<b>Avaliação no sistema de saúde brasileiro /Evaluation in the brazilian health system<b>

Evidence-based health technology assessments for the Brazilian National Health System (Sistema Unico de Saúde, SUS) and for all.

[Health reform and the creation of the Sistema Único de Saúde: notes on contexts and authors].

Within the context of the return to democracy, the new constitution enacted in 1988 transformed health into an individual right and initiated the process of creating a public, universal and decentralized health system, profoundly altering the organization of public health in Brazil. This article discusses the main institutional, political and social aspects of this health reform, along with the...

Costs for in hospital treatment of urinary lithiasis in the Brazilian public health system Custo do tratamento hospitalar da litíase urinária para o Sistema Único de Saúde brasileiro

Objective: To estimate costs associated to hospital treatment of urinary lithiasis in the Brazilian public health system as well as to evaluate demographic and epidemiological data referred to hospital admissions in the Brazilian public health system (or unified health care system). Methods: Data from the Informatic Department of Brazilian public health system were obtained as referred to costs...

[Revista de Saúde Pública: forty years of Brazilian scientific production].

OBJECTIVE To recognize the characteristics and path taken by the through analysis of the scientific production it has published over the period from 1967 to 2005. METHODS Scientometric methods were used to analyze reference data on the articles published in the Revista, retrieved from the databases ISI/Thomson Scientific (Web of Science), National Library of Medicine (PubMed) and Scientific E...

Sistema de registro eletrônico de saúde baseado na Norma ISO 13606: aplicações na Secretaria de Estado de Saúde de Minas Gerais

Achieving semantic interoperability between Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems is critical to the future of health services. Therefore, global initiatives have developed information models that seek to promote such interoperability. The openEHR Foundation’s two-level modelling is one of those proposals, and the ISO 13606 standard has adopted the principles of this modeling approach. While t...