Vol. 44 No. 125 abr-jun (2020): Saúde em Debate

The editorial of Saúde em Debate nº 125, signed by Ana Maria Costa, Maria Lucia Frizon Rizzotto, and Lenaura de Vasconcelos Costa Lobato, opens the journal with an analysis of COVID-19 in Brazil: “The pandemic found the nation with a militarized, ultra-right government, bewildered and submerged in a political crisis, aggravated by a low performance of the economy with growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), in 2019, of only 1.1% and adding up to approximately 13 million unemployed citizens. This combination of factors and crises has deepened political instability and has proved to be tragic from all points of view, making the country seem like a ship with no direction, ready to sink”.

The periodic presents the following themes: National Program for the Improvement of Access and Quality (PMAQ-AB) in a municipality in Bahia; political dimension of nurses in the implementation of the PMAQ-AB; training process with popular educators from EdPopSUS; residents of an urban occupation about the ‘empowerment’ in health; oncological palliative care; mortality from cervical cancer in Brazil; Family Health Team and care for drug users; Diabetes Mellitus in the More Doctors Program in a city in the metropolitan region of Recife; care for the elderly population in Emergency Care Units in the city of Rio de Janeiro; Pharmaceutical Assistance in Primary Care: The Pharmaceutical Care Gap; Health Surveillance Management Performance; population in situations of social vulnerability accompanied in Belford Roxo (RJ); user satisfaction with oral health care in Paraíba; Dengue and its relationship with socio-environmental factors in the state of Paraíba; Matrix Support in the qualification of Primary Health Care for people with chronic diseases; Primary Care in riverside health; university participation in defense of the Unified Health System; Primary Care and Intermediate Care; human editing using the Crispr-cas9 technique: scientific enthusiasm and ethical concerns; privatization of the Chilean health system; choice of delivery method and women’s autonomy in Brazil; assistance to women in situations of violence; Review of the book ‘Qualitative Data Analysis’ by Graham Gibbs.