Ricardo Alexsandro De Medeiros Valentim
Biographic Data
| ID | 1628077 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ricardo Alexsandro De Medeiros Valentim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ricardo Alexsandro De Medeiros |
| FAMILY NAME | Valentim |
| SIGNATURE | VALENTIM R A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9216-8593 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Permanent health education for health economics in Brazil: A forgotten facet
Introduction: This article analyzes the presence and induction of Permanent Health Education (PHE) in Health Economics (HE) within the official documents of the Department of Health Economics and Development (DESID) of Brazil's Ministry of Health (MoH). Methods: This is an exploratory and descriptive qualitative study, grounded in the document analysis of 126 records categorized according to the elements proposed by Williams and content analysis …
Variabilidade da cultura de segurança do paciente em hospitais brasileiros: Influência dos fatores contextuais
A segurança do paciente é um desafio estratégico para o Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) e uma prioridade para a qualidade hospitalar no Brasil. Este estudo descreve a variação da cultura de segurança entre hospitais brasileiros e analisa se fatores estruturais e organizacionais podem explicar parte dessas diferenças. Foi realizado um estudo transversal com dados coletados em 2021 de 42.038 profissionais de saúde que atuam em 304 hospitais públicos e…
Judicialização da saúde e o paradoxo da efetividade: Uma abordagem interdisciplinar
A judicialização da saúde revela a crescente atuação do Judiciário na garantia de políticas públicas, sobretudo no acesso a serviços e bens de saúde. Este estudo analisa, no Rio Grande do Norte (RN), a distribuição das ações judiciais entre os entes subnacionais e seus impactos na gestão pública, com base em Direito, Gestão Pública e Economia da Saúde. Foram identificadas 22.326 ações na Justiça Estadual entre 2016 e 2024, totalizando R$ 355,7 mi…
Interculturality, public health and health education: Data report based on the Virtual Learning Environment of the Brazilian Health System (Avasus)
Interculturality is increasingly gaining conceptual and operational relevance, especially in public health, since the cultural diversity of population groups generates myriad needs and demands for health services.In this scenario, technology-mediated Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become innovative strategies for health training from an intercultural perspective (1,2). In Brazil, this is exemplified by the reinforcement of comprehensive…
Interculturality in the Development of Technology-Mediated Courses for Massive Health Education: A Systematic Review
Virtual Learning Environments have become innovative tools in health professionals education. Through Massive Open Online Courses, they enable different ways of connecting with knowledge, facilitating study autonomy, interaction, and closer alignment with professional practices and the context of course participants. MOOCs comprise an educational strategy for many fields, including health. As they educate health professionals about a variety of p…
Massive Education in Prison Health in Brazil: A Look Beyond the Walls
Equal access to health initiatives and services under the principles of universal and comprehensive care remains a challenge in Brazil. The realization of public health policies is further intricate when one examines the health situation of people deprived of liberty. This study showcases the "Prison System: Beyond the Walls" educational pathway, available on the Virtual Learning Environment of the Brazilian National Health System (AVASUS). The a…
Text mining analysis to understand the impact of online news on public health response: Case of syphilis epidemic in Brazil
Background: To effectively combat the rising incidence of syphilis, the Brazilian Ministry of Health (MoH) created a National Rapid Response to Syphilis with actions aimed at bolstering epidemiological surveillance of acquired, congenital syphilis, and syphilis during pregnancy complemented with communication activities to raise population awareness and to increase uptake of testing that targeted mass media outlets from November 2018 to March 201…
Computational methods applied to syphilis: Where are we, and where are we going
Syphilis is an infectious disease that can be diagnosed and treated cheaply. Despite being a curable condition, the syphilis rate is increasing worldwide. In this sense, computational methods can analyze data and assist managers in formulating new public policies for preventing and controlling sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Computational techniques can integrate knowledge from experiences and, through an inference mechanism, apply condit…
Digital health solution for monitoring and surveillance of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in Brazil
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a complex and rare neurodegenerative disease given its heterogeneity. Despite being known for many years, few countries have accurate information about the characteristics of people diagnosed with ALS, such as data regarding diagnosis and clinical features of the disease. In Brazil, the lack of information about ALS limits data for the research progress and public policy development that benefits people affe…
Evaluation of massive education in prison health: A perspective of health care for the person deprived of freedom in Brazil
