Lydia H. Liu. Translingual practice : literature, national culture, and translated modernity : China, 1900-1937

This article reviews the book Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity—China, 1900-1937 , written by Lydia H. Liu

Yingjin Zhang. The city in modern Chinese literature and film : configurations of space, time, and gender

This article reviews the book The City in Modern Chinese Literature and Film: Configurations of Space, Time, and Gender written by Yingjin Zhang

Hospitals and health professional education: contemporary challenges

Both the role of hospitals in health professionals education and hospital's needs in terms of professionals for health care and hospital management are changing as health systems move towards quality, comprehensiveness, efficiency and costs control. The article intends to analyze dilemmas and challenges in each of these fields, acknowledging hospitals' complexity, their critical role on healthcare delivery and their deep involvement in the hegemonic orientation for health education and practice.O lugar do hospital na formação em saúde e as demandas dos próprios hospitais em relação à formação de profissionais para atenção e gestão hospitalares estão em processo de redefinição, tendo em vista a busca por qualidade, integralidade, eficiência e controle de custos nos sistemas de saúde. O artigo procura contextualizar os dilemas e tensões em cada um desses campos, reconhecendo a complexidade da organização hospitalar, seu lugar crítico na prestação de serviços e seu profundo envolvimento no engendramento do modelo médico-hegemônico no âmbito das práticas e da formação em saúde.Universidade Federal Fluminense Instituto de Saúde da Comunidade Departamento de Planejamento em SaúdeUniversidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)UNIFESPSciEL

Healthcare regulation and healthcare management as tools to assure comprehensiveness and equity in health

A produção do cuidado integral e a eqüidade são desafios na gestão do SUS. Analisou-se um arranjo da gestão municipal para a produção do cuidado implantado por meio da regulação assistencial com o objetivo de enriquecer as reflexões sobre o tema. Foi realizado estudo de caso em que os dados foram obtidos mediante observação, entrevistas, narrativas escritas e análise documental. Os sujeitos da pesquisa foram gestores e trabalhadores da Secretaria de Saúde. Como resultado destaca-se um conceito de rede viva, produzida ativamente pela construção de relações entre os trabalhadores dos diferentes serviços. Destacam-se as ações de apoio ao cuidado produzido pelas equipes, com base na regulação assistencial e na gestão dos processos de trabalho. Os resultados foram expressivos na qualificação do cuidado, na redução das filas às especialidades e na satisfação dos profissionais. Como marca do processo, evidencia-se a necessidade de enriquecer, em ato, os saberes técnicos com as tecnologias leves e os saberes produzidos em movimentos ativos da gestão para a produção do cuidado.Healthcare production that assures comprehensiveness and equity has posed a challenge for Brazil's Unified National Health System. The aim of this study was to contribute to the debate on the issue, analyzing an experience with municipal healthcare management using regulation to improve quality of care. We conducted a case study in which data were obtained through direct observation, interviews, written narratives, and document analysis. The research subjects were health services managers and health workers. The results feature the concept of a living network, produced actively by building relations between the health workers in the different services. The study highlights the measures to support the care produced by the teams, based on healthcare regulation and work processes management. The results were expressive in upgrading the care, reducing the waiting lines for the specialties, and increasing the health workers' satisfaction. The key feature in the process was the evident need to enrich (through acts) the technical knowledge with light technologies and active movements by management in the production of care

Chinese Historiography

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A White Horse May or May Not Be a Horse, but Megahistory Is Not Economic History

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Ongoing health education: A strategy for involvement in health micropolicy

Objectives: To present a conceptual basis for the health education policies developed by the Brazilian Ministry of Health from January 2003 to July 2005

The state and the economy in late imperial China

Non-development of a modern economy, the failure to begin modern economic growth, I am prepared to argue but that would require another article- is “over-determined.” It's not a particularly interesting theoretical question any more. Proponents of economic, political, cultural, social structural, demographic and other explanations have each adduced overwhelming arguments and evidence for their favored explanations. In fact, any one - or two - is a sufficiently mortal debility for the premodern economies and societies that they have studied. More is merely overkill. What we really don't know for sure yet is how modern economic growth begins - even in the case of Western Europe whose economic history has been minutely examined for more than a century. The common fate of most of mankind before the very recent past - slow and uncertain premodern growth of population and output where it occurred, stagnation or decline otherwise - has not (by historians at least) received attention comparable to the more fashionable problem of modern development, whether that be phrased as the Marxist “transition” from “feudalism” to “capitalism,” the neo-classical growth model, or the perhaps now somewhat faded study of “modernization.”Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/43641/1/11186_2004_Article_BF00213228.pd