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Digital inclusion and health counselors: a policy for the reduction of social inequalities in Brazil.
de Moraes, Ilara Hämmerli Sozzi; Veiga, Luciana; Vasconcellos, Miguel Murat; dos Santos, Silvia Regina Fontoura Rangel.
Afiliação
  • de Moraes IH; Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21041-210, Brazil. ilara@ensp.fiocruz.br
Cien Saude Colet ; 14(3): 879-88, 2009.
Article em En, Pt | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19547787
Inequalities in health conditions remain even twenty years after the implementation of Unified Health System (SUS). This condition burdens social movements exerting social control on the health care area with a continuous fight. In this struggle, the accumulation of political power is related to an increase in the capacity to acquire knowledge and information. This study aims at fathoming the inequality surrounding the digital inclusion of Health Counselors (HC) of different regions within the country. We have adopted the qualitative survey method, which employs the Focal Groups technique, with HC representing managers, services providers, workers and users, all from national, state and municipal levels. Four aspects were examined, comprising reading and writing habits; Internet utilization; the use of health indicators; and the role of information in the Council-State-Society relation. Results have evidenced the need to broaden the foundations of digital inclusion initiatives in the health care area, and to overcome the cross-sector challenge of linking them to politics and education. By using benchmarks of educational philosophy, we were able to outline a theoretical-analytical matrix as a contribution to understanding the complexity involved in fostering digital inclusion in the health care area.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Justiça Social / Aconselhamento / Internet / Disseminação de Informação / Disparidades nos Níveis de Saúde Tipo de estudo: Qualitative_research Aspecto: Determinantes_sociais_saude / Equity_inequality / Patient_preference País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Brasil Idioma: En / Pt Revista: Cien Saude Colet Ano de publicação: 2009 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Brasil País de publicação: Brasil

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Justiça Social / Aconselhamento / Internet / Disseminação de Informação / Disparidades nos Níveis de Saúde Tipo de estudo: Qualitative_research Aspecto: Determinantes_sociais_saude / Equity_inequality / Patient_preference País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Brasil Idioma: En / Pt Revista: Cien Saude Colet Ano de publicação: 2009 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Brasil País de publicação: Brasil