[Intersectoral actions and the recognition of a source of primary care for Brazilian adolescents].

This study aimed to analyze the association between the development of intersectoral actions between school/primary health care (PHC) services and the recognition of a usual source of care of PHC among Brazilian adolescents. This is a cross-sectional study, from the Brazilian National Survey of School Health (2015) conducted with a complex sampling of 97,903 adolescents. The association between intersectoral actions between PHC services and schools and the recognition of a usual source of care of PHC were estimated by the prevalence ratio (PR), using the logistic regression model and considering the sample weight factor with Stata 14.

Trend of incompleteness of the race/color variable in hospitalizations due to COVID-19 whose outcome was death in Brazil, 2020-2022.

Objective: To analyze the incompleteness and trend of incompleteness of the race/color variable in hospitalizations due to COVID-19 whose outcome was death, in Brazil, between April 2020 and April 2022.

Methods: Ecological time series study on the incompleteness of the race/color variable in hospitalizations due to COVID-19 whose outcome was death in Brazil, its macro-regions and Federative Units (FU), by joinpoint regression, calculation of Monthly Percent Change (MPC) and Average Monthly Percent Change (AMPC), based on data from the Hospital Information System of the Unified Health System (SIH/SUS).

Results: The incompleteness of the race/color variable in COVID-19 hospitalizations with a death outcome in Brazil was 25.

Implementation of public health consortiums and regional polyclinics in Bahia state, Brazil.

Public Health Consortiums (PHC) in Brazil represent a strategy to enhance regionalization in the Public Health Care System (SUS in Portuguese) and State/interstate/intermunicipal cooperation. The establishment of regional polyclinics aims to improve access to services with greater technological concentration and closer to users' homes. This study specifically aims to analyze the process of creating PHC and regional polyclinics in Bahia State, based on documental analysis, identifying aspects related to entering the political agenda that facilitate and hinder, the role of state administration, specificities of the composition of these PHC and regional polyclinics.

[Usual source of care and Brazilian adolescent access to Primary Health Care (PHC) services].

We analyzed the association between the recognition of a usual source of care (USC) of Primary Health Care (PHC) and access to services among Brazilian adolescents. This is a cross-sectional study using data from the National Adolescent School-based Health Survey with 68,968 Brazilian adolescents and cluster sampling. Descriptive analyses were carried out with Pearson's χ2 and prevalence ratios (PR) using logistic regression models between access and recognition of USC.

Determinants factors in the recognition of a usual source of care by Brazilian adolescents.

The present study aimed to analyze the demographic, socioeconomic, and health factors and risk behaviors associated with the recognition of a Usual Source of Care (USC), according to gender. This work was a cross-sectional study, based on the National Survey of School Health (2015), conducted with 100,464 Brazilian adolescents. Descriptive analyses were performed based on Pearson's χ2, and the prevalence ratio (PR) through logistic regression models in Stata 14 for each type of USC (Primary Health Care (PHC), Private Practice, Hospital, and Emergency), stratified by sex.

Social movements and the genesis of LGBT health policy in Bahia, Brazil (1979-2014): initial disputes and possible alternatives.

We conducted a socio-historical study covering the period 1979-2014 to explore the genesis of LGBT health policy in Bahia, Brazil, drawing on Pinell's theoretical framework for the sociological analysis of public policy. To analyze the social space, we investigated the trajectories of the agents involved in policy formulation and the relations between these agents and the national social space and field of State power. The agents were predominantly from the scientific, human rights, sexual rights, feminism and AIDS fields, and had a high level of bureaucratic and militant capital, meaning they were well-versed in LGBT health issues.

Characteristics of the community health agent's work in the COVID-19 pandemic in municipalities of Northeastern Brazil.

The community health agents (CHAs) comprised the workforce at the forefront of health systems in the fight against COVID-19. The study identified the structural conditions for organizing and characterizing the work of CHAs in three municipalities of northeastern Brazil during the pandemic period. A qualitative study of multiple cases was carried out.

State management of primary health care in response to COVID-19 in Bahia, Brazil.

