Background: The Peruvian health system provides care through numerous, disconnected health establishments and information systems. Our objective was to explore information use and needs of pregnant women to improve quality ...

Aging societies worldwide propose a significant challenge to the model and organisation of the delivery of healthcare services. In developing countries, communicable and non-communicable diseases are affecting how the ...

Maria Cristiane Barbosa Galvao is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Medicine at the Ribeirao Preto Medical School of the University of Sao Paulo. She has a PhD in Information Science by the University of ...

Introduction: The World Health Organization introduced the workload indicators of staffing needs (WISN) in 1998 to improve country-level health workforce planning. This study presents the primary care health workforce ...

Currently, health information systems in the Family Health Units help professionals to produce a high volume of information daily. Given this, it is imperative that this amount of information produced be managed in an ...

Brazil has developed health information and communication technologies (ICT), however, to date health information systems are fragmented and endeavors to integrate them have failed. This work links two theoretical streams ...