Paulo Henrique Nico Monteiro

Metrópole e região: dilemas da pactuação da saúde. O caso da Região Metropolitana da Baixada Santista, São Paulo, Brasil

This paper focuses on the relationship between metropolitan and regional health planning based on the processes of regionalization and the Pact for Health in the Baixada Santista Metropolitan Area, São Paulo State, Brazil. The method used was a case study in two stages, namely during initial implementation of the Pact for Health (2007) and the Regional Administration Committees (CGR) and in 2010. Municipal and regional health systems managers and the director of the Metropolitan Agency were interviewed, and records were analyzed from ten years of meetings of the Regional Inter-Administration Committee and the Regional Development Council. Four issues emerged: financing and infrastructure; health services utilization; inefficiency of the Regional Health Administrations instruments and decision-making levels; and the relationship between different levels in the Administration. Metropolitan health management remained as an underlying issue, appearing only incidentally or tangentially to regional management. Despite some limitations, the CGR has been legitimized as a space for regional health management.

A saúde na escola: análise dos documentos de referência nos quarenta anos de obrigatoriedade dos programas de saúde, 1971-2011

Health is a traditional subject in Brazilian school curriculums, and is evident in teaching materials since the end of the nineteenth century. Taking as its starting point the establishment of compulsory development of health programs in 1971, this article aims to examine certain official documents which sought to set out guidelines for health education in schools, as regards the actual conception of health, the objectives to be achieved, and the role of health studies in the general education of pupils. The analysis highlights an important lack of reference points for regulating health education in schools, and points out ideas which have remained unaltered, despite the social changes and theoretical advances that have occurred during the period.Health is a traditional subject in Brazilian school curriculums, and is evident in teaching materials since the end of the nineteenth century. Taking as its starting point the establishment of compulsory development of health programs in 1971, this article aims to examine certain official documents which sought to set out guidelines for health education in schools, as regards the actual conception of health, the objectives to be achieved, and the role of health studies in the general education of pupils. The analysis highlights an important lack of reference points for regulating health education in schools, and points out ideas which have remained unaltered, despite the social changes and theoretical advances that have occurred during the period.

Hábitos, atitudes e ameaças: a saúde nos livros didáticos brasileiros

This paper analyses how the factors influencing the health-sickness process are presented in early elementary school science learning books in Brazil and what their health-related main pedagogical objectives are. We have analysed the collections approved by the Programa Nacional do Livro Didatico [Learning Book National Program] in 2010 for the first school years of elementary school (44 volumes). Such books tend to approach the theme from the point of view of the individual and their habits, in an out-of-context manner and always in face of a given threat. We suggest that those materials incorporate the conceptual advancements in the health field, especially the ones pertaining to the collective dimension and the social determinants, so as to make classroom discussions more relevant.This paper analyses how the factors influencing the health-sickness process are presented in early elementary school science learning books in Brazil and what their health-related main pedagogical objectives are. We have analysed the collections approved by the Programa Nacional do Livro Didático [Learning Book National Program] in 2010 for the first school years of elementary school (44 volumes). Such books tend to approach the theme from the point of view of the individual and their habits, in an out-of-context manner and always in face of a given threat. We suggest that those materials incorporate the conceptual advancements in the health field, especially the ones pertaining to the collective dimension and the social determinants, so as to make classroom discussions more relevant. LEARNING BOOK • HEALTH • HEALTH EDUCATION • ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HÁBITOS, ACTITUDES Y AMENAZAS: LA SALUD EN LOS LIBROS DIDÁCTICOS BRASILEÑOS

Habits, attitudes and threats: health in brazilian learning books

This paper analyses how the factors influencing the health-sickness process are presented in early elementary school science learning books in Brazil and what their health-related main pedagogical objectives are. We have analysed the collections approved by the Programa Nacional do Livro Didatico [Learning Book National Program] in 2010 for the first school years of elementary school (44 volumes). Such books tend to approach the theme from the point of view of the individual and their habits, in an out-of-context manner and always in face of a given threat. We suggest that those materials incorporate the conceptual advancements in the health field, especially the ones pertaining to the collective dimension and the social determinants, so as to make classroom discussions more relevant.This paper analyses how the factors influencing the health-sickness process are presented in early elementary school science learning books in Brazil and what their health-related main pedagogical objectives are. We have analysed the collections approved by the Programa Nacional do Livro Didático [Learning Book National Program] in 2010 for the first school years of elementary school (44 volumes). Such books tend to approach the theme from the point of view of the individual and their habits, in an out-of-context manner and always in face of a given threat. We suggest that those materials incorporate the conceptual advancements in the health field, especially the ones pertaining to the collective dimension and the social determinants, so as to make classroom discussions more relevant. LEARNING BOOK • HEALTH • HEALTH EDUCATION • ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HÁBITOS, ACTITUDES Y AMENAZAS: LA SALUD EN LOS LIBROS DIDÁCTICOS BRASILEÑOS

Hábitos, actitudes y amenazas: la salud en los libros didácticos brasileños

This paper analyses how the factors influencing the health-sickness process are presented in early elementary school science learning books in Brazil and what their health-related main pedagogical objectives are. We have analysed the collections approved by the Programa Nacional do Livro Didatico [Learning Book National Program] in 2010 for the first school years of elementary school (44 volumes). Such books tend to approach the theme from the point of view of the individual and their habits, in an out-of-context manner and always in face of a given threat. We suggest that those materials incorporate the conceptual advancements in the health field, especially the ones pertaining to the collective dimension and the social determinants, so as to make classroom discussions more relevant.This paper analyses how the factors influencing the health-sickness process are presented in early elementary school science learning books in Brazil and what their health-related main pedagogical objectives are. We have analysed the collections approved by the Programa Nacional do Livro Didático [Learning Book National Program] in 2010 for the first school years of elementary school (44 volumes). Such books tend to approach the theme from the point of view of the individual and their habits, in an out-of-context manner and always in face of a given threat. We suggest that those materials incorporate the conceptual advancements in the health field, especially the ones pertaining to the collective dimension and the social determinants, so as to make classroom discussions more relevant. LEARNING BOOK • HEALTH • HEALTH EDUCATION • ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HÁBITOS, ACTITUDES Y AMENAZAS: LA SALUD EN LOS LIBROS DIDÁCTICOS BRASILEÑOS