This is an analysis of state management of Primary Health Care in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Bahia. It is a qualitative case study with interviews with managers and regulatory documents analyzed according to the categories of government project and government capacity. State PHC proposals were debated in the Bipartite Intermanagerial Commission and in the Public Health Operational Emergency Committee.

Organization of primary health care and surveillance in response to COVID-19 in municipalities in the Northeast of Brazil.

The aim of this study was to analyze the organization and development of primary health care and surveillance, including normative frameworks and the implementation of local health actions. Qualitative descriptive multiple-case study involving three municipalities in the state of Bahia. We conducted 75 interviews and a document analysis.

[Heterogeneous governmental responses in confronting the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin American countries].

The study analyzes the development of responses to address the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America. It is a descriptive study based on an analysis of documents, data, and policy measures adopted or announced between March and December 2020 in 14 Latin American countries. The analysis included assessment of the content, tenor, and scope of policy measures for containment and mitigation, health care, and reorganization of health services identified on government websites.

[Control of cervical cancer in the primary care setting in South American countries: systematic reviewControl del cáncer cervicouterino en los servicios de atención primaria de salud en los países de América del Sur: revisión sistemática].

Objective: To describe cervical cancer (CC) prevention and control strategies in the primary care setting in South America.

Method: Two review steps were performed: review of documents published in governmental websites in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela; and systematic review of the literature available in LILACS, MEDLINE, Scopus, SciELO, and Science Direct databases.

Results: Twenty-one institutional documents (plans, practice guides, and national guidelines) and 25 journal articles were included.

Willingness of health care providers to offer HIV self-testing from specialized HIV care services in the northeast of Brazil.

Background: The insufficient knowledge regarding the serological status of people affected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a concern in Brazil. HIV self-testing (HIVST) has been proved to have great potential for increasing testing, especially among vulnerable populations. The large-scale distribution of HIVST by the Brazilian public health system has increased in recent years.

[Institutional support in Primary Health Care in Brazil: an integrative review].

One of the great challenges of the Unified Health System is the need to transcend the disciplinary and controlling character of management and foster the democratic function, to enable greater participation of workers and the community in health management. In order to identify and synthesize institutional support definitions and practices implemented within the scope of Primary Health Care in Brazil, according to the Paidéia method, which advocates institutional democratization and the qualification of service to the population through new management arrangements and devices and the work process, an integrative literature review was carried out for the period from 2005 to 2019. The corpus of analysis included 24 publications that made incipient definitions and operational aspects explicit, weaknesses in the integration between the scope of the expanded clinic and the shared management that should assist in the dialectic between Institutional Support and Matrix Support, there should be the need to strengthen the role of institutional supporter, as a methodological mediator and to reformulate the management and strategy mechanisms for permanent health education within the scope of the Unified Health System.

[Revisiting definitions and natures of intersectoriality: a theoretical essay].

This theoretical essay addresses definitions and central characteristics of intersectoral actions for health. It aims, therefore, to reflect on the knowledge produced about the conceptions and nature of health intersectoral actions. An integrative review was conducted for the construction of the analyses from publications referring to the 2000-2019 period identified in the Lilacs, SciELO, Web of Science, and Science Direct databases.

Causality imputation between herbal products and HILI: An algorithm evaluation in a systematic review.

Algorithms can have several purposes in the clinical practice. There are different scales for causality imputation in DILI (Drug-Induced Liver Injury), but the applicability and validity of these for the HILI (Herb-Induced Liver Injury) evaluation is questionable for some scales. The purpose of the study was to determine the clinical and demographic profile of the patients with HILI, and the main algorithmic scales used in its causality assessment.

[Historical conditions for emergence of the National Policy for Comprehensive LGBT Health in the social space of health in the State of Bahia, Brazil].

This is a health policy analysis with a qualitative approach, consisting of 15 interviews (six administrators and nine LGBT activists). The study aimed to understand the historical conditions for the emergence of the National Policy for Comprehensive LGBT Health (PNSI-LGBT) in the social space of health in the State of Bahia, Brazil. The study was based on Pierre Bourdieu's social theory and the study of the trajectories of the main actors involved in the policy's formalization.

Public expenditure on hospitalizations for COVID-19 treatment in 2020, in Brazil.

