Política Pública

The present report describes the process of convergence between the Brazilian National School Feeding Program (PNAE) and the Brazilian National Textbook Program (PNLD), highlighting a project that introduced diet and nutrition topics on the covers of textbooks distributed at no cost to all public schools in Brazil. This intersectoral initiative speaks directly to the recommendations of the Dietary Guidelines for the Brazilian Population, the principles of the Nutrition Education Framework for Public Policies, and the proposals laid out in the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition...

This paper describes a dataset about institutional and interpersonal trust, life satisfaction and health in Cali, one of the major cities in Colombia, South America. Data was collected with the purpose of monitoring trust levels in the population and to serve as baseline information to monitor changes in population trust after the implementation of government interventions aimed at increasing institutional trust. Data was collected in 2017 with subsequent waves in 2018 and 2019, this manuscript presents data collected in 2017, which corresponds to the data analyzed in the paper related to this manuscript...

ABSTRATO: FUNDO: A depressão é uma das principais causas de incapacidade crônica em todo o mundo e um importante fator de risco cardiovascular, aumentando o risco relativo de doença arterial coronariana, bem como as taxas de morbimortalidade cardiovascular. Concomitantemente à alta prevalência de depressão, houve uma redução na exposição à luz solar com o aumento da urbanização e do uso de protetores solares, o que levou a uma redução nos níveis séricos de 25-hidroxivitamina D...

Resumen: Este estudio se enfoca en cómo un grupo de inmigrantes originarios del estado de Yucatán, en México, y quienes viven en el sur de California, atienden las enfermedades que les aquejan y cómo articulan sus prácticas de atención con sus condiciones socioeconómicas, su estatus migratorio y acceso a los servicios de salud institucionales. La metodología elegida fue de corte cualitativo, a través de entrevistas se recopilaron datos etnográficos analizados con el software MAXQDA12. Las modalidades de las trayectorias en la búsqueda de atención son complejas al ser articulaciones a través de las cuales los entrevistados enfrentan las barreras estructurales para acceder a servicios médicos, y por constituirse al mismo tiempo como una síntesis dinámica de los sistemas de conocimiento científico y del saber popular...

This paper aimed to identify and analyze in national and international literature whether and how the theme of violence is addressed in the studies of public policies for older adults in Long-Term Care Institutions (LTCI). We conducted an integrative review of the published literature between 2010 and August 2016. The primary bibliographic databases were consulted using descriptors "idoso", "políticas públicas", "instituição de longa permanência para idosos", "asilo", "casa de repouso" and "ILPI" in Portuguese and their equivalent in English and Spanish...

Introducción: Asturias es reconocida por su riqueza natural y paisajística y por su rica tradición gastronómica. Objetivos: conocer la identidad gastronómica tradicional de Asturias y su relación con los hábitos de consumo alimentario, la ingesta nutricional y los indicadores de salud de la población. Métodos: búsqueda bibliográfica (PubMed, Google Scholar) con distintas combinaciones de las palabras clave. Resultados: Asturias tiene una gastronomía caracterizada por una gran variedad de alimentos y platos, con preparaciones culinarias emblemáticas...

INTRODUCTION: An integral diagnosis of population contemplates within its components the population demographic analysis that is indispensable in the formulation of public policies. Population policy has a clearly transversal nature, since all actions in the economic, social, political, cultural, geographical, and obviously, demographic fields, have direct or indirect repercussions on it. OBJECTIVES: To determine the population dynamics and the global growth of the older adult population (OAP) of 60 years and more...

As a consequence of the Presidential Decree that reforms and additions the General Statute of Health with regard to medicinal and scientific use of tetrahydrocannabinol, its isomers and stereochemical variants, the National Academy of Medicine of Mexico declares its position in favor of regulating investigation and national production thereof.

OBJECTIVE: to examine the problems and challenges facing implementation of policies for Brazilian adolescents, on the basis of narrative review of the findings of the National Survey of School Health (PeNSE). O objetivo do artigo é analisar os principais problemas e desafios para a implementação de políticas públicas voltadas para a adolescência brasileira a partir de revisão narrativa dos resultados da Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde do Escolar (PeNSE). Ensaio teórico sobre políticas públicas produzido a partir de revisão narrativa das três edições da PeNSE...

