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

Oral health in Brazil--part I: public oral health policies.

This paper reviews the historical development of public health policies in Brazil and the insertion of oral health in this context. Since 1988, Brazil established a Unified National Health System ("Sistema Unico de Saúde"--SUS), which was conceived to assure access to health actions and services, including oral health. However, a history of lack of access to health services and the health probl...

Social representations of the Brazilian national health care system in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, according to the structural approach.

The Brazilian National Health Care System The Single Health System (SHS) [SUS-Sistema Unico de Saúde] faces difficulties for its effective implementation. This paper aims to characterize the contents and the social representation structure of the Brazilian health care system among health care professionals in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The concept of social memory and the theory of social repr...

Economic evaluation of antipsychotic drugs for schizophrenia treatment within the Brazilian Healthcare System.

OBJECTIVE To assess the cost-utility of first and second-generation antipsychotics for treatment of schizophrenia. METHODS A five-year Markov model was constructed based on a survey of the records of patients seen in 2006 at a psychosocial care center in the municipality of Florianopolis, Southern Brazil. Costs were evaluated from the perspective of the Sistema Unico de Saúde (SUS - Unified H...

Severe maternal morbidity identified in the Hospital Information System of the Brazilian National Health System in Paraná State, Brazil, 2010.

OBJECTIVE to describe near miss maternal morbidity among women living in Paraná State, Brazil, in 2010. METHODS this was a descriptive study using Brazilian National Hospital Information System (SIH/SUS) data on all hospital admissions with primary diagnosis falling under Chapter XV of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision and/or wi...

The 25th anniversary of Epidemiology and Health Services: journal of the Brazilian National Health System and its MEDLINE® indexing.