Proposals for the work management and education in the healthcare field to strengthen Brazilian National Health System

Este documento propositivo foi delineado no âmbito do 13º Congresso Brasileiro de Saúde Coletiva, realizado em novembro de 2022. O evento congregou 6,8 mil pessoas imbuídas de esperança pela eleição de um governo progressista e democrático, além de um espírito de articulação, integração e de defesa de direitos. O documento foi escrito com o objetivo de contribuir para a formulação de soluções para problemas enfrentados pela sociedade brasileira, apresentando propostas à comissão de transição do governo federal que são caras à área de gestão do trabalho e educação na saúde e caminham na direção de um Sistema Único de Saúde forte e igualitário.This propositional document was outlined within the scope of the 13th Brazilian Congress of Collective Health, held in November 2022. The event brought together 6,800 people imbued with hope for the election of a progressive and democratic government, as well as a spirit of articulation, integration, and defense of rights. The document was designed with the objective of contributing to formulating necessary solutions for problems faced by the Brazilian society, presenting proposals to the federal government’s transition commission that are dear to the work management and education in the healthcare field and move towards a strong and egalitarian Brazilian National Health System

Innovations in courts: Validation of a scale of technological innovation

The development of studies on technological innovations in the public sector, specifically in justice system, is still little explored in the literature. This article aimed to develop and validate a scale of technological innovation in the justice system during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data collection procedures were carried out by means of questionnaires sent to 20.727 e-mails of civil servants and judges of the state courts of justice in Brazil. The relationships among the innovation variables that make up the technological innovation construct in the Brazilian judiciary were studied. The factor analyses resulted in the main factors listed by the respondents, as the innovative trend factor (IT); technological resources factor (TR); governance factor and its evidence (G); and innovation and technology factor (IT). For responses to the studies, descriptive statistical analysis was performed, and the innovative sensitivity and technological integration variables presented greater commonalities, and the two factors extracted explain 74% and 67% of the variance. After the descriptive statistical treatment, the confidence level was 99% and the error margin was 4.87%, resulting in a sample of 679 respondents

Cascading Crises: Society in the Age of COVID-19

The tsunami of change triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed society in a series of cascading crises. Unlike disasters that are more temporarily and spatially bounded, the pandemic has continued to expand across time and space for over a year, leaving an unusually broad range of second-order and third-order harms in its wake. Globally, the unusual conditions of the pandemic—unlike other crises—have impacted almost every facet of our lives. The pandemic has deepened existing inequalities and created new vulnerabilities related to social isolation, incarceration, involuntary exclusion from the labor market, diminished economic opportunity, life-and-death risk in the workplace, and a host of emergent digital, emotional, and economic divides. In tandem, many less advantaged individuals and groups have suffered disproportionate hardship related to the pandemic in the form of fear and anxiety, exposure to misinformation, and the effects of the politicization of the crisis. Many of these phenomena will have a long tail that we are only beginning to understand. Nonetheless, the research also offers evidence of resilience on several fronts including nimble organizational response, emergent communication practices, spontaneous solidarity, and the power of hope. While we do not know what the post COVID-19 world will look like, the scholarship here tells us that the virus has not exhausted society’s adaptive potential

The Global Employer: The Employment Law Reform Issue

[Excerpt] In this issue of The Global Employer Employment Law Reform issue, we explore recent reforms and their likely impact on employers in 10 jurisdictions, and also provide a roundup of trends and hot topics in other regions