COVID-19: repercussions of nursing, structuring and resolutivity of national health systems.

Aim: To analyze the repercussions of Nursing, the structuring and resolution of National Health Systems in facing the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in selected countries.

Method: Reflection article on the confrontation of COVID-19 by the National Health Systems of China, United States of America, Italy, United Kingdom, Portugal, Cuba and Brazil, from information disseminated in different media and in the literature.

Results: The response of health systems depended more on political decisions than on their structuring and organization.

Care handover to chronic conditions to regionalized planning.

Objective: To analyze the possibilities of the transition from care to the problem of chronic illness due to the need of regionalized municipal planning.

Method: An exploratory qualitative study was carried out in one of the Health Regions of Rio Grande do Sul, together with the Primary Health Care Coordinators.

Results: The final thematic categories that emerged from the results were: "The relationship between municipalities of the Health Region and health planning", Organizational flow of care of users with chronic diseases", and "Managing care in the health system: meeting the demands of chronically sick users".