Ciencia & saude coletivaPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-02-28DOI: 10.1590/1413-81232025306.03562025
Eniuce Menezes, Karla Horrana Tenorio Sacani, Gabriel Domingues Justo, João Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci
{"title":"INPAKTS: Platform for managing and monitoring the impact of external interventions and events in DATASUS time series.","authors":"Eniuce Menezes, Karla Horrana Tenorio Sacani, Gabriel Domingues Justo, João Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci","doi":"10.1590/1413-81232025306.03562025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1413-81232025306.03562025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim is to present the INPAKTS platform, an innovative online simplified management tool that allows monitoring, visualization, and projection of the impact of external events, such as public policies or pandemics, on health indicators constructed with data from DATASUS. Ecological study where segmented linear models are constructed for interrupted time series that allow estimating temporal trends and their changes after interventions. From descriptive analysis and proportion comparison tests, several associated factors can be analyzed in addition to the spatial distribution of trend changes after interventions. Analyzing the impact of the pandemic and vaccination against COVID-19 on maternal mortality in the state of Paraná, a significant increase in maternal mortality was found that during the pandemic. However, this trend reversed after the start of vaccination, leading to fewer deaths. INPAKTS allows managers to learn from the past and prepare to respond to external events by making the most assertive decisions, contributing to the health system's resilience.</p>","PeriodicalId":10195,"journal":{"name":"Ciencia & saude coletiva","volume":"30 6","pages":"e03562025"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144494952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ciencia & saude coletivaPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2024-05-25DOI: 10.1590/1413-81232025306.04722024
Rosana Onocko-Campos, Tiago Correia
{"title":"Pandemic: a limited concept for dealing with the public health emergencies that lie ahead.","authors":"Rosana Onocko-Campos, Tiago Correia","doi":"10.1590/1413-81232025306.04722024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1413-81232025306.04722024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is argued that there is a need to question the appropriateness of the concept of \"pandemic\" to enhance responses to global public health emergencies. Drawing from the context of COVID-19 and without overlooking previous outbreaks (such as H1N1 in 2009, Ebola in 2014, or Zika in 2016), attention is directed towards the symbolic, political, and sanitary power associated with pathogens attaining \"pandemic\" status, often at the expense of other pathogens and non-communicable diseases. This discourse invokes Susan Sontag's notion of metaphors. Advocacy is made for the greater suitability of the term 'Public Health Emergencies of International Concern,' notwithstanding the need for heightened transparency and consistency in its attribution. Moreover, it is asserted that the success of fair, equitable, and integrated responses, both in the global north and south, requires much more than mere designations. What is lacking are concrete actions and commitment to health and well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":10195,"journal":{"name":"Ciencia & saude coletiva","volume":"30 6","pages":"e04722024"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144494957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ciencia & saude coletivaPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-03-08DOI: 10.1590/1413-81232025306.03792025
Rocío Fernandez Santos Viniegra, Aluísio Gomes da Silva-Junior
{"title":"Resilience and vulnerability in women's health care during the COVID-19 pandemic: an integrative review.","authors":"Rocío Fernandez Santos Viniegra, Aluísio Gomes da Silva-Junior","doi":"10.1590/1413-81232025306.03792025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1413-81232025306.03792025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study seeks to identify the concept of resilience and reflect on factor that made women's heath vulnerable and protected (at personal level and in health services) during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is an integrative review of the literature, carried out in the SciELO, BVS, PubMed and LILACS databases, using the descriptors resilience, women's health, gynecology, obstetrics, COVID-19 and pandemic, covering the years 2020 to 2022, in Portuguese and English. 43 articles were included and analyzed in 4 thematic areas: concept of resilience, impacts of the pandemic on health services, stressors and personal resilience factors, and impacts of the pandemic on women' lives. Highlights difficulties in adapting the health network to the crisis stand out, as well as losses in access to services and information, leading to physical and mental harm, especially for the most vulnerable population. Factors that promote resilience were physical activity, interpersonal support, routine, education, income and maintenance of some services. Resilience in healthcare is a new, complex and promising field, which should be encouraged, as it contributes to strategies for improving and adapting healthcare systems and people's lives, preventively, during and after crises.</p>","PeriodicalId":10195,"journal":{"name":"Ciencia & saude coletiva","volume":"30 6","pages":"e03792025"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144494969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ciencia & saude coletivaPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-03-18DOI: 10.1590/1413-81232025306.04542025
Maria Cecilia Bruzi, Rodrigo Arcuri, Hugo Cesar Bellas, Jaqueline Vianna, Luiza Dos Santos, Anna Sophia Moraes
