This article focuses on the perception of nursing as a low-prestige occupation in the 19th century. The history of nursing produced by professionals in the area reinforced this conception. However, the profile of the enfermeiro-mor (head nurse) posit...
This article aims at dealing with three public health concerns of the nineteenth century in São Paulo to demonstrate that the major legislative milestones or important epidemics of the period – treated as decisive by historiography – had little ...
Pediatric cancer survivors constitute a growing population. The disease suffered, its treatment or the occurrence of late complications may affect their health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Understanding HRQOL is a challenge due to its conceptual ...
This article presents a synchronic analysis of the diseases that were present during the emergence of COVID-19, the management and impact of lockdown; and analyses how the media narrated these phenomena in working-class neighborhoods of the Metropoli...
Objective: to identify the profile of police officers (PO) operated on as a result of gunshot wounds to the face, the anatomical distribution of the injuries and to know the repercussions on the health, work and family relationships of the PO. Method...
Objective: To translate and adapt the tool “Is research working for you? A self-assessment tool and discussion guide for health services management and policy organization ”, which self-assesses the institutional capacity of Health organizations ...
An increase in child malformations in 2015 in Brazil is associated with a Zika virus spread months earlier, leaving disputes that still echoes. Using elementsa sociology field dedicated to scientific controversies mapping, we have conducted 15 semi-s...
This study aimed to evaluate the work context and the human cost at work among Community Health Workers (CHW). This is a cross-sectional, census study, using a socioeconomic questionnaire, the Work Context Assessment Scale (WCAS) and the Human Cost a...
