AMEP – Associação Mineira de Saúde Colectiva (Collective Health Mining Association) was created with the name Epidemiology Mining Association in 1999, in Belo Horizonte, initially by professionals from the teaching, service and research sectors that act in the area of Epidemiology and public Health.  Since its foundation, AMEP has sought to conquer space to exercise critical and permanent reflection, with the goal of contributing to the development of Collective Health.

The axis of the V COMESP, organized by AMEP, dates back to the annual report of the World Health Organization’s (Organização Mundial de Saúde – OMS) entitled "Primary Health Care – now more than ever", in which the need to adopt basic attention to health and to fight imbalances and inequalities, both in poor and in rich countries, was emphasized.

During the congress, relevant themes of collective health will be debated by international guests from Spain, Argentina, Portugal and the United States, on the World and Brazilian scene.

Dr. Luis Gonçalves, coordinator of the Screening Programme for the Region of Alentejo and responsible for the same region’s teleMedicine border project, will be present from Portugal.  He will be responsible for the presentation of two innovative projects in the area of teleMedicine and Screening in the Alentejo.

First Solutions’ technological platform (SiiTE) underlies the teleMedicine project.  The solution consists of endowing five hospitals and twelve Health Centres, from the Alentejo Region, with teleMedicine/teleDiagnostics systems, working in an integrated and articulated manner with the already existing information systems (HIS).  The specialties currently covered are Cardiology, Dermatology, general Surgery, Paediatric Surgery, Physiatry, Neurology, Orthopaedics, Pulmonology and Radiology.

In this region, screening for cervical cancer and diabetic retinopathy are also implemented.
The screening is sustained by First Solutions technological platform, SiiMA Rastreios, which allows for the management of the entire screening circuit, from the call-up for testing until the treatment.