Possibilities of the WHOQOL-bref for health promotion in the family health strategy.

By increasing the health promotion actions in the Family Health Strategy it is possible to contribute to implement comprehensive care. Nevertheless, technologies gap still hinder the process of training the professionals to analyze the health potentials of the population. The objective of this study is to synthesize the contributions of the WHOQOL-bref in training professionals regarding the health promotion actions in the Family Health Strategy.

[The concept and practice of comprehensiveness in Primary Health Care: nurses' perception].

The objective of this study is to debate on the nurses' discourse on the concept of health comprehensiveness and how to implement it in primary health care practice. Considering that comprehensiveness is one of the pillars of the Brazilian public health system (SUS) and taking nursing work force as a considerable commission of people to work for the construction of the SUS, the authors considered important to identify the conceptual bases and practices that guide nurses' work towards in the construction of health comprehensiveness. In this qualitative, exploratory study interviews were performed with 10 nurses working in primary health care centers in three cities in the interior state of São Paulo.

[Some perspectives for the analysis of health management in São Paulo State (Brazil)].

The current study aims to reflect the changes made in Secretaria do Estado da Saúde de São Paulo (SES) (São Paulo's Health State Secretariat, Brazil) related to the theoretical management proposals. A brief bibliography research was done, in Lilacs and Scielo databases. Twenty two bibliography sources from the period of 1993 to 2007 were selected.

[Nurses' role in the Family Health Program in Marília/SP].

The Family Health strategy presents itself as an alternative for overcoming the dominant paradigm in the health field. This study aims at identifying the work process of nurses in the Family Health Program (FHP) in the city of Marilia, in the State of São Paulo. The methodology used is based on the Theory of Praxic Intervention in Nursing in General Health proposed by Egry (1996).

[Management work process: review of the literature].

The objective of this paper is to identify how the management work has been studied in scientific publications. The bibliography of management produced in 1989 to 1999 was analyzed. The date was collected in Medline and Lilacs data bases.