Food and nutrition are basic requirements for the promotion and protection of health. Nutritional surveillance and eating counselling are included in the scope of the national public health care system (SUS), as established in the Organic Health Law ...
Objective: To determine the prevalence and factors associated with depressive symptoms in institutionalized elderly. Methods: It is an epidemiological cross-sectional study, which participated in the survey 42 elderly in a long-stay institution for t...
The article discusses the development of a health care model for the elderly, seeking to collaborate with the discussion about the aging of the population brought by the new epidemiological and demographic reality. Considering that the aging process ...
To analyze intervention programs for physical activity (PA) is of great importance to aid progress in the area. The RE-AIM tool has been widely spread in the literature. In this sense, the present study aimed to identify intervention programs for PA ...
Substance use problems remain in the center of public concern in countries that have a common culture and a distinct recent history like Brazil and Portugal. Aims: to describe the scientific literature content about the implications for assistance ac...
This study aimed at analyzing the frequency of preterm births and at identifying their risk factors and development in one decade (2001-2005-2010) in a city in São Paulo state. It is a time-series study using datathe Live Birth Information System. U...
In Brazil, leprosy is endemic in three regions: the North, Northeast, and Mid-West. Counties with contiguous binational urban areas are characterized by a constant flow of people, goods, and services, which facilitates the transmission of diseases an...
During the decade of 1980 and 1990 and the early 2000 emerged and developed in most Latinamericans countries various proposals and actions in intercultural health. This tryed to articulate health sector and biomedicine with traditional medicine, by...
