scholarly journals Analyzing STD and Aids control policies among brazilian indigenous population

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Vera Lopes dos Santos ◽  
Ximena Pamela Bemúdez ◽  
Luciano Medeiros de Toledo ◽  
Marly Marques Cruz ◽  
Elizabeth Moreira

By consulting secondary data and official information from the Department of STD, AIDS, and Viral Hepatitis of the Ministry of Health, this article analyses the National Health Policy of Indigenous People, particularly, the national health policy that has been implemented regarding STD/HIV/ AIDS control within the Indigenous Special Health Districts. Even though the relevant improvement regarding featuring the epidemic scenario among the indigenous people, the most urgent challenge today is the harmonization of public policies in health with cultural forms of life of these different ethnic groups, its vulnerabilities and the comprehension of the singularities due to cultural alterity.

1981 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-89
Author(s):  
Theodore H. Blau

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Marsden ◽  
Mary E. Shaw ◽  
Sue Raynel

This paper compares the results of studies of ophthalmic advanced practice in two similar but distinct health economies and integrates the effects of the setting, health policy and professional regulation on such roles. A mixed method questionnaire design was used, distributed at national ophthalmic nursing conferences in the UK and in New Zealand. Participants were nurses undertaking advanced practice who opted to return the questionnaire. Data were analysed separately, and are compared here, integrated with national health policy and role regulation to provide commentary on the findings. The findings suggest that health policy priorities stimulate the areas in which advanced practice roles in ophthalmic nursing emerge. The drivers of role development appear similar and include a lack of experienced doctors and an unmanageable rise in healthcare demand. Titles and remuneration are different in the two health economies, reflecting the organisation and regulation of nursing. In clinical terms, there are few differences between practice in the two settings and it appears that the distinct systems of regulation have minimal effect on role development. Ophthalmic nursing, as a reactive, needs based profession and in common with nursing in general, evolves in order that practice reflects what is needed by patients and services.


Author(s):  
Alex Rajczi

Most Americans see the need for a national health policy that guarantees reasonable access to health insurance for all citizens, but some worry that a universal health insurance system would be inefficient, create excessive fiscal risk, or demand too much of them, either by increasing their taxes or by rendering their own health insurance unaffordable. After describing these three objections and the role they play in health care debates, the introduction outlines the contents of each chapter. It concludes with some remarks about how data will be handled in the book’s later chapters.


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