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Title:
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THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM: A BLENDED LEARNING STRATEGY TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN BRAZIL |
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Author(s):
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Vinícius de Araújo Oliveira, Márcia Hiromi Sakai, Raphael Augusto Teixeira de Aguiar, Francisco Eduardo de Campos |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-67-0 |
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Editors:
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Piet Kommers and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2012 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Elearning, ehealth, egovernment, open access, data mining, content development |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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67 |
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Last Page:
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74 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Brazil is a large, multicultural and federalist country. It bears enormous social, economic and political differences amongst its different regions. This diversity has been the scenario of a huge health system reform that began about thirty years ago. One of the greatest challenges of the National Health System is the provision of qualified health professionals all over the country. Since 2008 the Ministry of Health has been investing in the creation of an educational system for continuing education of health workers, based on active learning using information technology as a central tool. This paper presents this system, which is called Open University of the National Health System (UNA-SUS). UNA-SUS began in 2008 and has fifty-thousand health professionals involved in its continuing educational programs, a third of which in family health specialization courses. UNA-SUS is based in three core elements: a collaborative network of public universities, an open access repository of learning resources for health (ARES) and an integrative curricular platform (Plataforma Arouca). |
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