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01/25/2019 - The World Health Organization, WHO, with the Pan American Health Organization, Opas, warns that the gap in the treatment of epilepsy in the region of the Americas and the Caribbean is over 50%. The objective of the study on one of the most common neurological disorders in the world is precisely to help these countries in the diagnosis and health care of the population. For this reason, Opas launched the document "The Management of Epilepsy in the Public Health Sector 2018". -
01/23/2019 - The ILO Global Commission on the Future of Work calls for fundamental changes in the way we work in the new wave of globalization, rapid technological development, demographic transition and climate change, according to its report Work for a Brighter Future published on January 22. The report examines how to achieve a better future of work for all at a time of unprecedented change and exceptional challenges in the world of work. -
01/22/2019 - The Reports in Public Health opens 2019 with numerous challenges for health policy and SUS. The January edition contains, in its Doctors in Primary Health Care (PHC) space, four articles that reflect on the experience and dilemmas of the profession of doctors in the health systems of Portugal, Brazil, Canada and Chile. In the editorial of this fascicle, the CSP publishers, Luciana Dias de Lima, Marilia Sá Carvalho and Cláudia Medina Coeli, emphasize that "physicians and their representative organizations occupy a central place in the construction trajectories of public health systems. At the international level, comparative studies emphasize the importance of the relations between the state and medical organizations for different health policy orientations and paths in specific institutional contexts". -
01/16/2019 - The world is facing multiple health challenges. These range from outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles and diphtheria, increasing reports of drug-resistant pathogens, growing rates of obesity and physical inactivity to the health impacts of environmental pollution and climate change and multiple humanitarian crises. To address these and other threats, 2019 sees the start of the World Health Organization’s new 5-year strategic plan – the 13th General Programme of Work. This plan focuses on a triple billion target: ensuring 1 billion more people benefit from access to universal health coverage, 1 billion more people are protected from health emergencies and 1 billion more people enjoy better health and well-being. Reaching this goal will require addressing the threats to health from a variety of angles. -
01/08/2019 - Professionals in public health, international relations and related fields are invited to apply to the 2019 session of the Pan American Health Organization’s (PAHO) Leaders in International Health program. Applications must be received by Feb. 15. -
12/19/2018 - The Brazil Africa Institute (IBRAF) and the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) signed, in a ceremony at CPLP’s headquarters in Lisbon, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the creation of partnerships and the development of projects. The act was attended by the board of the CPLP and by the Ambassador of the Brazilian Mission to the entity, Gonçalo Mourão. -
12/13/2018 - Cooperation project between Fiocruz and Brazil-Africa Institute demands course of Maintenance of Equipment of Pathology Laboratory to the Polytechnic School -
12/12/2018 - Ministers of Health from MERCOSUR and Associated States have signed a declaration to place health at the front and center of national climate change adaptation plans. This aims to ensure that health systems become climate resilient, and that health prevention and promotion are fully integrated with climate services, as per recommendations from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). -
12/07/2018 - Meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement could save about a million lives a year worldwide by 2050 through reductions in air pollution alone. The latest estimates from leading experts also indicate that the value of health gains from climate action would be approximately double the cost of mitigation policies at global level, and the benefit-to-cost ratio is even higher in countries such as China and India. -
11/30/2018 - In the 20 countries that make up the International Network of Health Technicians Education (RETS), whose executive secretariat is headquartered at the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health (EPSJV/Fiocruz), there are major differences in relation to the characteristics of the institutions responsible for training of health technicians, as well as the modalities and degrees of education offered for these professionals. These multiple training and work experiences, with emphasis on primary health care (PHC), were highlights of the 4th RETS General Meeting, held on November 12th to 14th, in Rio de Janeiro, concomitantly with the 4th Ordinary Meeting of the Technical Health Schools Network of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (RETS-CPLP). RETS ' mission is to promote the articulation between institutions and organizations involved in the training and qualification of technical personnel in the health field in countries of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Portugal.