The situation of caregivers and family caregivers of dependent elderly people is presented and discussed, highlighting their dedication, problems and possible referrals to value them. It is known that the task of caring is eminently feminine, invisib...
The book presentes a series of articles contextualized with the way of life of farmers affected by exposure to pesticides, in the countryside and in the city, both by the work process in the consumption of contaminated food, and by exposure to dengue...
The purpose of this research was to investigate the body in old age and its relationships with falls. It was based on the assumption that the body is a historical, social and cultural construction, and that the idea of old age has been replaced by th...
The objective is to describe the construction and validation of the logical model and the matrix of criteria for assessing assistance to people with mental disorders in conflict with the law. This is a methodological research, carried outFebruary to ...
The community health worker (CHW) is a link between professionals in the Family Health Strategy (FHS) and the community. This study aimed to analyze healthcare personnel’s and managers’ perceptions of the role of the CHW in caring for frail elder...
Thinking about the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic implies the study of general and unique dimensions for the historical evolution of Latin America and the Caribbean. From the individual to the collective,biomedical sciences to social sciences and collective hea...
This article aims to present and analyze the institutional governance profile of the 434 regional intergovernmental commissions operating in 25 states of the Brazilian Federation. The data comethe National Survey of Regional Interagency Commissions -...
The paper aims to compare practices of care in healthy newborns at the time of birth inpublic and mixed hospitals of the unified health system (SUS), according to the type of birth, in “Birth in Brazil-2011” (BB) study and in the last cycle of th...