Education, with an emphasis on prison health, has acted as a policy inducing changes in work processes, which the Brazilian National Health System (SUS) has used, and which is present in permanent health education, which promotes health care for people deprived of liberty. This article aims to present an analysis of the impacts of the strategy of massive education on prison health in Brazil from the perspective of health professionals and other a…
Salus Platform: A Digital Health Solution Tool for Managing Syphilis Cases in Brazil—A Comparative Analysis
(1) Introduction: Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) that constitutes a serious public health problem in Brazil and worldwide; (2) Methods: This was a descriptive and exploratory study that sought to analyze and compare the characteristics of Brazilian health systems with a new platform (Salus) developed by the Laboratory of Technological Innovation in Health in the scope of notification and management of disease data, including s…
Syphilis response policies and their assessments: A scoping review
Syphilis is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections (STIs) worldwide and has shown a rising trend in recent years, according to a report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2021. Given this problem, the present study aims to develop a scoping review of what has been done in the world after the publication of the global strategy for the elimination of STIs, with a specific focus on syphilis. Thus, we searched for pap…
The Text Mining Technique Applied to the Analysis of Health Interventions to Combat Congenital Syphilis in Brazil: The Case of the “Syphilis No!” Project
Congenital syphilis (CS) remains a threat to public health worldwide, especially in developing countries. To mitigate the impacts of the CS epidemic, the Brazilian government has developed a national intervention project called “Syphilis No.” Thus, among its range of actions is the production of thousands of writings featuring the experiences of research and intervention supporters (RIS) of the project, called field researchers. In addition, this…
The relevancy of massive health education in the Brazilian prison system: The course “health care for people deprived of freedom” and its impacts
Introduction: Brazil has one of the largest prison populations globally, with over 682,000 imprisoned people. Prison health is a public health emergency as it presents increasingly aggravating disease rates, mainly sexually transmitted infections (STI). And this problem already affects both developed and developing nations. Therefore, when thinking about intervention strategies to improve this scenario in Brazil, the course "Health Care for Peopl…
Management Solutions for the Restructuring of Laboratories Associated to the Sentinel Services for Syphilis and Other STIs
This article aims to develop management solutions to accompany the processes of acquiring and distributing equipment and/or materials needed for the restructuring of associated laboratories to the sentinel services (Sentinel Laboratories) for syphilis and other sexually transmitted infection in the scope of the “Syphilis No!” Project. To this end, we have taken steps to create an overview of the restructuring project for the sentinel laboratories…
Massive health education through technological mediation: Analyses and impacts on the syphilis epidemic in Brazil
With syphilis cases on the rise, Brazil declared an epidemic in 2016. To address the consequent public health crisis, the Ministry of Health laid out a rapid response plan, namely, the “Syphilis No!” Project (SNP), a national instrument to fight the disease which encompasses four dimensions: (a) management and governance, (b) surveillance, (c) comprehensive care, and (d) strengthening of educommunication. In the dimension of education, the SNP de…
Electronic health records in Brazil: Prospects and technological challenges
Electronic Health Records (EHR) are critical tools for advancing digital health worldwide. In Brazil, EHR development must follow specific standards, laws, and guidelines that contribute to implementing beneficial resources for population health monitoring. This paper presents an audit of the main approaches used for EHR development in Brazil, thus highlighting prospects, challenges, and existing gaps in the field. We applied a systematic review …
Development of a Cyclic Voltammetry-Based Method for the Detection of Antigens and Antibodies as a Novel Strategy for Syphilis Diagnosis
The improvement of laboratory diagnosis is a critical step for the reduction of syphilis cases around the world. In this paper, we present the development of an impedance-based method for detecting T. pallidum antigens and antibodies as an auxiliary tool for syphilis laboratory diagnosis. We evaluate the voltammetric signal obtained after incubation in carbon or gold nanoparticle-modified carbon electrodes in the presence or absence of Poly-L-Lys…
Sentiment Analysis in Understanding the Potential of Online News in the Public Health Crisis Response
This study analyzes online news disseminated throughout the pre-, during-, and post-intervention periods of the "Syphilis No!" Project, which was developed in Brazil between November 2018 and March 2019. We investigated the influence of sentiment aspects of news to explore their possible relationships with syphilis testing data in response to the syphilis epidemic in Brazil. A dictionary-based technique (VADER) was chosen to perform sentiment ana…
Analysis of the Impact of Communication Campaigns under the Project “Syphilis No”: A National Tool for Inducing and Promoting Health
Syphilis is increasingly prevalent around the world as a result of complex factors. In Brazil, the government declared a syphilis epidemic in 2016 and then set a strategic agenda to respond to this serious public health problem. In a joint effort, Brazil's Federal Court of Accounts (TCU) recommended that novel and diversified health communication strategies should be developed, which the "Syphilis No" project (SNP) later conducted through nationw…
Effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccination on Reduction of Hospitalizations and Deaths in Elderly Patients in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Since the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, vaccination has been the core strategy to mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in humans. This paper analyzes the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. We analyzed data from 23,516 hospitalized COVID-19 patients diagnosed between April 2020 and August 2021. We excluded the data from patients hospitalized through direct occupancy, unknown outcome…
Similarity Analysis in Understanding Online News in Response to Public Health Crisis
The findings presented in this study show that the volume of syphilis-related news reports has increased in recent years and gained popularity after the SNP started, having been boosted during the campaign and escalating even after its completion
A relevância de um ecossistema tecnológico no enfrentamento à Covid-19 no Sistema Único de Saúde: O caso do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil
É inegável o papel dos avanços tecnológicos para o fortalecimento da saúde. No tocante às tecnologias digitais, trata do uso crescente dos sistemas de informação e análise de dados em saúde nas ações de preparo, vigilância e resposta a surtos epidemiológicos, tema abordado neste artigo no contexto da pandemia provocada pelo vírus Sars-CoV-2 no estado do Rio Grande do Norte. Este estudo parte do pressuposto de que é possível potencializar a gestão…
Analyzing the reach of public health campaigns based on multidimensional aspects: The case of the syphilis epidemic in Brazil
From this perspective, the "Syphilis No!" Project was a positive influence, inducing policy to fight syphilis in Brazil by supporting the implementation of a testing, treatment, and cure agenda (#TesteTrateCure). Certainly, this inference was made by analyzing multidimensional aspects and because, prior to 2018, the country had largely neglected this disease, with no records of communication actions during that period
Produção Do Espaço Urbano E Políticas Públicas: A Operacionalização Do Observatório Do Aedes Aegypti No Rio Grande Do Norte/Rn
A produção do espaço urbano, resultado das relações sociais, configura-se emblemático no Rio Grande do Norte - Brasil, principalmente a partir da década de 1970, quando a população se tornou predominantemente urbana, conforme foi evidenciado no Censo de 1980. Esse fenômeno desencadeou problemas ambientais e urbanos, como exemplo saneamento básico precário em áreas ocupadas por população de baixa renda, os quais estão associados a desigualdade soc…
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Produção Do Espaço Urbano E Políticas Públicas: A Operacionalização Do Observatório Do Aedes Aegypti No Rio Grande Do Norte/Rn
A produção do espaço urbano, resultado das relações sociais, configura-se emblemático no Rio Grande do Norte - Brasil, principalmente a partir da década de 1970, quando a população se tornou predominantemente urbana, conforme foi evidenciado no Censo de 1980. Esse fenômeno desencadeou problemas ambientais e urbanos, como exemplo saneamento básico precário em áreas ocupadas por população de baixa renda, os quais estão associados a desigualdade soc…
A relevância de um ecossistema tecnológico no enfrentamento à Covid-19 no Sistema Único de Saúde: O caso do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil
É inegável o papel dos avanços tecnológicos para o fortalecimento da saúde. No tocante às tecnologias digitais, trata do uso crescente dos sistemas de informação e análise de dados em saúde nas ações de preparo, vigilância e resposta a surtos epidemiológicos, tema abordado neste artigo no contexto da pandemia provocada pelo vírus Sars-CoV-2 no estado do Rio Grande do Norte. Este estudo parte do pressuposto de que é possível potencializar a gestão…
Analyzing the reach of public health campaigns based on multidimensional aspects: The case of the syphilis epidemic in Brazil
From this perspective, the "Syphilis No!" Project was a positive influence, inducing policy to fight syphilis in Brazil by supporting the implementation of a testing, treatment, and cure agenda (#TesteTrateCure). Certainly, this inference was made by analyzing multidimensional aspects and because, prior to 2018, the country had largely neglected this disease, with no records of communication actions during that period
Syphilis response policies and their assessments: A scoping review
Syphilis is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections (STIs) worldwide and has shown a rising trend in recent years, according to a report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2021. Given this problem, the present study aims to develop a scoping review of what has been done in the world after the publication of the global strategy for the elimination of STIs, with a specific focus on syphilis. Thus, we searched for pap…
The Text Mining Technique Applied to the Analysis of Health Interventions to Combat Congenital Syphilis in Brazil: The Case of the “Syphilis No!” Project
Congenital syphilis (CS) remains a threat to public health worldwide, especially in developing countries. To mitigate the impacts of the CS epidemic, the Brazilian government has developed a national intervention project called “Syphilis No.” Thus, among its range of actions is the production of thousands of writings featuring the experiences of research and intervention supporters (RIS) of the project, called field researchers. In addition, this…
