Flaviopédia Português
Brazil for Women

Health for Women ("Saúde para Elas")

more prevention, fewer queues

Provides for preventive women's health care close to home and via telemedicine, an integrated electronic health record, more preventive tests, oral health care and mobile units in buses, trucks and boats.

In the program: [p. 21] · Translated by Flaviopédia from the official Portuguese text; the Portuguese quote is authoritative. Read the original in Portuguese

What the program says

We will take care of women’s health preventively, without long queues, with care close to home and also by cell phone, through telemedicine or at health clinics that we will expand and build. The integrated electronic health record will ensure screening and follow-up throughout life, through a health database that will connect doctors of different specialties, and women will no longer lose an entire day of work to take care of their own health. We will expand access to preventive tests, caring for women with cancer, in menopause, during pregnancy or suffering from endometriosis, for example, and also provide access to oral health care. And we will have “Unidades Móveis de Saúde da Mulher” (“Women’s Health Mobile Units”), adapted buses or trucks that will travel the country, as well as adapted boats to serve the riverside population. [p. 21]

In plain language

  • The program provides for preventive women’s health care, without long queues, close to home and also by cell phone, through telemedicine or at health clinics that would be expanded and built.
  • It proposes an integrated electronic health record, linked to a database that would connect doctors of different specialties, for screening and follow-up throughout life. The text states that this way women would not lose an entire day of work to take care of their health.
  • It provides for expanding access to preventive tests, with care for women with cancer, in menopause, during pregnancy or with endometriosis, among other cases, and for providing access to oral health care.
  • There would be “Unidades Móveis de Saúde da Mulher”, in adapted buses or trucks that would travel the country, as well as adapted boats to serve the riverside population.

What is not in the program

  • It does not state how many health clinics would be expanded or built or how many mobile units there would be.
  • It does not detail how telemedicine would work or who would have access to the electronic health record and the database.
  • It does not specify which preventive tests would be expanded or how access to oral health care would work.
  • It does not define who carries out the measures.
  • It gives no timeline, cost or source of funding.