Dehospitalisation at a general hospital in Minas Gerais: challenges and prospects.

Objective: To analyse the dehospitalisation process at a general public hospital in Minas Gerais, Brazil, from the perspective of managers, health workers, users and their families.

Methods: This is a qualitative, exploratory, descriptive study based on the principles of methodological and theoretical dialectics. The participants were 24 hospital health workers and 15 companions of users going through the process of dehospitalisation.

Trends in the job market of nurses in the view of managers.

Objective: to identify and interpret the main trends of the labor market for nurses in Rio Grande do Norte, based on the opinion of managers of training institutions and employers.

Method: Data were collected through interviews with key informants, organized using Atlas.ti software resources and examined under the thematic content review.

Permanent education in healthcare services: educational activities developed in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Objective: To analyse educational activities carried out in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, considered permanent education in healthcare.

Method: This is a mixed methods study with a qualitative approach and the participation of 492 municipal health departments. Data were collected in March and October 2014 through interviews available online.

Rehabilitation of children and adolescents with myelomeningocele: the daily life of mothers-caregiversRehabilitation of children and adolescents with myelomeningocele: the daily life of mothers-caregivers.

Objective: To analyze the daily routine of mothers-caregivers of children and adolescents with myelomeningocele at home.

Method: Descriptive, exploratory, qualitative research. Data were collected with 16 mothers of children and adolescents with myelomeningocele by means of interviews and observation from May to August 2015, in municipalities of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Courses offered by the Minas Health Channel: perception of primary care workers.

Objective: To analyse how primary healthcare workers perceive the impact of the Health Channel Mines courses in their work process.

Method: This is a descriptive exploratory qualitative study conducted with 38 professionals working in primary health care units of three municipalities in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Data were collected in 2014 by means of semi-structured interviews and subjected to thematic content analysis.

Migrant nurses in Brazil: demographic characteristics, migration flow and relationship with the training process.

Objective: to analyze the migration of nurses in Brazil, describe the demographic characteristics of migrant nurses, the main migration flows, and establish relationships with the training process.

Method: a descriptive, exploratory study, based on 2010 Census data. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics.

[Supply and demand in home health care].

The changes in the demographic and epidemiologic profiles of the Brazilian population and the need to rethink the health care model have led many countries like Brazil to consider Home Care (HC) as a care strategy. However, there is a gap between the supply of HC services, the demand for care and the health needs manifested by the population. Thus, this article analyzes scientific output regarding the status of the relation between supply, demand and the needs related to home health care.

Health promotion in supplementary health care: outsourcing, microregulation and implications for care.

Objective: to analyze health promotion programs in the supplementary health care.

Methods: This was a multiple case study with a qualitative approach whose data were obtained from interviews with coordinators of providers contracted by the corporations of health insurance plans in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. The data were submitted to Critical Discourse Analysis.

[Intersectoriality, social and environmental determinants and health promotion].

The study seeks to analyze intersectoriality from the socio-environmental perspective on health promotion. Qualitative research was conducted in six municipalities in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The data were obtained from the mapping of health promotion experiences considered successful by municipal managers, interviews with coordinators, professionals and participants and observations of participants of the practices.

[Health promotion: challenges revealed in successful practices].

Objective: To examine successful practices of health promotion in health, education, culture, welfare and sport, leisure, identifying the elements of success and challenges in the field.

Methods: A qualitative study with data obtained from in-depth analysis that included participant observation, interviews with managers, coordinators, professionals and participants from 29 practices reported as successful for promoting health in six municipalities of the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, MG, Southeastern Brazil, in 2011. The variables of the study were concept, dimension, dissemination and ease of access, identified in practices guided by content analysis.

[Expansion of undergraduate courses in nursing: dilemmas and contradictions facing the labor market].

We sought to analyze, from the perspective of professors and students, the reasons and consequences of the expansion of undergraduate courses in nursing, discussing the dilemmas and the contradictions confronting the labor market. It was a qualitative study with data obtained from focus groups, conducted in 18 undergraduate nursing courses in the state of Minas Gerais, during the period of February to October of 2011. The narratives were submitted to critical discourse analysis.

[Expansion of undergraduate nursing and the labor market: reproducing inequalities?].

This study aimed to analyze the relationship between the increase in the number of degree courses in nursing and the nursing job market. It is a descriptive exploratory study with a quantitative approach, which used data on Undergraduate Nursing courses, supply of nurses, connection with health facilities, and formal jobs in nursing in the state of Minas Gerais. The evolution of Undergraduate Nursing courses reveals a supply and demand decline in recent years.

Nursing as a supportive partner of the Brazilian National Health System.