Objective: Describe the expenditure resulting from hospitalizations for clinical treatment of users diagnosed with COVID-19 in the Unified Health System (SUS) between February and December 2020.

Methods: This is a descriptive study based on data from the Hospital Information System about government expenditure on hospitalizations for clinical treatment of users diagnosed with COVID-19 and causes included in the ICD-10 chapters. We obtained the number of hospitalizations, average length of stay, lethality rate, and total expenditure considering hospital services, professional services and average expenditure per hospitalization.

Primary care-based health surveillance actions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: contributions to the debate.

We conducted an integrated literature review aimed at reflecting on the challenges related to primary care-based health surveillance actions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in selected countries. The study included countries with different PHC models that adopted surveillance as an approach to control the transmission of COVID-19. We performed a search in October 2020 for relevant literature and norms and guidelines related to the organization of primary health care (PHC) in response to the pandemic on official government websites and the databases Web of Science and Science Direct.

The international response of primary health care to COVID-19: document analysis in selected countries.

This study examines the primary health care (PHC) organization in response to the COVID-19 epidemic. This is a descriptive study based on the document analysis of the countries' responses to the coronavirus pandemic with emphasis on PHC. In various countries, there have been different organizations and impacts of strategies since they have conducted actions according to the local characteristics of disease transmission, demography, public health services organization, and health system's capacity and financing, especially in the PHC area.

Necropolitics and the impact of COVID-19 on the Black community in Brazil: a literature review and a document analysis.

This study discusses to what extent the inclusion, or not, of the race/color variable in epidemiological analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic can work as an external manifestation of necropolitics and as a producer of health inequities. We conducted a literature review on 09 articles, and on Scientific Electronic Library, PubMed and Virtual Health Library databases. We also conducted a documental analysis on 27 epidemiological reports from all the federal states and the Federal District of Brazil.

Community health workers: reflections on the health work process in Covid-19 pandemic times.

This study discusses the reorganization of the Community Health Workers (CHWs) work process as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, considering its importance as a link between the community and the health services in the field of basic care. The literature review comes from the following databases: Virtual Health Library, Scientific Electronic Library Online, and the Brazilian Scientific Publications Portal databases in open access and document review of technical and normative notes from the Municipal Health Secretariats in Brazil. The analysis was based on the premises of Primary Health Care and on the axes of the CHW work, especially cultural competence and community orientation, aiming to discuss the changes introduced in this work regarding the following aspects: 1) health teams support, 2) use of telehealth, and 3) health education.

Challenges and proposals for scaling up COVID-19 testing and diagnosis in Brazil.

The Brazilian context of social inequalities and barriers in accessing health services may deteriorate the situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, which already affects all Brazilian federative states, with the growing curve of increasing confirmed cases and deaths. National governments and scientific field agents have been looking for evidence for the best practices of prevention and control of transmission, and care of infection and disease, including diagnosis, treatment, and health care measures. The large-scale testing strategy, aimed at early diagnosis, quarantine of the mild cases identified, as well as those of the contacts, and adequate care of severe cases, has been revised and indicated as one of the efficient pandemic control measures in several countries in the world.

[Excessive alcohol intake and dissatisfaction with body image among adolescents and young adults in a municipality in Bahia State, Brazil].

The study aimed to analyze the association between excessive alcohol intake and dissatisfaction with one's body image in a population of adolescents and young adults. This was a cross-sectional study with a household survey design in a sample of 1,582 individuals 15 to 24 years of age living in Camaçari, Bahia State, Brazil. Excessive alcohol intake was identified by the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT), and dissatisfaction with body image was measure with the Silhouette Figure Scale.

PROSPECTIVE MONITORING OF DRUG USE: DRUG-INDUCED LIVER INJURY IN A PRIMARY HEALTHCARE CENTER.

Background: Drug-induced liver injury is still misunderstood in Brazil due to diagnostic difficulties or lack of reporting incidents.

Objective: To assess the frequency of adverse events related to the use of medicines in a primary healthcare unit, in a city locate southwestern of the state of Bahia, Brazil.

Methods: Prospective study conducted at the Primary Center for Specialized Health (CEMEA), February at August of 2013 in Vitoria da Conquista, Bahia, Brazil.