HEALTH CENTERS AS SEEN BY A PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE

Violence seen as public health issue.

[Citizenship, community participation, and health as seen by health care professionals: a case study in public health services].

This paper deals with the subject of citizenship and people's participation in the health area through an analysis of ideas pertaining to a specific group: health care professionals working in Basic Health Care Clinics in the 3.1 Programmatic Area of the City of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). The article analyzes their views on the subject and presents them in light of health-related legislation in t...

Public health nurse educators’ conceptualisation of public health as a strategy to reduce health inequalities: a qualitative study

BACKGROUND Nurses have long been identified as key contributors to strategies to reduce health inequalities. However, health inequalities are increasing in the UK despite policy measures put in place to reduce them. This raises questions about: convergence between policy makers' and nurses' understanding of how inequalities in health are created and sustained and educational preparation for the...

Perinatal Mental Health: A Public Health Concern

letter to the editor does not have abstract.

A Case for Open Network Health Systems: Systems as Networks in Public Mental Health

Increases in incidents involving so-called confused persons have brought attention to the potential costs of recent changes to public mental health (PMH) services in the Netherlands. Decentralized under the (Community) Participation Act (2014), local governments must find resources to compensate for reduced central funding to such services or “innovate.” But innovation, even when pressure for c...