ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To address the implementation of the Lab for Innovation in Chronic Conditions in Santo Antonio do Monte, indicating the main challenges and lessons of a new chronic condition model. METHODS This is an observational study based on two sources of data: 1) two cross-sectional household surveys, 2013 (2012 as reference year) and 2015 (2014 as reference year), representative for the entire population and four target groups (pregnant women; children under two years old; individuals with hypertension and diabetes); […]

OBJECTIVE: To assess changes of knowledge and attitudes and health service access and utilization after the implementation of a community health worker program for oral health promotion. METHODS: A capacity building project including learning, support, and supervision activities was developed between July 2003 and August 2004. A study to assess changes was conducted including 36 community health workers and a representative sample of homemaker literate women and mothers aged 25 to 39 years living in 3- to 6-room dwelling in […]

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the impact of a participatory sexual health promotion program implemented in a poor community and describe how the use of public and private spaces for sex is a factor that exacerbates vulnerability to HIV/Aids. METHODS: This ethnographic study was conducted in a Rio de Janeiro shantytown in 2002. Six thousand people live in precarious living conditions in which the lack of public policies, health posts, recreational activities, employment opportunities, and security consolidates power in criminal groups. Issues […]

In the State of S. Paulo, Brazil, health centers sponsored by the State, as well as private health services, located in throughout large districts, are in charge of the vaccination against the various diseases affecting children, including measles. In the present study three of the above mentioned districts, covering 385 State Health Centers (SHC) and 200 Private Health Services (PHS) were surveyed. From these totals 117 SHC and 71 PHS were chosen for the evaluation of: a) quality of the […]

A study was made aiming at to analyse a referral system developed by a health unit located in a non-organized community and the Prof. Edgard Santos University Teaching Hospital of the Federal University of Bahia. From March, 1971 up to October, 1972, 352 out of 12,665 patients first seen in the health unit were refered by the health team to the university teaching hospital. Out of 352 only 170 got a complete reference during the above period. The value of […]

The study of the kind of lacteal feeding of 667 and 294 children admitted to an Assistential Hospital of S. Paulo City in 1969 and 1972, showed a reduction of breast feeding, in the first year of life, from 5.84% in 1969 to 3.61% in 1972, and of mixed feeding from 5.54% to 4.41%. In the fisrt semester of life, the dropping of breast feeding was from 6.69% in 1969 to 4.81% in 1972, the same occurring with mixed feeding. […]

An evaluation model in order to judge the adequacy of services that give attention to children in public health centers at the local level is presented by the authors. The study was based essentially on and follows the same style preconized by the Discipline of Maternal Health of the S. Paulo University School of Public Health. For each of the seven parameters (physycal plan, material resources, human resources, functioning, programming and coordination with other services, programmes and institutions, personnel training […]

The functions of the sectors of epidemiology and statistics in a health center are analysed. The aim of the section of epidemiology is to characterize the diseases and health problems of the region. The section of statistics is the main feeder of data for epidemiology and other divisions. The paper points out directions for the quantitative and qualitative improvement of collected data. Considerations are made on the use of the sections for teaching and training purposes.

This paper deals with a study made with the purpose of observing dental health, education of patients coming for the first time to a Health Center. The study was carried out during two weeks and 25 patients were observed through “Participant Observation”. Data for the “Educational Diagnosis” was collected in a card specially designed for it. Results showed that dental health orientation was not given by the staff to patients. An educational programme about dental health is suggested to be […]

The author describes the situation of venereal patients care in 340 Health Centers of the State of S. Paulo (Brazil) in 1975, through a questionnaire answered by those technically responsible (doctors) for the Health Centers. The questionnaire also included personal opinions, comments and suggestions. Syphilis and gonorrhoeae are specifically studied in relation to incidence, laboratory diagnosis, therapeutic schemes, health education, as well as the relationship between the Health Center and other medical care agencies.