Determinants of Lack of Access to Treatment for Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer in Brazil.

Access to timely treatment is essential for the probability of the cure and reduction of severe breast cancer cases. In Brazil, legislation states that cancer treatment must start within 60 days of diagnosis. This study analyzed the factors associated with lack of access to breast cancer treatment in women with a confirmed diagnosis inserted in the health system. We collected secondary data from Brazilian women with a diagnosis and without treatment from January to December 2019 through the Cancer Hospital Registers developed by the National Cancer Institute. Our findings indicate that most women (60.11%) are diagnosed with stage II cancer but are without treatment. Most of them are aged 18-70 years, non-white race/color, have a low educational level and are from the Southeast Brazilian region. In addition, social inequalities are determinant in women's lack of access to breast cancer treatment.

Regulation of access to the hospital care network for children in Ceará, Brazil.

Regulation is a state management tool to ensure that networked health services and goods comply with the principles of universality of access and integrality of care in the Unified Health System. To describe the regulatory actions of access to children's health services in the hospital setting, a descriptive, documentary study was performed to address data on the regulation of access to hospital health-care points for children from January to October 2015. The sample consisted of 2485 hospitalization procedures and regulated transfers in children between 0 and 15 years old living in the Juazeiro do Norte Health Region in the State of Ceará. The children's health-care network in the referenced region includes 8 hospitals that together provide care for 105 163 children in the surgical, emergency, and intensive care areas. These hospitals have a total of 176 beds, of which 118 are pediatric clinics, 7 are surgical pediatric units, and 51 are neonatal and intensive care units. In the medical clinics, 2279 children were hospitalized for local admissions, and 206 (8.9%) were transferred to intensive care units. Most children were under 1 year old (43.6%). The regulation of access to the hospitals' health-care network seems to guarantee local and regional access to 6 municipalities in the region. However, a high waiting time for intensive care beds was observed.

Diagnósticos de enfermagem em crianças hospitalizadas / Nursing diagnoses in hospitalized children

Objetivo: descrever a frequência dos diagnósticos de enfermagem em crianças hospitalizadas. Métodos: estudo transversal, realizado em uma unidade hospitalar infantil, a partir de 738 prontuários. A análise dos dados baseou-se na estatística descritiva. Resultados: identificou-se frequência de 2.100 diagnósticos de enfermagem distribuídos em 15 conceitos de diagnósticos, seis domínios e 12 classes, conforme a Taxonomia II da NANDA-I. Os mais prevalentes foram: padrão respiratório ineficaz (18,7%), hipertermia (15,2%), padrão de sono prejudicado (11,1%), nutrição desequilibrada: menor do que as necessidades corporais (10,8%), medo (9,3%), dor aguda (7,1%) e diarreia (6,7%). Conclusão: foram descritos cinco diagnósticos de enfermagem mais incidentes em crianças hospitalizadas "padrão respiratório ineficaz", "hipertermia", "diarreia" "medo" e "dor aguda". Destes, os três primeiros apresentam estreita relação com as condições que determinam as maiores causas de hospitalização na infância: infecções respiratórias agudas e gastroenterites. (AU)

Percepção de enfermeiros sobre a adesão ao tratamento dos parceiros de gestantes com sífilis / Perception of nurses on the adhesion of partners of pregnant women with syphilis to the treatment

Investigar a percepção dos enfermeiros da Estratégia Saúde da Família sobre os fatores que interferem na adesão ao tratamento de parceiros sexuais de gestantes com sífilis. Métodos: pesquisa qualitativa, desenvolvida com 10 enfermeiras. Para a coleta de dados, utilizou-se a entrevista semiestruturada. Dados submetidos à análise temática. Resultados: foram identificadas as categorias: abordagem das enfermeiras aos parceiros de gestantes com sífilis; barreiras que interferem na adesão ao tratamento; estratégias e ações de adesão dos parceiros no tratamento; percepção da enfermeira acerca da responsabilidade de seguimento e comprovação do tratamento. Conclusão: identificou-se que os enfermeiros possuem percepção ampla acerca dos aspectos relativos à adesão ao tratamento, mas necessitam de melhor embasamento científico e prático para realizar as atividades de maneira eficaz diante do manejo dos parceiros sexuais com sífilis...