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This book records the testimonies of two health professionals committed to the ideals they share, weaving routes and traversing trails in search of their dreams. Memories that sometimes recount stories of our nation's public health, particularly when the intertwined narratives of personal experiences with the processes of emergence and institutionalization…

The Federal University of Ceará (UFC) will receive the I Seminar Development, Inequality and International Cooperation in Health, with the panel Health Inequalities and the Health Agent, on December 19th, from 2:30 pm, in the Auditorium of the Rectory of UFC, in Fortaleza, Ceará. During the event, the book "The…

Health is a concept that belongs to the tradition of the metaphysical thought. From Aristotle to Nietzsche, who reflected on what the beings are and on what the man has to be especial as compared to other ones, thought also what means health as well. The concepts of health and…

Source: CCS/Fiocruz. On October 24th and 25th, in partnership with the Pan American Health Organization (Paho/WHO), the  Support  to Research and Public Policies on Alcohol, Crack and other Drugs Institutional Programme (PACD) at Fiocruz will promote the International Seminar on Alcohol, Health and Society. The meeting will address the epidemiological,…

An unprecedented research through all the resolutions of the United Nations (UN) General Assemblie, of the Economic and Social Council (Ecosoc/UN) and the World Health Organization (WHO), between 2005 and 2016, drew an international regulatory panorama of health risk factors related to tobacco, alcohol, ultraprocessed food and agrochemicals. The study…

The Advisor to Fiocruz Brasilia, José Agenor Álvares, former Director of the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) and former Minister of Health, was emphatic to blame the Federal Supreme Court (STF) as one of the instances able to solve a small part of the war between the powerful interests of…

The Center for Bioethics and Diplomacy Studies in Health (Nethis) and the Colaboratório of Fiocruz Brasilia invite to the VI Cycle of Debates with the Director of the Center for Technological Development in Health (CDTS/Fiocruz), Carlos Morel, next Thursday, June 23rd, from 8:30 am, in the Auditorium of Fiocruz Brasília.…

Paho/WHO Several countries of the Americas have made progress in the implementation of tobacco control policies in order to reduce the suffering and casualties as a result of its use. However, there is still much to be done to prevent the spread of the product, which kills about a million…

Nethis/Fiocruz Brasilia and the Department of Health Economics, Investments and Development of the Ministry of Health (Desid/MH) invite to the Seminar on Public Health in Latin America and the Caribbean, on May 30th and 31st in the Auditorium Carlyle Guerra de Macedo, at the Pan American Health Organization (Paho/WHO), in…

Latin was the vocabulary for the qualified as well as in literature before twelfth century. Infact, it'd a effect on the ancient planet. This was probable due to rise and development of Roman Empire until the kingdom in AD'S slip. Because the empire succeeded thus did the vocabulary. Nonetheless, the…