation process of members from SUS (Sistema Unico de Saúde--Brazilian Public Health System). Its premise is that management practices demand an understanding of the body of knowledge existing in the micro and macro managers' workspaces. By articulating Introductory Training and the management area, such training is deemed strategic for nurses undertaking management positions, as it creates an opportunity for development of technical, administrative, ethical and political competences.