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Letter to the Editor

Gender Equity in Healthcare: An Issue of Justice or Need?

With great interest on the topic, we read the article “The Profile of the Brazilian Cardiologist – A Sample of the Members of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology”, by Faganello et al., where the professional and personal characteristics of Brazilian cardiologists are reported. The significant gender differences were highlighted in the mini-editorial “Profile of Brazilian Cardiologists: A look on Female Leadership in Cardiology and Stress – Challenges for the Next Decade” by Mesquita et al., where peculiarities such as payment and the small number of women in Cardiology are analyzed according to an intriguing point of view.

These articles resonate with the “Women’s Letter” by Oliveira et al., a document based on current objectives, which require long-term efforts and structural changes in the medical culture, especially regarding the participation of women in executive positions in medical specialty societies and healthcare-related government bodies.

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Special Article

Brazilian Society of Cardiology – The Women’s Letter

Glaucia Maria Moraes de Oliveira et al. Fátima Elizabeth Fonseca de Oliveira Negri Nadine Oliveira Clausell Maria da Consolação V. Moreira … Olga Ferreira de Souza Ariane Vieira Scarlatelli Macedo Barbara Campos Abreu Marino Carisi Anne Polanczyk Carla Janice Baister Lantieri Celi Marques-Santos Cláudia Maria Vilas Freire Deborah Christina Nercolini Fatima Cristina Monteiro Pedroti Imara Correia de Queiroz Barbosa Magaly Arrais dos Santos Maria Christiane Valéria Braga Braile Maria Sanali Moura de Oliveira Paiva Marianna Deway Andrade Dracoulakis Narriane Chaves Holanda Patricia Toscano Rocha Rolim Roberta Tavares Barreto Teixeira Sandra Mattos Sheyla Cristina Tonheiro Ferro da Silva Simone Cristina Soares Brandão Viviana de Mello Guzzo Lemke Marcelo Antônio Cartaxo Queiroga Lopes

Objective

The primary objective of this document is to stimulate improvements in women’s health conditions in Brazil, with a focus on cardiovascular disease (CVD), which is responsible for 17.5 million premature deaths yearly worldwide. This number is predicted to increase to 23 million by 2030. CVD are responsible for one third of all deaths in Brazil, with similarities between men and postmenopausal women. These data assume even greater importance when we consider that 80% of premature deaths could have been avoided by controlling four risk factors: tobacco use, inappropriate diet, physical inactivity, and harmful alcohol use.

This document further aims to create a permanent discussion group that will play a leadership role in Brazilian healthcare policies, providing administrators with an overall view of the relevance of CVD to women so that they may establish strategic actions to reduce the prevalence of risk factors and improve diagnosis and therapeutic approach, thus reducing mortality and morbidity.

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Viewpoint

Window to the Future or Door to Chaos?

Marcelo Antônio Cartaxo Queiroga Lopes et al. Gláucia Maria Moraes de Oliveira Alberto Amaral Júnior Eitel Santiago de Brito Pereira

The remarkable advance in technology has caused a new social revolution impacting all areas of knowledge, modifying traditions and practices that were consecrated centuries ago. Advances in informatics and telecommunications with practical application in various sciences are eloquent examples of such transformation.

In medicine, this progress has brought up extraordinary advances in diagnosis and therapy, since the combination of new medical technologies and efficient communication media has bequeathed us telemedicine, which has been practiced for more than two decades with great success, opening the doors for solutions such as a telematic transmission of a simple electrocardiogram to remotely performing robotic surgeries.

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Gender Equity in Healthcare: An Issue of Justice or Need?

Brazilian Society of Cardiology – The Women’s Letter

Objective

Window to the Future or Door to Chaos?

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