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OBJECTIVE: Describir el papel de la percepción del gusto como factor de riesgo para el desarrollo de obesidad en niños. MATERIALS AND METHODS: ulos científicos publicados en PubMed entre el 1 de enero de 2011 y el 20 de marzo de 2016 para el tema sobrepeso y obesidad en niños de entre 0 y 12 años. Los algoritmos utilizados fueron (Obesity OR Overweight) AND Taste perception, Satiation, Satiety response, Appetite, Appetite regulation, Habituation, Taste receptors [MeSH] y PROP phenotype...

Objective: To assess the prevention by primary health care providers of chronic complications of diabetes mellitus according to the complex thinking theoretical approach. Method: Evaluative research based on the complex thinking theoretical approach. The following techniques for data collection were used: interviews with 38 participants; observation in collective and individual appointments; and analysis of medical records of people with diabetes. The triangulation applied for data analysis was the ATLAS...

Smoking is the most preventable and controllable health risk. Therefore, all health care professionals should give their utmost attention to and be more focused on the problem of smoking. Tobacco is a highly profitable product, because of its large-scale production and great number of consumers. Smoking control policies and treatment resources for smoking cessation have advanced in recent years, showing highly satisfactory results, particularly in Brazil. However, there is yet a long way to go before smoking can be considered a controlled disease from a public health standpoint...

The contemporary context of population aging, itsthe population's different health and disease characteristics, and the growing incorporation of technologies by healthcare systems have highlighted the need to adjust the healthcare structure as a whole. The defense of a democratic and sustainable system reveals the importance of understanding how changes in healthcare take place. The current article aims to contribute to the understanding of innovation in healthcare services. The study's results indicate that the existence of certain knowledge gaps means that public policies tend to overlook a whole rangeseries of innovations normally associated with social changes, with a consequentwith an impact on human development, social cohesion, equality, and equity, allcentral issues that are central toin the field of collective public healthcare field...

The article analyzes the configuration and trends in institutions of Higher Education and their relationship as components of the Health Economic-Industrial Complex (HEIC). The expansion of higher education is part of the transition from elite to mass systems, with tensions between quantitative and qualitative aspects. Such changes reflect different cultures and are related to international phenomena such as globalization, economic transformations, the development of new information and communication technologies, and the emergence of an international knowledge network...

The Brazilian pharmaceutical industry is heavily dependent on external sources of inputs, capital, and technology. However, the emergence of technological opportunities and the development of biotechnology and the decline of the patent boom and resulting advances by generic drugs have opened windows of opportunities for the local industry. The article examines the Brazilian industry's innovative behavior vis-à-vis these opportunities, showing that although the industry as a whole invests little in innovation, a few large Brazilian companies have expanded their market share and stepped up their investments in research and development, supported by public policies for innovation...

This text main objective is to discuss development and health from the perspective of the influence of global health governance, using as the tracer the dimension of research, development, and innovation policies in health, which relate to both important inputs for the health system, like drugs and medicines, vaccines, diagnostic reagents, and equipment, and innovative concepts and practices for the improvement of health systems and public health. The authors examine the two main macro-processes that influence development and health: the post-2015 Development Agenda and the process under way in the World Health Organization concerning research and development, intellectual property, and access to health inputs...

Objetivo: el propósito del estudio fue relacionar la etapa en el cambio en el comportamiento frente a la actividad física y el estado nutricional en escolares de Bogotá, Colombia, pertenecientes al estudio FUPRECOL.Método: se trata de un estudio transversal, realizado en 8.000 niños y adolescentes de entre 9 y 17 años, pertenecientes a 24 instituciones educativas. Se aplicó de manera autodiligenciada el cuestionario de cambio de comportamiento en función de la intención de realizar actividad física (CCC-FUPRECOL) y se midió el peso y la estatura para determinar el estado nutricional con el índice de masa corporal (IMC)...

This study describes the scientific production on oral health diffused in Revista de Saúde Pública, in the 50 years of its publication. A narrative review study was carried out using PubMed, as it is the search database that indexes all issues of the journal. From 1967 to 2015, 162 manuscripts specifically focused on oral health themes were published. This theme was present in all volumes of the journal, with increasing participation over the years. Dental caries was the most studied theme, constantly present in the journal since its first issue...

OBJECTIVE: To identify ideological knowledge and tool knowledgethat provide support to the Street Outreach Office working process. METHOD: Qualitative and exploratory research. TwentyStreet Outreach Office professionals and six users collected the data, applying different semi-structured interview schedules for each category of participants. The resulting categories were analyzed in light of tool and ideological knowledge presented in the working process. RESULTS: From the participant discourses the following ideological knowledge emerged: public policies and the needs of the person ina street situation and tool knowledge, as well as devices and tools for the care of people in street situations and a weekly schedule...