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Descritores sugeridos pelo Nethis/Fiocruz facilitam a busca por artigos científicos

Documentos científicos sobre “Agenda 2030”, “Comunidade de Países de Língua Portuguesa (CPLP)”, “Cooperação Sul-Sul”, “Diplomacia da Saúde”, “Governança” e “União de Nações Sul-Americanas (Unasul)” poderão ser facilmente encontrados em uma busca rápida na base de dados da Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS) graças a sugestão do Núcleo de Estudos sobre…
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Nethis/Fiocruz and ISAGS discuss joint activities

Cecília Lopes (Nethis/Fiocruz), Felix Rigoli (ISAGS), José Paranaguá de Santana (Nethis/Fiocruz) and Roberta de Freitas (Nethis/Fiocruz). Photo: Sérgio Velho (UNA-SUS) The holding of sessions of the Cycle of Debates on Bioethics, Diplomacy and Public Health to countries of Unasur (Union of South American Nations) was one…
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Nethis/Fiocruz Brasília Coordinator is honored at the III International Conference on Primary Health Care, in Piauí

Honorary President of the scientific meeting, José Paranaguá de Santana spoke about the evolution of policies of education and work in health in Latin America José Paranaguá de Santana (Nethis/Fiocruz Brasília) Image: Federal University of Piauí On the night of last Thursday, May 4th, the health…
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Brazilian Society of Bioethics issues note with criticism of the Bill on new rules for research with human beings

The Plenary of the Senate approved, on February 15th, Senate Bill # 200/2015 (PLS # 200/2015), aimed to modify the existing rules on research with human beings. Such a stance is contrary to the majority opinion of militancy in favor of the rights of the participants of the studies, since,…
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Poverty shortens life more than obesity, alcohol and hypertension

Source: Javier Salas, El País. The scientific evidence is strong: poverty and social inequality seriously harm your health. However, health officials do not give these social factors the same attention they devote to others when they try to improve the health of citizens. A study about 1.7 million people, published by the medical…
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Nethis wins R$ 35000 in Capes open call

For the second year in a row, the Center for Bioethics and Diplomacy Studies in Health (Nethis) won the open call / notice of the Program for Support to Events in the Country of the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Paep/Capes). The resource (R$ 35000 ) will…
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Law of Chilean labelling receives international support

Promulgated on June 27th of last year, the Chilean law on food has caused great debates and political and economic pressures, both inside and outside that country. When resolving to face the high rate of child overweight in the country, which reaches half (5 in 10) of Chilean children, the…
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Smoking will kill 8 million people annually, says WHO

Study estimates that habit costs around US$1 trillion a year to the global economy Smoking costs the global economy more than US$1 trillion a year and will kill a third more number of people until 2030, compared to the number of deaths that already causes currently. The forecast is that…
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VHL Bioethics and Health Diplomacy opens selection to volunteer internship

Those interested in performing the volunteer internship must send curriculum, in CNPQ Lattes model in PDF file to the email: nethis@fiocruz.br stating the title of the message "Seleção Estágio Voluntário no Nethis (Selection Nethis Volunteer Internship", until February 03rd 2017. To be eligible, one must be studying from the 5th…
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Seminar features exchange of experiences in community health between Brazil and Africa

The experiences in the implementation of the program of Health Agents in Angola and connections to the practice carried out in Brazil were the themes of the I Seminar Development, Inequality and International Cooperation in Health held on Monday (19th), in the Auditorium of the Rectory of Federal University of…
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