Family planning services should provide women and men with information on contraceptive methods. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of multidisciplinary contraceptive counseling lectures related to the efficacy and individual choices of contrace...
This text presents an overview of aging in Brazil and some information that supports the need to create instruments to deal with the accelerated increase of the elderly population, particularly those who lose their physical, cognitive, mental/emotion...
The objective was to analyze in the scientific literature about the ideal time to conduct home visits (HVs) to newborns (NBs), in their first week of life, and the difficulties in conducting it, due to the absence of a consensus in determining the op...
During puerperium, women experience neurobiological changes and psychosocial changes, which determine variations in cognitive functioning. In order to describe the cognitive variations that occur during postpartum and its determining factors, a narra...
The aim of this study was to investigate the association between socioeconomic, behavioral factors, general health, oral health and plaque accumulation and oral mucosa inflammation in the elderly. This cross-sectional study, conducted between 2004 an...
The aim of this study is to estimate the prevalence of depression and its associated factors in elderly residents of the rural area of Rio Grande/RS. In this cross-sectional population-based study performed with 994 elderly (≥ 60 years), whose sam...
This is a recent publication by Editora Fiocruz, which launches a social policies frameworkits genesis and development of in Brazil with a focus on health, education, social security. It shows that, despite being polysemic, the concept of social poli...
The objective of this study was to verify the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medication use (PIM) for older people living in nursing homes (NH), as well as the medications types and its associated factors. This cross-sectional study was carr...
