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11/30/2018 - During the 4th Regular Meeting of the Technical Health Schools Network of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (RETS-CPLP), held on November 12 and 13 in Rio de Janeiro, representatives of the countries of the CPLP presented the scenario of Primary Care (PHC) in their health systems. In addition, RETS-CPLP members approved the new Network 2019-2022 work plan and confirmed EPSJV/Fiocruz as their coordinating institution. -
11/28/2018 - To consolidate the International Network of Health Technicians Education (RETS) and its mission to support the training and qualification of technical workers in health, in international cooperation processes in the Americas and in the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP). This was the main objective of the 4th General Meeting of RETS, held from November 12 to 14 in Rio de Janeiro, together with the 4th RETS-CPLP Ordinary Meeting in Rio de Janeiro. For three days, about 40 institutional representatives evaluated the work done over the years and, among other things, drafted the network work plan for the period 2019-2022. The group also defined and agreed with a communication plan for RETS, as well as relegated EPSJV/Fiocruz as the executive secretariat of the Network. On the first day of the event, after the opening ceremony, the seminar '40 years of Alma-Ata and the role of health technical workers in the implementation of universal health systems' was held, with the presence of Paulo Buss, former president and current coordinator of the Center for International Relations in Health (CRIS) of Fiocruz, and Isabel Duré, Secretary of Health of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Argentina. The seminar was opened to the public and broadcasted live over the Internet. At the end of the meeting, members of RETS issued the Declaration of Rio de Janeiro, in which they asked local, regional and global authorities to pay more attention to the training and work of health technicians. -
11/28/2018 - The 40 years of Alma-Ata and the role of health technicians in the implementation of universal health systems was the theme of the opening seminar of the 4th Meeting of the International Network of Health Technicians Education (RETS), held from 12 to 14 November, in Rio de Janeiro, together with the 4th Ordinary Meeting of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (RETS-CPLP) sub-network. The debate was mediated by professor at the Polytechnic School of Health Joaquim Venâncio (EPSJV/Fiocruz) Márcia Valéria Morosini and it has counted on Paulo Buss, Fiocruz ex-president and current coordinator of Fiocruz's Center for International Relations (Cris), and the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Argentina advisor, Isabel Duré. "It's very difficult to talk about Astana and the current moment without reviewing what Alma-Ata was like. One of the main reversals was that the Astana Declaration assumes that Alma-Ata lives by the power of its document. It was a difficult achievement for Brazil, for the other South American countries that were together there and also for African countries that know the importance of primary care in institutional life, in the life of the people, in the life of the health system", began Buss , proposing to make a historical rescue: "At the heart of Alma Ata's approach there are ideas such as universal accessibility, equity, integration of prevention and treatment, government responsibility for population health and community participation." -
10/31/2018 - The 4th General Meeting of the International Network of Health Technicians Education (RETS) will be held from November 12 to 14 in Rio de Janeiro, together with the 4th Regular Meeting of the Network of Technical Health Schools of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (RETS-CPLP). The first part of the program - the seminar '40 years of Alma-Ata and the role of the health technicians in the realization of universal health systems' - will be open to the general public and broadcast live on the Internet. In the seminar, Paulo Buss, the former president and current coordinator of Fiocruz's International Relations Center (CRIS), will present the theme 'From Alma-Ata's declaration to Astana's declaration: universal right or universal health coverage?'. Isabel Duré, from the Department of Health, Ministry of Health and Social Development of Argentina, will discuss 'Unfinished agenda of training and work of health technicians after 40 years of the Alma-Ata Declaration'. The roundtable, which will be moderated by the professor and researcher Márcia Valéria Cardoso Morosini, from the Polytechnic School of Health Joaquim Venâncio (EPSJV/Fiocruz), will take place on November 12 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (Brasilia time)) in the EPSJV Auditorium. -
10/30/2018 - With almost 20 thousand premature births per year and an estimated neonatal mortality rate of 28 deaths per thousand births, Mozambique has taken an important step towards neonatal health. Last Friday (10/26), the first Breast Milk Bank (BMB) opened with a great party in the country, at Central Hospital Maputo. This is the second facility in Africa following the Brazilian model: Cape Verde has one BMB operating since 2011, and the second facility is under implementation process. Angola will be the next country to have a BMB in Luanda. -
10/30/2018 - The 10th edition of the Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information (CRICS10) and the 7th edition of the Virtual Health Library Coordination Meeting (VHL7) will be held in São Paulo from 4 to 6 December 2018. It is expected the presence of approximately 500 participants from institutions that network with BIREME / PAHO / WHO in the development of projects, products and services that contribute to the access to scientific and technical health information in Latin American and Caribbean countries (AL & C), in addition to other regions. The theme of the congress is "Toward the reach of Agenda 2030: contributions of evidence and knowledge" and has as main thematic axes: (1) Innovation and Digital Health; (2) Information management; (3) Knowledge management; (4) Evidence-informed policies, strategies and decisions; (5) Intersectoriality; (6) Research and scientific communication; and (7) Open Science. -
10/30/2018 - In 1978, a pivotal conference was held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, bringing together health experts and world leaders to commit to health for all. Endorsed at that conference, the Declaration of Alma-Ata formed the foundation for the last 40 years of global primary health care efforts. The Global Conference on Primary Health Care in Astana, Kazakhstan in October endorsed a new declaration emphasizing the critical role of primary health care around the world. The declaration will refocus efforts on primary health care to ensure that everyone everywhere is able to enjoy the highest possible attainable standard of health. -
10/11/2018 - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) will provide grants for the implementation of initiatives to improve Information Systems for Health (IS4H) in the Americas. These initiatives should focus on improving existing health programs, strategies or policies. The call for proposals will remain open until 15 November 2018,12:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time). The application form can be downloaded at www.paho.org/ish. Instructions on how to complete the form are also available via that link. Once the application form has been completed, it should be saved as a PDF file and submitted via the website. -
10/11/2018 - Over the last 50 years, human activities – particularly the burning of fossil fuels – have released sufficient quantities of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to trap additional heat in the lower atmosphere and affect the global climate.In the last 130 years, the world has warmed by approximately 0.85oC. Each of the last 3 decades has been successively warmer than any preceding decade since 1850. Sea levels are rising, glaciers are melting and precipitation patterns are changing. Extreme weather events are becoming more intense and frequent. -
10/02/2018 - “Great progress” has been made in tackling tobacco consumption and saving lives but more needs to be done to challenge the industry’s attempts to “bypass” international regulations, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday (10/01). At an international meeting on tobacco control in Geneva, the WHO reported that that nearly two-thirds of the 181 States parties to the WHO Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) have developed strategies “to prevent tobacco industry interference with tobacco control policies”.