The relevancy of massive health education in the Brazilian prison system: The course “health care for people deprived of freedom” and its impacts
Introduction: Brazil has one of the largest prison populations globally, with over 682,000 imprisoned people. Prison health is a public health emergency as it presents increasingly aggravating disease rates, mainly sexually transmitted infections (STI). And this problem already affects both developed and developing nations. Therefore, when thinking about intervention strategies to improve this scenario in Brazil, the course "Health Care for Peopl…
Management Solutions for the Restructuring of Laboratories Associated to the Sentinel Services for Syphilis and Other STIs
This article aims to develop management solutions to accompany the processes of acquiring and distributing equipment and/or materials needed for the restructuring of associated laboratories to the sentinel services (Sentinel Laboratories) for syphilis and other sexually transmitted infection in the scope of the “Syphilis No!” Project. To this end, we have taken steps to create an overview of the restructuring project for the sentinel laboratories…
Massive health education through technological mediation: Analyses and impacts on the syphilis epidemic in Brazil
With syphilis cases on the rise, Brazil declared an epidemic in 2016. To address the consequent public health crisis, the Ministry of Health laid out a rapid response plan, namely, the “Syphilis No!” Project (SNP), a national instrument to fight the disease which encompasses four dimensions: (a) management and governance, (b) surveillance, (c) comprehensive care, and (d) strengthening of educommunication. In the dimension of education, the SNP de…
Electronic health records in Brazil: Prospects and technological challenges
Electronic Health Records (EHR) are critical tools for advancing digital health worldwide. In Brazil, EHR development must follow specific standards, laws, and guidelines that contribute to implementing beneficial resources for population health monitoring. This paper presents an audit of the main approaches used for EHR development in Brazil, thus highlighting prospects, challenges, and existing gaps in the field. We applied a systematic review …
Development of a Cyclic Voltammetry-Based Method for the Detection of Antigens and Antibodies as a Novel Strategy for Syphilis Diagnosis
The improvement of laboratory diagnosis is a critical step for the reduction of syphilis cases around the world. In this paper, we present the development of an impedance-based method for detecting T. pallidum antigens and antibodies as an auxiliary tool for syphilis laboratory diagnosis. We evaluate the voltammetric signal obtained after incubation in carbon or gold nanoparticle-modified carbon electrodes in the presence or absence of Poly-L-Lys…
Sentiment Analysis in Understanding the Potential of Online News in the Public Health Crisis Response
This study analyzes online news disseminated throughout the pre-, during-, and post-intervention periods of the "Syphilis No!" Project, which was developed in Brazil between November 2018 and March 2019. We investigated the influence of sentiment aspects of news to explore their possible relationships with syphilis testing data in response to the syphilis epidemic in Brazil. A dictionary-based technique (VADER) was chosen to perform sentiment ana…
Analysis of the Impact of Communication Campaigns under the Project “Syphilis No”: A National Tool for Inducing and Promoting Health
Syphilis is increasingly prevalent around the world as a result of complex factors. In Brazil, the government declared a syphilis epidemic in 2016 and then set a strategic agenda to respond to this serious public health problem. In a joint effort, Brazil's Federal Court of Accounts (TCU) recommended that novel and diversified health communication strategies should be developed, which the "Syphilis No" project (SNP) later conducted through nationw…
Effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccination on Reduction of Hospitalizations and Deaths in Elderly Patients in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Since the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, vaccination has been the core strategy to mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in humans. This paper analyzes the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. We analyzed data from 23,516 hospitalized COVID-19 patients diagnosed between April 2020 and August 2021. We excluded the data from patients hospitalized through direct occupancy, unknown outcome…
Similarity Analysis in Understanding Online News in Response to Public Health Crisis
The findings presented in this study show that the volume of syphilis-related news reports has increased in recent years and gained popularity after the SNP started, having been boosted during the campaign and escalating even after its completion
Text mining analysis to understand the impact of online news on public health response: Case of syphilis epidemic in Brazil
Background: To effectively combat the rising incidence of syphilis, the Brazilian Ministry of Health (MoH) created a National Rapid Response to Syphilis with actions aimed at bolstering epidemiological surveillance of acquired, congenital syphilis, and syphilis during pregnancy complemented with communication activities to raise population awareness and to increase uptake of testing that targeted mass media outlets from November 2018 to March 201…
Computational methods applied to syphilis: Where are we, and where are we going
