This study aimed to analyze how the Brazilian Ministry of Health (MS) is implementing the Sex Reassignment Process (SRP) in the

RESUMO: Objetivo: Este estudo objetivou descrever o perfil das notificações das violências contra pessoas lésbicas, gays, bissexuais, travestis e transexuais (LGBT) no Brasil, entre 2015 e 2017. Métodos: Estudo seccional descritivo, com dados secundários do Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação, sobre o perfil de casos notificados de violência contra pessoas LGBT. A população do estudo incluiu indivíduos com 10 anos ou mais de idade e orientação homossexual ou bissexual, bem como identidades de gênero transexual ou travesti. Resultados: Nos três anos analisados, registraram-se 24.564 notificações de violências contra a população LGBT. Quanto ao perfil dos indivíduos, 69,1% tinham entre 20 e 59 anos de idade, metade era negra (50%), 46,6% eram transexuais ou travestis e 57,6% eram homossexuais, dos quais 32,6% lésbicas e 25% gays. Em todas as faixas etárias, a natureza de violência mais frequente foi a física (75%), e em 66,2% dos casos o provável autor é do sexo masculino, sendo o principal vínculo o de parceiro íntimo (27,2%), seguido do de desconhecido (16,5%). Conclusão: Este estudo amplia o conhecimento acerca das violências contra LGBT no Brasil e reforça a importância da notificação compulsória e a necessidade de preenchimento adequado dos campos sobre orientação sexual e identidade de gênero para a produção de evidências que subsidiem ações de enfrentamento ao problema.

Background: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a teaching format with universal access and the potential and viability to be implemented by health professionals. Despite their proven success in providing high-quality continuing education, usage and offerings of this technology are still scarce in Brazil. Materials and Methods: This article describes the development of an online-based education strategy (MOOC) on the topic of health policies aimed at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI+) population and analyzes its performance and reach after 6 months. Results: This introductory MOOC course on LGBTI+ health included an assortment of multimedia material and consisted of 30 h of autonomous learning activities divided into two modules, with problem-based evaluation strategies. During its 6-month promotion period, the course had a total of 3,000 people enrolled with a completion rate of *20%. Conclusions: Results point to a high interest in LGBTI+ health and high demand for training on this topic among health professionals. This was the first course of its kind administered in Brazil. The MOOC format was successful and reliable in enabling the teaching-learning process.

The current health, political, and environmental crisis ongoing in Brazil and the advances of the impacts of COVID-19 in traditional populations (as indigenous and quilombolas) are not yet prioritized in the scientific production about the novel coronavirus. We performed spatial correlation analysis to map the clusters and outliers of COVID-19 in South of Brazil to identify indigenous and quilombolas communities impacted right now in the pandemic. We show that communities located nearby metropolitan areas and mid-sized cities are the most impacted by the COVID-19 and the advance of the transmission to inner states may intensify the ongoing historical process of elimination of indigenous and quilombolas people. We call for a global response to the indigenous and quilombolas situation in Brazil, pointing to the need of more analysis in the country;

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Resumo Este trabalho investiga como a saúde de pessoas lésbicas, gays, bissexuais, travestis, transexuais e intersexuais (LGBTI) tem sido afetada no contexto da pandemia da covid-19, por meio da percepção de ativistas da sociedade civil organizada, no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (RS), Brasil. Realizou-se uma análise qualitativa, que reporta dados preliminares de um estudo maior sobre a Política Nacional de Saúde LGBTI. O levantamento foi feito entre maio e julho de 2020, com a aplicação de entrevistas realizadas online. O enfoque se deu sobre as percepções, as experiências individuais e coletivas de ativistas sobre a temática da saúde LGBTI, em meio ao atravessamento da pandemia da covid-19. Constataram-se efeitos sobre a mobilização comunitária; o acesso aos serviços de saúde; a saúde mental; e as situações de violência e proteção social. Conclui-se que as intervenções coletivas de pessoas LGBTI são fundamentais em contextos de crise sanitária e dão suporte à garantia do direito à saúde e preservação de políticas públicas a esta população.

IntroductionIntimate partner violence (IPV) considerably harms the health, safety and well-being of women. In response, public health systems around the globe have been gradually implementing strategies. In particular, low-income and middle-income countries (LMIC) have been developing innovative interventions in primary healthcare (PHC) addressing the problem. This paper describes a protocol for a systematic review of studies addressing the impacts and outcomes of PHC centre interventions addressing IPV against women from LMIC.Methods and analysisA systematic search for studies will be conducted in African Index Medicus, Africa Portal Digital Library, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Embase, Index Medicus for the Southeast Asia Region, IndMed, Latin American and Caribbean Health Science Literature Database (LILACS), Medecins Sans Frontieres, MEDLINE, Minority Health and Health Equity Archive, ProQuest, PsycINFO, Scientific Electronic Library Online, (SciELO) and Social Policy and Practice. Studies will be in English, Spanish and Portuguese, published between 2007 and 2017, addressing IPV against women from LMIC, whose data quantitatively report on the impacts and outcomes for survivors and/or workers and/or public health systems preintervention and postintervention. Two trilingual reviewers will independently screen for study eligibility and data extraction, and a librarian will cross-check for compliance. Risk of bias and quality assessment of studies will be measured according to: (1) the Cochrane Collaboration’s tool for assessing risk of bias for randomised controlled trials and (2) the Methodological Index for Non-Randomised Studies (MINORS). Data will be analysed and summarised using meta-analysis and narrative description of the evidence across studies. This systematic review will be reported according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Protocols(PRISMA P) guidelines.Ethics and disseminationThis systematic review will be based on published studies, thus not requiring ethical approval. Findings will be presented in conferences and published in a peer-reviewed journal.PROSPERO registration number CRD42017069261.

Monitoring the evidence-based hospital health care process indicators reveals undesirable disparities. Administrative data sets are of considerable practical value in broad-based quality assessments and as a screening tool, also in the health disparities domain.