Author: Lilian Callo

Local capacities in 18 countries increase providing visibility to scientific output in health

One of the pillars of the network developed by BIREME is the development of local capacities in such a way that each of the cooperating institutions have autonomy for the adequacy and application of the methodologies offered by BIREME in their countries and area. In the 33 years of LILACS, its methodology is adopted by institutions that implant dozens of virtual libraries and national and/or thematic databases in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, in Spain and in some African Portuguese-speaking countries.

The International Nursing VHL supports PAHO/WHO ‘Nursing Now’ Campaign

The Nursing Now campaign was launched by the Federal Nursing Council, in collaboration with the WHO Collaborating Center for the Development of Research in Nursing, linked to the University of São Paulo Nursing School at Ribeirão Preto. The theme “Where there is life, there is nursing” has as a main objective to present professionals in the field as the true protagonists in health. BIREME contributes with the theme through support in the construction, updating, maintenance and dissemination of the Nursing VHL and the Nursing Database (BDENF), developed collectively by institutions from over seven countries for selecting, organizing and disseminating high quality scientific and technical information in nursing sciences.

Strengthening the VHL Network in Fiocruz is a priority action to BIREME

Within the framework of the actions for strengthening the Virtual Health Library Network (VHL Network) in Brazil, BIREME promoted a meeting at the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), with the purpose of making an analysis of the situation of the VHL instances that are coordinated by that institution and defining a plan for strengthening the network, in coordination with the National Plan of the Brazil VHL.

The Primary Health Care strategy is strengthened by promoting the VHL at local level

BIREME contributes to promote scientific and technical knowledge in local contexts and in Primary Health Care (PHC), in consonance with the resolutions approved in the 72nd World Health Assembly. The Center also participated in the IV International Congress on Primary Health Care (CIAPS), which had as a central theme the Sustainable Development Objectives (SDO) from the 2030 Agenda, as well as how to reduce the gap between knowledge and practice.

BIREME joins the WHO campaign “Walk the Talk: The Health for All Challenge 2019”

The World Health Organization organized the event “Walk the Talk: The Health for All Challenge” on May 19th in Geneva, Switzerland, coinciding with the eve of the inauguration of the 72nd World Health Assembly in the same city, inspired by the great success attained in the first edition of the event in 2018. Delegations from countries in the Americas and from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) participated actively in all activities, which had the participation of Dr. Carissa Etienne, PAHO/WHO Director. BIREME, as a PAHO/WHO Specialized Center, supports this and other actions in favor of health, encouraging its collaborators to practice physical activities and to adopt healthy lifestyles.

World Health Day 2019: Universal Health for Everyone, Everywhere

World Health Day, celebrated on April 7th, marks this year the end of the 70th anniversary celebrations of the World Health Organization (WHO). In the Region of the Americas, these celebrations focus on universal health, under the theme “Universal Health: Everyone, Everywhere”. Special mention must be made for the events organized by public institutions and NGOs for World Health Day in the city of São Paulo, with the participation of BIREME.

Interim Director of the EIH Department visits BIREME

Dr. Jacobo Finkelman, interim Director of the Department of Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health (EIH) visited BIREME on April 24 to 26. The objective of this visit was to align the Center’s work and technical cooperation to the activities held in Latin America and the Caribbean by the Department, in which BIREME is integrated.

Management, institutionality and technical cooperation of BIREME are part of the agenda of the Ministry of Health of Brazil

Alexandre Pozza Urnau Silva, Sub Secretary of Administrative Issues of the Brazilian Ministry of Health and the General Coordination of Documentation and Information (Coordenação Geral de Documentação e Informação, CGDI team met at BIREME to discuss topics on the management, institutionality and technical cooperation of the Center. Besides Dr. Diego González Machín, Director, and the BIREME team, Jacobo Finkelman, Interim Director of the PAHO/WHO EIH Department, and Janine Coutinho, Knowledge Management Consultant for PAHO/WHO Brazil, also attended the meeting.

Windows of Knowledge – A new concept for highlighting health information on the VHL

BIREME, as a PAHO/WHO Specialized Center on health sciences information, is constantly searching for innovative ways to display information and evidence on specific topics for its users, in order to support research, teaching, clinical practice and decision making. Windows of Knowledge  are VHL resources that aim to give visibility and access to the main documents and other information resources on priority health topics.

IPEA output available on LILACS through interoperability between systems

The inclusion of the scientific output of the Institute of Applied Economic Research (Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada – IPEA) to the LILACS database was ensured through a project using interoperability between the system that stores IPEA data and the system adopted by the LILACS Methodology of BIREME. Motivated by the success of the project, IPEA organized a seminar in March 2019 about the relevance of the use of scientific and technical evidence in health decision making.