This paper investigates factors associated with motherhood among adolescents14 to 16 years of age in Porto Alegre, Brazil. This is a case-control study with 431 adolescent mothers (cases) and 862 adolescents who had never given birth (controls). Data...
Aging is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that requires different types of public policies. In 2002, the National Council for the Rights of the Elderly (CNDI) was created as a governance structure to strengthen the guarantee of rights through ar...
This study aimed to identify the prevalence of the manifestation of Minor Psychiatric Disorders and its associated factors among 537 family caregivers of people living with psychic suffering attended at 16 Psychosocial Care Centers (CAPS) located in ...
The organized civil society has a historical role in the social responses to AIDS and in the global health governance. This article analyzes the biography of women with HIV/AIDS, members of the National Movement of Posithivas Citizens (MNCP), a natio...
This article examines two experiences of social networks developed as a space for the fortification of public health policies in the Brazilian context. Objective: to describe and analyze some possibilities of using social networks as devices linked t...
Objective: Compare level of burden, optimism and coping strategies among elderly caregivers of other elderly individuals who reside with and without children. Method: A cross-sectional study was with a sample of 301 elderly caregivers of elderly Braz...
This narrative review aims to analyze the scientific production on the Integrative and Complementary Practices (ICP) on the Unified Health System (UHS) aiming to understand the potentialities and weaknesses of the implementation process of the Nation...
Adolescence is considered a stage of good health and therefore unstudied. The objective of this study is to describe the evolution of mortality in adolescents in Uruguay and analyze the burden of disease in this stage of life through the measurement ...