{"title":"The impact of performance variability on access to healthcare: an analysis of Regional Referral Centers' Resilience.","authors":"Maria Cecilia Bruzi, Rodrigo Arcuri, Hugo Cesar Bellas, Jaqueline Vianna, Luiza Dos Santos, Anna Sophia Moraes","doi":"10.1590/1413-81232025306.04542025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1413-81232025306.04542025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study aims to identify and analyze performance variability in the referral prioritization process for ambulatory care at the regional level in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. Exploratory cross-section study with observation sessions and semi-structured interviews, conducted in three public Regional Referral Centers (CREG). After transcription of field notes and preliminary coding, the referral process was modeled and analyzed using the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) within the theoretical framework of Resilience Engineering. Forty-one functions were described, of which eight were critical for patient referrals. Completing the referral prioritization process depends on effectively managing variability in these eight critical functions. Among these eight functions, 13 potential instances of variability were identified, some of those being present in all three CREGs while others found in one or two CREGs. The results evidence the health system's vulnerability regarding the referral prioritization process. They show that emergent variability compels workers to devise compensation mechanisms to successfully mitigate issues that may otherwise compromise access to healthcare.</p>","PeriodicalId":10195,"journal":{"name":"Ciencia & saude coletiva","volume":"30 6","pages":"e04542025"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144494972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ciencia & saude coletivaPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-02-27DOI: 10.1590/1413-81232025306.21022024
Sonia Fleury, Jamilli Silva Santos, Ana Ester Maria Melo Moreira, Munyra Barreto
{"title":"The Political Dimension of Health Systems Resilience: Brazil's Health Sector Reform Movement and the Unified Health System.","authors":"Sonia Fleury, Jamilli Silva Santos, Ana Ester Maria Melo Moreira, Munyra Barreto","doi":"10.1590/1413-81232025306.21022024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1413-81232025306.21022024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The scientific production on health systems resilience reveals a major debate as to the concept, its dimensions and applications, as well as criticisms of, for example, the distance separating studies of the topic from those addressing Brazil's health reform sector movement, the Movimento da Reforma Sanitária Brasileira (MRSB). This article aims to close that gap and also to bring political analysis to bear on a study of health systems resilience. It takes a qualitative approach, first offering a brief review of the literature on resilience, exploring its dimensions as regards health systems and Brazil's national health system, the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), and then identifying the critical conjunctures in which the MRSB has operated, to form a case study of this movement's political action as a precondition for a resilient SUS. The results point to various moments at which the presence, organisation and collective action of the MRSB were crucial to increasing the SUS's resilience: the MRSB has been fundamental as a component in the construction and maintenance of the SUS, from its very conception, in resistance to attempts at dismantling the public system, through to its ability to learn and innovate.</p>","PeriodicalId":10195,"journal":{"name":"Ciencia & saude coletiva","volume":"30 6","pages":"e21022024"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144494973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ciencia & saude coletivaPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2024-12-14DOI: 10.1590/1413-81232025306.21872024
Nilson do Rosário Costa, Raphael Costa Pinto, Alessandro Jatobá
{"title":"[Fiscal austerity, COVID-19 and metropolises: a case study on the funding resilience of public health actions and services in Brazil].","authors":"Nilson do Rosário Costa, Raphael Costa Pinto, Alessandro Jatobá","doi":"10.1590/1413-81232025306.21872024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1413-81232025306.21872024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The article describes the pattern of resilience of municipal governments in funding public health actions and services (PHAS) in the 2000s and 2020s in the context of disseminating the fiscal austerity and health emergency agenda in Brazil. Funding resilience identifies the mechanisms for mobilizing resources to support the institutional capacity of health systems. The article analyzes the allocation of municipal resources to the PHAS of 17 metropolises (cities with more than 900 thousand inhabitants) from 2002 to 2021. Based on the values observed in the budget allocation of own revenues, the article calculates the Municipal Budget Resilience Index (IROM). It shows the support of municipal expenditure on PHAS during the two COVID-19 pandemic cycles (2020-2021). The budgetary allocation pact was crucial for sustaining funding in most metropolises, enabling a resilient response in critical years for the Unified Health System (UHS).</p>","PeriodicalId":10195,"journal":{"name":"Ciencia & saude coletiva","volume":"30 6","pages":"e21872024"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144494937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ciencia & saude coletivaPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2024-06-08DOI: 10.1590/1413-81232025306.04992023
Juziane Teixeira Guiça, Dayane Cristina Queiroz Correia, Charles Rodrigues Junior, Romulo Araújo Fernandes, Maria Carolina Castanho Saes Norberto, Glória de Lima Rodrigues, Jamile Sanches Codogno
{"title":"[Physical activity and costs with medicines in hypertensive attended in different primary care approaches].","authors":"Juziane Teixeira Guiça, Dayane Cristina Queiroz Correia, Charles Rodrigues Junior, Romulo Araújo Fernandes, Maria Carolina Castanho Saes Norberto, Glória de Lima Rodrigues, Jamile Sanches Codogno","doi":"10.1590/1413-81232025306.04992023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1413-81232025306.04992023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim is to compare the level of physical activity and medication expenditures of hypertensive patients treated in different types of primary health care in the city of Presidente Prudente. People of both sexes participated, aged ≥ 40 years, registered in three health different approaches: Primary Care, Primary Care+ e Primary Care+PE. Data on physical activity, illness and medication expenditures was obtained by telephone interview and consultation of the electronic medical record. The chi-square test, Kruskal-Wallis and linear regression were used. The statistical significance adopted was 5%. A total of 659 people were evaluated, with a mean age of 62 years. It was observed that between the modalities, the presence of diseases was higher in patients attended by the Primary Care+PE. Analyzing physical activity and medication expenses, a negative relationship can be observed in the Primary Care+ (r = -0.149; CI = -0.277 to -0.016) and Primary Care+PE (r = -0.210; CI = -0.334 to -0.079), after adjusting for gender, age, body mass index and sum of diseases, only the Primary Care+PE modality remained significant. The Primary Care+PE was the only modality to present lower expenses with medication for more physically active patients, even after adjusting for confounding variables.