Health needs: an analysis of Brazilian scientific literature from 1990 to 2004

Autor: Célia Maria Sivalli Campos, Marcel Oliveira Bataiero, Luisa Maria Larcher Caliri Juzzo
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Interface: Comunicação, Saúde, Educação, Vol 3, Iss se (2007)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1414-3283
Popis: This paper assumes that the health services' responses to health needs were affected by the regulation of the Brazilian public health system. The study objective is to identify the health-service trends found in scientific publications. Among the 73 publications selected from the LILACS on-line database, 66 (90.4%) did not mention the concept of health needs. Those that did had a reflective stance toward the subject. Health needs as defined in those articles were similar for all individuals, not considering them as members of a social class, a circumstance that defines health-needs characteristics. The results of this study are worrisome because health care delivery has been emphasizing sickness and reinforcing classification practices, rather than enabling emancipating praxis.
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