OBJETIVO: Analisar os determinantes individuais e contextuais do uso de serviços de saúde na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo. MÉTODOS: Foram utilizados os dados do estudo São Paulo Megacity, a versão brasileira da pesquisa ...

This paper presents different aspects related to the use of external evaluation of health services in Brazil, especially hospital accreditation. It´s based upon the author´s experience in implementing quality models in ...

OBJECTIVE: To analyze lifestyle risk factors related to direct healthcare costs and the indirect costs due to sick leave among workers of an airline company in Brazil. METHODS: In this longitudinal 12-month study of 2,201 ...

Background: Despite an increasing body of knowledge concerning gender and lifestyle factors as determinants of sickness absence in well-developed countries, the relationship between these variables has not been elucidated ...

Neste trabalho, procurou-se analisar as relações entre variáveis do contexto organizacional e de gestão de pessoas e as inovações. Os principais objetivos foram analisar e comparar os aspectos organizacionais e de gestão ...

Globally, the health sector presents problems related to cost, quality and access. Porter and Teisberg (2004, 2006) proposed a specific management model for strategic administration in this sector - Value-Based 496 Germany ...

Analysis of the current political and economical context in the U.S.A., which involves access to and utilization of health services by immigrants, concerns more than 20 million foreign individuals who live in the country ...