This article is based on the authors' reflections from following the successive accumulations of the Brazilian National Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde - SUS). We present our evaluation of the SUS, emphasizing what we consider to be the utmost progresses, recognizing the need to reaffirm a present agenda of political and social commitments for the System. We defend that Brazilian nursing, with the processes of professionalizing its workers, is a strong partner of the SUS.

The everyday health of the young individuals of a popular neighborhood of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

The object of this study was the everyday health of young individuals considering that their experiences are not contemplated in the health actions. The objective is to analyze the juvenile lifestyles learning the meanings and senses of health in their everyday life. This is a qualitative investigation, founded on dialectics, based on everyday life sociology.

[Epidemiological profile of the elderly population in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil].

This is a descriptive study using the data side of the municipal secretariat for coordination of social policy in Belo Horizonte, whose purpose was to describe the epidemiological profile of elderly population of this city. The elderly in Belo Horizonte in 2000 represent 9.1% of total population residing therein.

Home care as change of the technical-assistance model.

Objective: To analyze home care practices of outpatient and hospital services and their constitution as a substitute healthcare network.

Methodological Procedures: A qualitative study was carried out using tracer methodology to analyze four outpatient home care services from the Municipal Health Department and one service from a philanthropic hospital in the municipality of Belo Horizonte, Southeastern Brazil, between 2005 and 2007. The following procedures were carried out: interviews with the home care services' managers and teams, analysis of documents and follow-up of cases, holding interviews with patients and caregivers.

[Work process in the neonatal intensive care unit: building a holistic-oriented care].

This is a qualitative study aimed at analyzing the performance of healthcare professionals, as well as their contribution to a holistic-oriented care towards newborn babies in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The study was carried out in the Sofia Feldman Hospital, in Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The study's subjects were ten healthcare professionals who cared for newborns in the NICU, and seven parents of admitted newborns.

[Practice of family health teams: challenges for the promotion of health care].

This article shows the results of a study which analyzed healthcare actions carried out by Family Health Teams. It is a qualitative research carried out in Belo Horizonte and Contagem, state of Minas Gerais. The subjects were 28 members of the Family Health Team.

[Nursing education and the challenges for health promotion].

This is a descriptive-exploratory study with qualitative approach whose objective was analyze the health promotion on nursing education. The subjects were teachers, students & professionals whom receive the students on the scenarios of learningship of two courses of graduation in Minas Gerais/Brazil. The results indicate the incorporation of health promotion as a referencing for nursing formation favored by schoolservice articulation as well as an important strategy.

[Disease-related absenteeism among nursing team members in a teaching hospital].

The article presents results of the research that identified to causes of disease-related absenteeism, justified by medical license, among nursing employees of a public hospital in Montes Claros, MG, Brazil. This is a descriptive-exploratory study. Results indicate that the main reasons for absenteeism are related to musculoskeletal problems and to respiratory diseases; mainly between married female nurse aides, with age between 25 and 45 years, that works in day shift and with more than one employment.

[Unveiling the routine of informal caregivers for the elderly].

This article intends to describe how the informal caregivers interpret and build their daily routine. It is a qualitative study using dialectics as the theoretical-methodological framework. The instrument for data colection was individual interviews with five caregivers for elderly in homes in the Family Health Program, in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais State, Brazil.

[Comprehensive health care: indications from the training of nurses].

This study has the objective of understanding the training of nurses for comprehensive health care. It used data from interviews with teachers, students and service nurses submitted to discourse analysis. There is an understanding of comprehensive care in the training of nurses from the perspective of establishing a healthcare model in which care is directed to the patient.

Brazilian nursing and professionalization at technical level: a retrospective analysis.

This article presents a retrospective analysis of the Brazilian Nursing concerning the professionalization of workers at technical level. It also provides some indication about the trends of professional education. There is a clear indication of increased intellectual and conceptual accumulation in the four decades the professional education in nursing at technical level has been part of the public policy agenda.

[Health promotion as a political decision in nursing education].

It is a descriptive-exploratory study with a qualitative approach that has the objective of analyzing the health promotion in training nurses. The setting of the research was two nursing undergraduate courses in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The results show that both schools used settings favorable to a health promotion approach in this training.

[Health policies and practices toward equity].

The text approaches the inequalities and the social exclusion in health establishing its social, historical, cultural and economic inter-relations and determinations. It points to the iniquities as consequence of the inequalities in the production and distribution of the wealth expressed by access to services and material goods. It discusses the practices of management, in the field of the health, as supporters of the equity, indicating the shared management as a tool that promotes the values of citizenship and respect to the diversity.