Vol. 49 No. 146 jul-set (2025): Saúde em Debate

The editorial in this edition of ‘Saúde em Debate’ discusses the More Specialists Program, which “presents incremental strategic alternatives to address the problems of healthcare gaps, inequities, and a lack of specialized assistance. However, its objectives must be short-, medium-, and long-term, which requires defining structural strategies for expanding the public sector and progressively weaning it from dependence on the private sector, reducing its relative size”.

The manuscripts present themes such as: Nursing workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil; Household practices for storing and disposing of medications; The remuneration logic of Specialized Outpatient Care; Community Health Workers and the use of digital health; Monitoring and Evaluation of food (and nutritional) security in Brazil and Argentina; Progress and challenges of the Nascer Bem Movement in Caruaru; Farmácia Cuidar+ Program; ‘Hospital Week’; Discourses of LGBTQIAPN+ people on suicide; first contact access and longitudinality in Primary Health Care; The Policy for Combating Violence against Women: Dialogues from CAPS; sleep quality, erectile function, and quality of life in men; Municipal managers’ perceptions of the PMAQ: Experience in the Crato Health Region, Ceará, Brazil; Management of mental health care in general hospitals; Plan for Combating Non-Communicable Chronic Diseases in Brazil, 2011-2022; Pregnancy-puerperal cycle of transmasculine people; Analysis of healthcare judicialization in Minas Gerais; Analysis of healthcare judicialization in Minas Gerais; Implementation and pillars to support Advanced Access; The transformation of the mexican health system toward Primary Health Care; Scholarly publishing: Between science and the market; Scientific publication and originality in the face of institutional repository policy.