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[Reflections about International Classification for Nursing Practice in Collective Health: heading for equity]
1Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem, Departamento de Enfermagem em Saúde Coletiva, São Paulo, SP.
Abstract:
The paper aims to discuss the way of equity can be reached by International Classification of Nursing Practice in Collective Health - CIPESC. CIPESC is a Brazilian system to classify nursing phenomena, it's used in nursing consultation in primary care. Equity in health means that everyone in the society has opportunity to improve their potential of health. CIPESC allows to know the nursing diagnoses and interventions and doing this allows knowing health needs and vulnerabilities of the social groups. Nursing interventions in the most vulnerable groups results interventions heading for equity. At the same time, it's possible to revisit work process in health aiming to better focusing nursing actions. Also it's possible to create new tools to the nursing interventions.
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