The Ministry of Health through the National Policy on Integrative and Complementary Practices (PNPIC) encourages the offer of Acupuncture, Homeopathy, Herbal Medicine, Hydrotherapy and Anthroposophic Medicine in the Unified Health System (SUS). This ...
Psychiatric patients are at increased risk of adverse life events, such as being incarcerated and homelessness in their life course. Using data from a cross-sectional multicenter study of 2,475 patients selected from 26 mental health services in Braz...
Contaminated waters may offer health risks not only due to consumption, but also by recreational use. Risk analysis strategies aim to reduce the number of contaminations, and must incorporate people’s perceptions and willingness to assume risks. We...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the perception about dental services and oral health in a population of hypertensive and diabetic ascribed to the Family Health Strategy in Alfenas, MG, Brazil. This was a household, desc...
The study estimated the prevalence of serum lipids changes among adolescents and investigated its association with overweight and abdominal obesity. Methods: It was a cross-sectional study with 525 adolescents from Piracicaba (SP). Anthropometric (bo...
One of the environmental health challenges is the proposition of indicators. For this purpose, the Ministry of Health (MH),recommendations of the WHO, proposes to use the Model of Driving Force, Pressure, State, Exposure, Effect, Action (FPSEEA). Thi...
In Brazil, food and nutritional insecurity remains as a challenge to the accomplishment of the human right to adequate food. This study aimed to analyze food and nutrition insecurity situation of adolescents in the household and individual level. Cro...
Sexual and reproductive health rights were developed recently as a result from the movements held for Human Rights and citizenship. Delimitations of this subject have not been explored in Brazil yet, even though the importance of developing skills re...
