Comparison Analysis of Multidimensional Segmentation Using Medical Health-Care Information

The aim of this chapter is to demonstrate the importance and necessity of bringing together the considerations of language and reproduction. While other topics of sexuality have aroused interest in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, the ideas, practices, and experiences of human reproduction, notably pregnancy, remain understudied. At the same time, a discussion of language has been largely absent from the anthropology of reproduction, which has emerged in the last twenty years as an especially vibrant area of cultural and social study. The chapter examines the metaphors and discourses or the “talk about” reproduction; the interactions and “talk between” people, like pregnant women and medical health care providers, which shapes the ordinary experiences of reproduction; the “talk to” parties (specifically, fetuses and imagined children) who themselves become constituted through talk; and reproduction as literacy event or one that is mediated and experienced in relation to texts. It is asserted that language is a practice of reproduction.

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An integrated health care information processing and retrieval system

10.1145/1500175.1500193 ◽

1974 ◽

Author(s):

Kevin C. O'Kane ◽

Richard J. Hildebrandt

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Information Processing ◽

Retrieval System ◽

Integrated Health Care ◽

Health Care Information ◽

Integrated Health ◽

Care Information

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Speech, Language and Hearing services in Primary Health Care in Brazil: an analysis of provision and an estimate of shortage, 2005-2015

Revista CEFAC ◽

10.1590/1982-021620182031918 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 353-362 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Larissa Hellen Teixeira Viégas ◽

Tatiane Costa Meira ◽

Brenda Sousa Santos ◽

Yukari Figueroa Mise ◽

Vladimir Andrei Rodrigues Arce ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Primary Health Care ◽

Ecological Study ◽

Descriptive Analysis ◽

National Registry ◽

Health Care Information ◽

System A ◽

Primary Health ◽

Care Information ◽

Using Data

ABSTRACT Objective: to investigate the evolution and estimate the shortage of Speech, Language and Hearing professionals in Primary Health Care between 2005 and 2015. Methods: a mixed ecological study using data from the National Registry of Health Facilities and the Primary Health Care Information System. A descriptive analysis regarding the evolution of the number of professionals working in Primary Health Care over this period, in Brazilian states and regions, was conducted. The ratio of professionals per 100,000 inhabitants for the years 2005, 2010 and 2015, and the shortages in 2015, were estimated. Results: in 2005, there were 1,717 professionals working in Primary Health Care, that is, one per 100,000 inhabitants. In 2015, there were 4,124, increasing to 2.1/100,000. In 2015, the shortage in supply was 55.1%, varying widely across the states. Conclusion: the shortage in supply is equivalent to an absence of Speech, Language and Hearing service coverage within Primary Health Care for more than half of the Brazilian population. It is worth noting that a conservative parameter was adopted to conduct this estimate. The results suggest a process of consolidation for the inclusion of Speech, Language and Hearing professionals within Primary Health Care, however, still characterized by insufficient and unequal supply across the nation.

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