Healthcare Networks in Metropolitan Areas - The Case of the Health System in Brazil

The health care system in Brazil given its size and geographic scope is an example of the complexity and often fragmentation in health policy implementation. In the middle of this health systems' fragmentation, the concept of Healthcare Networks emerges and consolidates. The notion of healthcare networks proposes that the health system must be organized through coordinated points to provide continuous and integrated care, based on cooperation between managers, providers, and users. In Brazil in 2010, the Ministry of Health enacted an ordinance defining the healthcare network as a management model to be pursued by the national health policy in order to address most of the difficulties of fragmentation. The Brazilian health policy is decentralized and is the responsibility of municipalities to implement it through federal funds. However, a defining feature of healthcare networks is their regional character, as it becomes necessary to go beyond the municipal boundaries for resource optimization. This scenario of inter-regional relations gains greater density when the territory is configured in an urban superstructure, as it is in the case of metropolitan regions. In this sense, a deeper analysis of the governance forms of Healthcare Networks in a metropolitan scale becomes very fruitful. Thus, this paper proposes to discuss the cases of Healthcare Networks in Brazilian metropolitan regions, characterizing its implementation process as well as identifying management problems in the various cases. This study, which is part of a post-doctoral research, is grounded on data provided by agencies responsible for health management in the federal and state levels, as well as the current literature on healthcare networks. Results include the analysis of metropolitan networks implemented within their different stages, challenges and advances.

The University Archaeological Collections from their Inception until Today. The University of Graz as a Case Study for teaching

An Introduction to Videogame Genre Theory. Understanding Videogame Genre Framework

Paraphrasing Eco, the "playing contract" should allow players to instantly recognize a genre. Videogames use resources from the fertile field of popular culture, exploiting models, pre-worked materials, well-known heroes, stereotypes, and myths. Since genres have multiple meanings, functions, production models and audience expectations that evolve through time, it is important to understand if a videogame genre framework exists or if there are just labels or marketing tools used by the game producers. Finding out if there is a blueprint for videogame genres requires the understanding of specific elements and their arrangement. Being aware that it is not possible to present an exhaustive genre categorization but only a general structure of the videogame genres, this paper uses the genres’ framework identified by Aaretsh, Smedstad and Sunnanå (2003) and integrates interviews with professionals. It also reviews the general and the specific genre literature and analyses the role and the characteristics of several elements that articulate the videogame genres.

Applying Problem based learning in the Sports Science Curriculum

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The Inter-relationships between Language, Music and Movement Pattern Learning

The aim of this paper is to discuss the interrelationships between the learning of a language, the learning of playing a musical instrument and the learning of movement patterns in order to perform physical exercise. Each area of learning is dealt with separately and in a manner that explains in depth the process of learning. An historical account of the importance of language, music and physical exercise is presented with key references to texts from the ancient world and from different cultural backgrounds including the ancient Greeks and early Islamic texts.

Você tem fome de quê?: O jornalismo gastronômico na cultura de consumo contemporânea brasileira

This paper examines how gastronomic journalism is related to Brazilian contemporary consumer culture. Therefore, we resort to concepts such as imaginative hedonism (Campbell); taste, distinction and lifestyle (Bourdieu); and renovation of desire by fashion (Lipovetsky). The corpus includes the section Food of Folha de S. Paulo newspaper, a pioneer as an independent section about this subject published between 1988 and 1992 and reissued in 2011. The cultural phenomenon of gastronomy is observed in the context of the growing of the middle class in the country, when more people start eating out and thinking more about what they eat, looking for information on the subject to guide their choices.

AMÉRICA e a paisagem como horizonte na televisão

O artigo analisa a série América (direção de João Moreira Salles) feita para a extinta Rede Manchete em 1989. Muitas são as questões que poderiam ser exploradas diante desse documentário, como: de que modo suas imagens constróem os imaginários nacionais? Tais imagens se apresentam como “retratos do real” ou eventualmente explicitam visões subjetivas? O artigo porém investiga a dinâmica da noção de paisagem em América a partir das próprias questões que as imagens convocam naquele momento. Trata-se de um recém descoberto repertório de práticas (o vídeo) e olhares em devir no qual o território americano ressurge como objeto de aspiração e experiência de privação, ou seja, paisagem.

Memória de atos regulatórios na comunicação na UFRGS: uma proposta analítica

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Liberdade de expressão comercial como estratégia corporativa do setor publicitário brasileiro

O objetivo deste artigo é investigar as origens do conceito “liberdade de expressão comercial” e analisar como ele passou a ser adotado pelo setor publicitário brasileiro a partir dos anos 90. A pesquisa foi realizada a partir da coleta de documentos e entrevistas que auxiliaram na reconstrução do histórico das entidades do setor, bem como das disputas em torno da regulamentação da publicidade, e permitiu a percepção das posições discursivas contrárias às iniciativas regulatórias que visavam a um maior controle da publicidade no país. A análise constatou que o atual discurso em defesa da liberdade de expressão comercial é uma síntese fundamentada em três matrizes: defesa das liberdades, defesa da autorregulamentação e defesa da atividade publicitária.

Você tem fome de quê?: O jornalismo gastronômico na cultura de consumo contemporânea brasileira

Este artigo analisa como o jornalismo gastronômico se insere na cultura de consumo contemporânea brasileira. Para tanto, recorremos a conceitos como hedonismo imaginativo, de Campbell; gosto, distinção e estilo de vida, de Bourdieu; e renovação do desejo pela moda, de Lipovetsky. O corpus utilizado é o caderno Comida, da Folha de S.Paulo, pioneiro como suplemento independente sobre o assunto entre 1988 e 1992 e relançado em 2011. O fenômeno cultural da gastronomia é observado no contexto do crescimento da classe média no país, quando mais pessoas passam a se alimentar fora de casa e a pensar mais sobre o que comem, buscando informações sobre o assunto para orientar suas escolhas.