</p>","PeriodicalId":10195,"journal":{"name":"Ciencia & saude coletiva","volume":"30 6","pages":"e04992023"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144494939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ciencia & saude coletivaPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-02-26DOI: 10.1590/1413-81232025306.03302025
Arlindo Souza Amaral Neto, Nathália Miranda do Nascimento, Alessandra Barrias Loureiro, Mônica Ferreira da Silva, Claudia Araújo, Maria Del Pilar Anto Rubio, Sildenir Alves Ribeiro
{"title":"Modeling the COVID-19 vaccination process using the FRAM Method.","authors":"Arlindo Souza Amaral Neto, Nathália Miranda do Nascimento, Alessandra Barrias Loureiro, Mônica Ferreira da Silva, Claudia Araújo, Maria Del Pilar Anto Rubio, Sildenir Alves Ribeiro","doi":"10.1590/1413-81232025306.03302025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1413-81232025306.03302025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Vaccination is crucial in a primary care unit and relevant for society. This study aimed to map and analyze the COVID-19 vaccination process adopting Resilience Engineering concepts to identify possible sources of failure and recommend improvements. A case study was conducted in a Primary Health Care unit, and data were collected through semi-structured interviews in a cross-sectional study. The vaccination process was analyzed and modeled using the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM), which provided a greater understanding of the procedural flow and the identification of the system's primary functions and points of variability. The results pointed out the couplings between functions that can generate high variability, which engineered improvements in the system's resilience by proposing countermeasures for the situations identified as bottlenecks.</p>","PeriodicalId":10195,"journal":{"name":"Ciencia & saude coletiva","volume":"30 6","pages":"e03302025"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144494955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ciencia & saude coletivaPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2024-06-09DOI: 10.1590/1413-81232025306.08292023
Jaqueline Marcos Dos Santos, Marta Verdi
{"title":"Moral distress experienced by healthcare workers in COVID-19 triage centers, Blumenau-SC, 2021.","authors":"Jaqueline Marcos Dos Santos, Marta Verdi","doi":"10.1590/1413-81232025306.08292023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1413-81232025306.08292023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted new ethical problems that trigger moral distress in daily healthcare work that deserve to be addressed in addition to being a serious public health problem. The aim is to understand the experience of moral distress by healthcare workers when carrying out their work to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in triage centers in the microregion of Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil. This is a qualitative study carried out with 31 healthcare workers through virtual interviews during the pandemic. Content analysis was carried out with the help of ATLAS-ti software. Based on Wilkinson's framework, the analysis revealed that the moral distress of these workers was constituted by the dimensions of the experience and effect. In experience, the main threats to moral integrity were moral harassment and moral impediment, in addition to other reasons that lead to moral distress. As an effect of this process, feelings were experienced that brought physical and psychological consequences of moral anguish and ineffective coping strategies. The study made it possible to understand the process of experiencing moral distress, indicating to moral deliberation as a coping strategy.</p>","PeriodicalId":10195,"journal":{"name":"Ciencia & saude coletiva","volume":"30 6","pages":"e08292023"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144494956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ciencia & saude coletivaPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2024-06-21DOI: 10.1590/1413-81232025306.00292024
Keila Priscila Dos Santos Avelar, Maria Fernanda Laus
{"title":"Search for information on food and nutrition and its intersections with eating behavior and body image.","authors":"Keila Priscila Dos Santos Avelar, Maria Fernanda Laus","doi":"10.1590/1413-81232025306.00292024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1413-81232025306.00292024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This quantitative study associated the search for information about food and nutrition with body image and eating behavior in men and women. An online survey was conducted from December 2021 to March 2022, with 518 adults participating via social media and email invites. The survey included demographic questions, information-seeking behavior, beauty ideals, media influence, body satisfaction, investment in appearance, and disordered eating. Two-way ANOVAs and Path analysis were used. Most participants were women, white, heterosexual, and single, with an average age of 31 years and body mass index (BMI) of 25.9 kg/m². Most participants looked up information about food and nutrition (81.7%; n = 423) and used Google® as their primary source (45.2%; n = 191). Path analysis revealed that searching for information is positively associated with satisfaction with appearance, BMI, media pressure, and time spent on social networks. Conversely, there is a negative relationship between satisfaction with appearance and seeking information and between investment in appearance and searching for such information.</p>","PeriodicalId":10195,"journal":{"name":"Ciencia & saude coletiva","volume":"30 6","pages":"e00292024"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144494970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}