[Access to uterine cervical cytology in a health region: invisible women and vulnerable bodies].

This article evaluates access to the Papanicolaou test in the Family Health Strategy (FHS) in municipalities in a health region. Cervical cancer control depends on a well-organized Family Health Strategy, so assessment of access to the Papanicolaou test reflects the quality of care at this level. This is a qualitative study with data produced in 10 focus groups, totaling 70 participants in four municipalities.

[Family health nursing care: weaknesses and strengths in the Unified Health System].

Objective: To analyze the weaknesses and strengths of nursing care in the Family Health Strategy and its interfaces with the Unified Health System network.

Method: A qualitative study performed by means of semi-structured interviews and systematic observations, with the participation of a nursing team of 15 people from October of 2012 to January of 2013.

Results: Strengths that were emphasized: the nurse's versatility in conducting users within the unit and the health system, therefore directly acting upon access to these services.

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.

[Access to health services: approaches, concepts, policies and analysis model].

Access to health services is a multifaceted and multidimensional issue involving political, economic, social, organizational, technical and symbolic aspects in establishing access to universal healthcare. This theoretical review paper intends to discuss the different approaches, analyze the context and policies for special groups on access, marking an analysis model delineated by the above aspects, from readings on the topic in question. This analysis reveals a diversity of approaches to access the formulation and implementation of public policies and their potential for changing the organization of the health system.

[(Dis)satisfaction with mental healthcare work: a study in Psychosocial Care Centers].

The scope of this article is to analyze satisfaction in the workplace of mental healthcare professionals who serve in Psychosocial Care Centers (Caps). The research is of a qualitative nature and the data-collecting medium was semistructured interviews with 19 workers of three Caps in Fortaleza, in the Northern Brazilian State of Ceará. The treatment of the empirical material was based upon the analysis of content with an emphasis on the thematic bias.

[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).

[Pharmaceutical assistance in the basic units of health: from the national drug policy to the basic attention to health].

This study of theoretical revision discuss the Pharmaceutical Assistance in the Basic Units of Health, rescuing briefly the history of the National Drug Policy, the mechanisms of financing in the process of health decentralization and Pharmaceutical Assistance on the Basic Attention to Health. The expansion of the population access to the health system has demanded changes on drug distribution in order to increase the coverage and at the same time to reduce costs. It was identified advances in legal and institutional structures: the management decentralization of actions on pharmaceutical assistance; the expansion of the population access to essential medicines; and the establishment of the pharmaceutical assistance in some cities.

[Social participation in mental health: space of construction of citizenship, policy formulation and decision making].

The article approaches the comprehension of professionals that act in the mental health area about the movement of construction of social participation in the health system of Fortaleza, Ceará State. The methodology adopted is based upon qualitative approach. The study was developed with semi-structured interviews with 17 mental health professionals of the city above mentioned.

[Health community agent: subject of the buccal health practice in Alagoinhas, Bahia state].

This study about the work of micro politics was carried out by the Buccal Health Team (ESB) in the Family Health Program (PSF) of Alagoinhas, Bahia State, and has as central theoretical purpose the specific and singular forms in the practice of daily work, using the technologies (hard, light-hard and light). The methodological trajectory is based on the historical-social current in view of a dialectic approach of qualitative nature. The techniques of data collection used were: semi structured interview, observation of the work process and documental analysis.

[Systematic review about the concept of access to health services: planning contributions].

This article aims to discuss the category access to health services and the Planning contributions to building it on SUS. The central discourse axis refers to the connection between theoretic and practice planning on the Collective Health field related to different analysis dimensions of access: economic, technical-assistential, political and symbolic, described theorists in the field. The dimensions evidence contributions of subjects/authors for greatest approximation to the health reality of country; regarding the understanding of symbolic elements that determinate intervention in health-disease process, as well as regarding the different ways of organization of the Health System and policies, observed in its political, economic, technical-assistential components.

[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.

[Epidemiologic surveillance in the local health system].

This is a qualitative study, which aims at analyzing the organization of Epidemiological Vigilance (EV) in the local health system of Feira de Santana-BA, from 1997 to 2001 > in this study the following aspects were considered: organizational structure, resources available (human and material ones), planning, execution, intra and interinstitutional and intersectional articulations, considering the insertion of the city in the "Basic assistance Program". The collection of data was carried out in 3 stages: documental analysis, semi-structured interviews and direct observation with the VE. team.

[Social control and information democratization: a process under construction].

This work aims at a critical reflection on social control as a legal-institutional achievement and its legitimacy conditions, pointing out strategies for information democratization in the local health system. The text was developed according to three thematic units: the first discusses social participation as a legal-institutional achievement; the second analyzes the essential conditions for legitimacy and the third presents information as a fundamental element for management and social control as an unfinished process that is still under construction.

[Epidemiological surveillance and the perspective of field working -- Riberao Preto Municipal Health Secretariat].

This study aimed at analyzing the conformation of the Epidemiological Surveillance Service in Ribeirão Preto Municipal Health Secretariat under the orientation of the principles established by the Unified Health System and the perspective of Health Surveillance in face of the health care municipalization process occurring in the 1990s through the following dimensions: territory; problems; intersectoriality based on positive health concepts and on the paradigm of social health production. By means of a qualitative approach, bibliographical and documentation sources as well as 17 semi-structured interviews were used. Data were analyzed through the thematic analysis technique by which the following themes were identified: from "Monitoring" to "Educating and Preventing": practice in Epidemiological Surveillance--a proposal to work in the territory.