Perícias de Saúde no Ministério Público Federal is a 71-page institutional guide I produced for the Health Services (SSI-Saúde) of the Federal Prosecution Service of Brazil (MPF). It sets out the procedures and workflows for official health expert evaluations of federal staff — from sick leave and disability retirement to family-member care leave, special work schedules for dependents with disabilities, and mental health assessments for administrative proceedings. The guide is organized into 17 chapters and three appendices: a compilation of the relevant normative texts, a glossary, and a list of sources.
The starting point was a rough outline — a first pass assembled early in the project from web and AI-assisted research, with placeholder step lists, a suggested visual identity that didn’t fit the institution, and legal citations that didn’t hold up to scrutiny. I rebuilt the guide from there: fact-checked every legal reference against the actual statutes, restructured the content, and designed the full 71-page layout in InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. ChatGPT, Perplexity, and NotebookLM supported the research along the way.
Health Expert Evaluations at the MPF (Perícias de Saúde no Ministério Público Federal)
From draft to final guide
- Restructured the content into 17 chapters and three appendices, replacing the draft’s flat, unnumbered list of topics.
- Added Chapter 17 (Lei Complementar nº 75/1993 – Estatuto do Ministério Público da União), which wasn’t in the draft.
- Folded the draft’s standalone chapter on determining a dependent’s intellectual or mental disability into the related chapters — pension evaluation and special work schedule — instead of keeping it separate.
- Fact-checked and corrected legal citations. For example, the draft grounded the integral retirement pay for a listed serious illness in Decreto nº 3.298/1999, which doesn’t cover that; the final version grounds it correctly in Lei nº 8.112/1990, Art. 186, §1º.
- Replaced the draft’s repeated, generic “Infográfico – Etapas” placeholders with fully designed, illustrated step-by-step diagrams, built specifically for each chapter’s procedure.
- Wrote and added Annex 1, a roughly 24-page compilation of the normative texts referenced throughout the guide — nonexistent in the draft.
- Wrote and added Annex 2, a glossary of institutional acronyms, systems, and technical terms — nonexistent in the draft.
- Wrote and added Annex 3, a formal list of sources, including the federal government’s own official manual on the subject (3rd edition, 2017).
- Added the front matter the draft didn’t have: a title page, credits, table of contents, presentation, and a simplified catalog record (ficha catalográfica).
- Designed the full visual identity — cover, chapter dividers, icons, typography, and color system — and laid out all 71 pages in InDesign.
Starting point: the early draft
Shown here for comparison. This is the first outline I worked from, before the legal fact-checking, the restructuring, and the design above.
Client: Federal Prosecution Service of Brazil (MPF) — SSI-Saúde
Role: Editorial Production, Content Consolidation, Graphic Design
Year: 2026
