Health services and the treatment of immigrants: data on service use, interpreting services and immigrant staff members in services across Europe.

Autores: Nilsson C, Ceita J, Alam MZ, J. Couto, Nobre PA, Nina J, J. de la Fuente, Nilsson C, Ndugulile F, Jaenson T, Nina J, Itoe MA, Nebreda P, Nery SV, Jackson Y, Jackson Y, Jacob JM
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Health+services+and+the+treatment+of+immigrants%3A+data+on+service+use%2C+interpreting+services+and+immigrant+staff+members+in+services+across+Europe

BACKGROUND:
The number of immigrants using health services has increased across Europe. For assessing and improving the quality of care provided for immigrants, information is required on how many immigrants use services, what interpreting services are provided and whether staff members are from immigrant groups.
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Meta-evaluation of health management: challenges for “new public health”.

Autores: Alho A, Kluge U
Link: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-81232012000400004

O texto de Tanaka me seduziu pelo seu eco a algumas reflexões que tenho feito ao longo dos últimos cinco anos, iniciadas na 1ª oficina para construção do GT da Abrasco (“Da avaliação em saúde à saúde da avaliação”), e agora revisitadas ao escrever um capítulo de livro sobre “a nova saúde pública”, focalizando a avaliação de desempenho como contribuição ao Plano Nacional de Saúde em Portugal.
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Adequacy of prenatal care in the National Health System in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Autores: Neves I, Neves E, Neves I
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Adequacy+of+prenatal+care+in+the+National+Health+System+in+the+city+of+Rio+de+Janeiro%2C+Brazil.

The persistence of negative perinatal outcomes in Rio de Janeiro suggests problems in the quality of prenatal care. The most recent study in the city showed that only 38% of prenatal care was adequate.
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Purchasing power of civil servant health workers in Mozambique.

Autores: Pratlong F, Prates JA, Alho A, Almeida LM
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Purchasing+power+of+civil+servant+health+workers+in+Mozambique

BACKGROUND:
Health workers’ purchasing power is an important consideration in the development of strategies for health workforce development. This work explores the purchasing power variation of Mozambican public sector health workers, between 1999 and 2007. In general, the calculated purchasing power increased for most careers under study, and the highest percentage increase was observed for the lowest remuneration careers, contributing in this way for a relative reduction in the difference between the higher and the lower salaries.
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Poor quality of Hospital Information Systems audit trails.

Although IT governance practices (like ITIL, which recommends on the use of Audit Trails (AT) for proper service level management) are being introduced in many Hospitals to cope with increasing levels of information quality and safety requirements, the standard maturity levels of hospital IT departments is still not enough to reach the level of frequent use of AT.
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Health services and the treatment of immigrants: data on service use, interpreting services and immigrant staff members in services across Europe.

Meta-evaluation of health management: challenges for “new public health”.

Adequacy of prenatal care in the National Health System in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Purchasing power of civil servant health workers in Mozambique.

Poor quality of Hospital Information Systems audit trails.

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