Payment for performance in the Family Health Programme: lessons from the UK Quality and Outcomes Framework Pagamento para desempenho no Programa Saúde da Família: lições do Quality and Outcomes Framework da Inglaterra

Assistência Farmacêutica no Programa Saúde da Família: encontros e desencontros do processo de organização Pharmaceutical Assistance in the Family Healthcare Program: points of affinity and discord in the organization process

Evaluation of the performance of actions and outcomes in primary health care

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study has been to evaluate the performance of the primary care of Brazilian municipalities in relation to health actions and outcomes. METHODS This is an evaluative, cross-sectional research, with a quantitative approach, aimed at the identification of the efficiency frontier of the primary care in health actions and outcomes in Brazilian municipalities. Second...

Avaliação da descentralização da vigilância epidemiológica para a Equipe de Saúde da Família Evaluation of the decentralization of epidemiologic surveillance to the Team of the Family Health Program

Public-private settlement and hospital mortality per sources of payment

OBJECTIVE To analyze if the adjusted hospital mortality varies according to source of payment of hospital admissions, legal nature, and financing settlement of hospitals. METHODS Cros-ssectional study with information source in administrative databases. Specific hospital admission reasons were selected considering the volume of hospital admissions and the list of quality indicators proposed b...

Desempenho De Serviços De Saúde No Tratamento Diretamente Observado No Domicílio Para Controle Da Tuberculose Desempeño De Los Servicios De Salud Para El Control De La Tuberculosis a Través Del Tratamiento Domiciliar Directamente Observado

Received: 06/25/2007 Approved: 12/18/2007 Portugu se / English: www.scielo.br/reeusp RESUMO Este é um estudo exploratório de natureza quantitativa e qualitativa, que avalia o desempenho dos serviços de saúde na execução do DOT no domicílio em um município de grande porte. Para a análise quantitativa foram construídos indicadores que avaliaram a otimização dos recursos materiais/ humanos e a efe...