Home Care in Supplementary Health: A Device of Positive Reconstruction

Objective: Understanding how home health care is delivered in the Home Health Care Program\u27 (PAD) as supplementary health care and to verify the relations between the team, the beneficiaries and family members.\u2

[social Pediatrics And Its Reformist Proposals].

This article reflects on the constitution of Social Pediatrics in Brazil, viewing it as a movement for reform in children's health care involving teaching, services, and pediatric practice. The article includes a historical and bibliographical review of the Social Pediatrics' field and the provision of children's health care, analyzing its relations with movements for the reform of medical education and health care and its conceptual framework, including several authors' definitions and formulations on the theme.17977-8

Public health, local health units, and the Brazilian health system

This article focuses on the development of public health in Brazil, with the aim of analyzing the present process of decentralization of health care. The authors argue that the neoliberal or conservative position is unable to offer a reasonable solution to problems in the health care system. On the other hand, the reformist position concentrates its attention on the health system and its administration, taking as its model a positivistic approach to natural and administrative sciences. The authors further argue that only a radical change in the prevailing medical paradigm and a predominance of social over biological aspects would meet the health needs of the population.Este artigo focaliza o desenvolvimento da saúde pública no Brasil com o intuito de analisar os problemas com os quais se depara o processo atual de municipalização dos serviços de saúde. Argumenta-se que a postura neoliberal ou conservadora tornou-se incapaz de articular uma proposta viável para o sistema de saúde. Por outro lado, a proposta reformista concentra sua atenção no sistema de saúde e sua administração, tendo como modelo a postura positivista das ciências naturais e administrativas. Argumenta-se que apenas uma mudança radical no paradigma da medicina, na qual a dimensão coletiva e social predomina sobre a dimensão biológica e individual, permitiria conciliá-la com as necessidades de saúde da população.17718