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The public production of medicines in Brazil

The paper aims to contribute as a reflection on the public production of medicines in Brazil. It concludes the relevance of the OPL for the Brazilian health policy, with the better realignment of their potential in the face of technological advancement, health legislation, drug dependence and new treatment protocols.
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Towards post-colonial capacity-building methodologies – some remarks on the experiences of health researchers from Mozambique and Angola

There is currently a growing academic and institutional interest in issues of capacity building and research partnerships. It is widely recognized that North/South partnerships are fundamental to attaining innovation, leading to improvements in virtually every social field, including science, technology and health. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 17 is specifically focused on research partnerships, […]
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Elementary and lower secondary school students’ perceptions of the health at school programme: A case study in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

The Health at School Programme is a Brazilian inter-sector policy resulting from a partnership between the Ministries of Health and Education to expand health actions to public school students, with a view to the comprehensive education of primary and lower middle school students. This qualitative study was carried out in 2016 to investigate Brazilian schoolchildren’s […]
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Social inequality, health policies and the training of physicians, nurses and dentists in Brazil and in Portugal

This study analyzes the production of scientific knowledge on Health Inequalities (HI) and its use in policies of education of dentists, nurses and physicians in Brazil and Portugal. Documents published between January 2000 and December 2001, in Portuguese, French, English and Spanish, were identified by means of a combination of a manual and intentional electronic […]
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About GHTM

GHTM is a R&D Unit that brings together researchers from IHMT with a track record in Tropical Medicine and International/Global Health. It aims at strengthening Portugal's role as a leading partner in the development and implementation of a global health research agenda. Our evidence-based interventions contribute to the promotion of equity in health and to improve the health of populations.

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