The Rio Declaration highlights the importance of clinical simulation and proposes initiatives to incorporate simulation in the courses of all institutions that train health technicians, promoting a humanized and intercultural approach (In Spanish).
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10/01/2015 - The RETS Magazine reaffirms its desire to disseminate experience reports. Therefore, we are accepting articles in the area of technical workers´ education, to be published this year. The idea is to promote the greatest possible number of experience reports, in all areas and levels of education, from those targeting auxiliary workers and health care agents to those related to mid-level technicians and/or higher level technologists. -
07/09/2015 - In May 2014, the 67th World Health Assembly asked the Director-General to develop and submit a new global strategy on human resources for health to be considered by the 69th World Health Assembly in May 2016. This strategy represents a critical component of the WHO strategic vision towards universal health coverage (UHC) in the framework of the post 2015 health development agenda. The Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030 is now open for public consultation until 31 August 2015. The draft will also be discussed at various global health events as well as a number of WHO regional technical consultations. This global dialogue will inform the continuing improvement of the draft and a final version to be submitted to the WHO Executive Board in January 2016. -
06/15/2015 - The May issue of the ISAGS report is a special on the participation of UNASUR in the 68th World Health Assembly (WHA). The newspaper brings a summary of comments of the People's Health Movement (PHM) about the proposals of WHO, that are of interest the block. The publication also treats the positioning of General Secretary of UNASUR, Ernesto Samper, respect to the intervention of UNASUR in the WHA and an interview with Fernando Rosales, representative of the Permanent Mission of Bolivia in Geneva, about the importance of the presence of the block in international forums of Global Health. -
05/27/2015 - ISAGS’ technical advisor on social determinants of health and regulation, Alessandra Bortoni Ninis, participated in the Latin American and Caribbean Forum on Territorial Economic Development, which took place in Quito, Ecuador, on May 18 and 19. The event is a stage in preparation to the 3rd World Forum on Local Economic Development that will be held in Turin, Italy, in October 2015. -
05/26/2015 - The World Health Assembly closed today (26/05/2015), with Director-General Dr Margaret Chan noting that it had passed several “landmark resolutions and decisions”. Three new resolutions were passed today: one on air pollution, one on epilepsy and one laying out the next steps in finalizing a framework of engagement with non-State actors. Delegates at the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution to address the health impacts of air pollution – the world’s largest single environmental health risk. Every year 4.3 million deaths occur from exposure to indoor air pollution and 3.7 million deaths are attributable to outdoor air pollution. This was the first time the Health Assembly had debated the topic. -
05/21/2015 - “The goal today is to strengthen the Structural Networks and thus the health systems of partner countries to reinforce the role of workers in the construction of universal systems geared for primary care. We also seek to bring some of the experience of the Brazilian government and this institution in education and management in health.” Those were the words of Joaquim Venâncio Health Polytechnic School (EPSJV/Fiocruz) Director Paulo César de Castro Ribeiro during the opening of the 1st Virtual Seminar of the RETS on the “Intercultural perspective in the Education of Health Technicians”, held on May 20 at the EPSJV, current Executive Secretariat of the Network. The Debate Forum of this Seminar is now open. -
05/19/2015 - On May 20, at 9:30 am (Eastern Time), The International Network of Health Technicians Education (RETS) is holding the 1st Network’s Webinar on “The intercultural perspective in Health Technical Training”. The event presented by teacher-researcher Ana Lucia Pontes* will take place in the Auditorium Joaquim Alberto Cardoso de Melo, the Joaquim Venâncio Health Polytechnic School (EPSJV/Fiocruz), and will be broadcasted online in Spanish and Portuguese. The targeted audience encompasses researchers, students and professionals in the field of health sciences. -
05/18/2015 - Since the Alma-Ata International Conference*, there have been discussions about the conception and implementation of Primary Health Care (PHC) systems in South America. The various models of comprehensive health care that have been adopted over the years in the continent are the highlight of the book Primary Health Care in South America, released by ISAGS/UNASUR last Sunday (17) during the meeting of the South American Health Council in preparation for the World Health Assembly (WHA), in Geneva. The publication is part of ISAGS’s Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and it resulted from an extensive work of mapping, articulation and consolidation of PHC experiences in the region. The study comprises technical aspects - such as management and health care methodology, workforce and financing -, as well as intercultural and intersectoral questions existing in the countries. -
05/15/2015 - 2015 is the final year for the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – goals set by governments in 2000 to guide global efforts to end poverty. This year’s "World Health Statistics" – published today by WHO – assesses progress towards the health-related goals in each of the 194 countries for which data are available. The results are mixed. By the end of this year if current trends continue, the world will have met global targets for turning around the epidemics of HIV, malaria and tuberculosis and increasing access to safe drinking water. It will also have made substantial progress in reducing child undernutrition, maternal and child deaths, and increasing access to basic sanitation. -
04/28/2015 - Current Executive Secretariat of the RETS, the Joaquim Venâncio Health Polytechnic School (EPSJV/Fiocruz) announces the onset of works to carry out an international multicenter study to identify and analyze the quantitative and qualitative supply of health technical workers training in different countries. Invitations are being sent to the Network’s institutions, but other educational and research institutions may also be eligible to join, provided they meet the established requirements and submit, no later to than May 15, 2015, the “Interest in participating in the Multicenter Study form” duly completed.