Syphilis is an infectious disease that can be diagnosed and treated cheaply. Despite being a curable condition, the syphilis rate is increasing worldwide. In this sense, computational methods can analyze data and assist managers in formulating new public policies for preventing and controlling sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Computational techniques can integrate knowledge from experiences and, through an inference mechanism, apply condit…
Digital health solution for monitoring and surveillance of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in Brazil
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a complex and rare neurodegenerative disease given its heterogeneity. Despite being known for many years, few countries have accurate information about the characteristics of people diagnosed with ALS, such as data regarding diagnosis and clinical features of the disease. In Brazil, the lack of information about ALS limits data for the research progress and public policy development that benefits people affe…
Evaluation of massive education in prison health: A perspective of health care for the person deprived of freedom in Brazil
Education, with an emphasis on prison health, has acted as a policy inducing changes in work processes, which the Brazilian National Health System (SUS) has used, and which is present in permanent health education, which promotes health care for people deprived of liberty. This article aims to present an analysis of the impacts of the strategy of massive education on prison health in Brazil from the perspective of health professionals and other a…
Salus Platform: A Digital Health Solution Tool for Managing Syphilis Cases in Brazil—A Comparative Analysis
(1) Introduction: Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) that constitutes a serious public health problem in Brazil and worldwide; (2) Methods: This was a descriptive and exploratory study that sought to analyze and compare the characteristics of Brazilian health systems with a new platform (Salus) developed by the Laboratory of Technological Innovation in Health in the scope of notification and management of disease data, including s…
Interculturality in the Development of Technology-Mediated Courses for Massive Health Education: A Systematic Review
Virtual Learning Environments have become innovative tools in health professionals education. Through Massive Open Online Courses, they enable different ways of connecting with knowledge, facilitating study autonomy, interaction, and closer alignment with professional practices and the context of course participants. MOOCs comprise an educational strategy for many fields, including health. As they educate health professionals about a variety of p…
Massive Education in Prison Health in Brazil: A Look Beyond the Walls
Equal access to health initiatives and services under the principles of universal and comprehensive care remains a challenge in Brazil. The realization of public health policies is further intricate when one examines the health situation of people deprived of liberty. This study showcases the "Prison System: Beyond the Walls" educational pathway, available on the Virtual Learning Environment of the Brazilian National Health System (AVASUS). The a…
Judicialização da saúde e o paradoxo da efetividade: Uma abordagem interdisciplinar
A judicialização da saúde revela a crescente atuação do Judiciário na garantia de políticas públicas, sobretudo no acesso a serviços e bens de saúde. Este estudo analisa, no Rio Grande do Norte (RN), a distribuição das ações judiciais entre os entes subnacionais e seus impactos na gestão pública, com base em Direito, Gestão Pública e Economia da Saúde. Foram identificadas 22.326 ações na Justiça Estadual entre 2016 e 2024, totalizando R$ 355,7 mi…
Interculturality, public health and health education: Data report based on the Virtual Learning Environment of the Brazilian Health System (Avasus)
Interculturality is increasingly gaining conceptual and operational relevance, especially in public health, since the cultural diversity of population groups generates myriad needs and demands for health services.In this scenario, technology-mediated Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become innovative strategies for health training from an intercultural perspective (1,2). In Brazil, this is exemplified by the reinforcement of comprehensive…
Permanent health education for health economics in Brazil: A forgotten facet
Introduction: This article analyzes the presence and induction of Permanent Health Education (PHE) in Health Economics (HE) within the official documents of the Department of Health Economics and Development (DESID) of Brazil's Ministry of Health (MoH). Methods: This is an exploratory and descriptive qualitative study, grounded in the document analysis of 126 records categorized according to the elements proposed by Williams and content analysis …
Variabilidade da cultura de segurança do paciente em hospitais brasileiros: Influência dos fatores contextuais
A segurança do paciente é um desafio estratégico para o Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) e uma prioridade para a qualidade hospitalar no Brasil. Este estudo descreve a variação da cultura de segurança entre hospitais brasileiros e analisa se fatores estruturais e organizacionais podem explicar parte dessas diferenças. Foi realizado um estudo transversal com dados coletados em 2021 de 42.038 profissionais de saúde que atuam em 304 hospitais públicos e…
Medicine (18 works) · Public health (12 works) · Family medicine (11 works) · Syphilis (11 works) · Nursing (10 works) · Syphilis Diagnosis and Treatment (10 works) · Environmental health (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Health, Nursing, Elderly Care (7 works)