The article analyzes the proposal of change in the Continuous Welfare Benefit (BPC) under discussion in the scope of Brazilian social security reform between 2016-2017. The proposed changes focus on two aspects: Increase in the minimum age of access ...
This paper discusses the legitimating and non legitimating about long duration illness and experiences which are not considered disease by the medical diagnoses, as chronic fatigue, chronic and “high pression”. It uses ed international and nation...
The profile of pediatric care has gone through changes in Brazil and in the world. This process becomes more visible in surveys that deal with hospital admission or specialized outpatient care data. This fact leads us to the idea that it is in such s...
The Brazilian Federal Constitution of 1988 introduced the Continuous Provision Benefit (PBC) allowing the inclusion of people with disabilities. A descriptive study was conducted with aggregated municipal data about the temporal and geographic distri...
The article seeks to describe the historical evolution and profile of applicants for the Benefit of Continued Provision of Social Assistance - BPC, intended for poor elderly and people with disabilities, which uses, since 2009, eligibility criteria b...
This research discusses a cross sectional study in interface with the extension in 22 public schools in Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil, which makes up 605 adolescents between 13 and 18, with the aim of analyzing the vaccination situation of adole...
The short story “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” (1886), Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) provides key elements for a reflection on the meaning of long term illnesses. Based on Tolstoy’s short story the present paper analyzes the multiple dimensions of the pr...
The 1988 Constitution approved the Continuous Cash Benefit (BPC) directed to elders and disabled persons with a per capita income of 25% of the minimum wage. In 2015, around 4 million people received this benefit. The design of BPC for disabled pers...
