The aim of this article is to discuss the concept of health, understanding it as multiple, plural. We adopt Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical thought as an analytical tool, allowing us to reach a typology involving large and small health. While t...
This work has evaluated the face and concurrent validity of the MacArthur scales which aim to capture the subjective social status within the society, community and work contexts. A sample of 159 adults, participants of the ELSA-Brasil cohort in Mina...
The article comprises a narrative review of the scientific literature, aiming to identify and discuss the contexts of vulnerability and social exclusion faced by crack cocaine and other substances users, living on the margins of social norms in the B...
Objective: Evaluate the prevalence of self-reported hypertension in adults 20-59, identify factors associated with the use of health services and disease control practices, according possession or not of health plan services. Method: Population-based...
This work is a conceptual theoretical study to think about disability and some basic concepts that are managed for the characterization of it. The paper aims to broaden perspectives on disability removing it from a description that reduce it to the d...
ABSTRACT. Objective: To analyze the trend of morbidity and mortalityfalls in the elderly in Brazil1996 to 2012. Methods: ecological study of the trend of hospitalization and mortality rates for falls in the elderly by sex, by Brazilian regions and st...
The presence of a disabled person causes changes in the family that require each member, a redefinition of their roles. The sibling as all the other members, undergoes frustration, acceptance, guilt and changing processes. In this sense, it aimed to;...
Generally, studies concerning the medical file are restricted to the analysis of documents. Its activities achieve little expressiveness beyond the theories of scientific management, making it difficult to realize that care production may occur durin...
