Displaced Persons: Protection and Assistance Challenges

Are we reaching refugees and internally displaced persons?

Public health communication is the production and exchange of information to inform, influence or motivate the target audience to enable desirable, sustainable health practices at individual, community and institutional levels. This paper explores key issues relating to health communication in refugees and other displaced populations, i.e. the “hardly reached”.1 Though there are several challen...

Public Health Equity in Refugee and Other Displaced Persons Settings

National Assistance for Mentally Handicapped Persons

Challenges in an Assistance World

The development of small and embedded devices, smart interaction techniques, and integration in an ubiquitous data access environment enable the support of humans in daily life. A systematic engineering of situation-aware assistance systems needs methods, models, and techniques that use knowledge on human actions. In this paper, we address challenges of engineering assistance systems: Models of...

Access to surgical assistance: challenges and perspectives1

Objective: to characterize the access to surgical assistance in Brazil. Method: documentary study, with a quantitative approach, developed from information of the Caixa Preta da Saúde [Health Black Box] database, of the Brazilian Medical Association. Results: in the one-year period 3773 cases related to health care in Brazil were recorded. There were 458 (12.3%) records on surgical assistance. ...