In Brazil, the development of nanotechnology drugs effective, safe and high cost / benefit are strategic for Public Health. In a scenario of insufficient information requires a sanitary regulation aimed at protecting users. It aims to identify the st...
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVES: To analyze the mother‘s intention of breastfeeding and their perspectives on introduction of complementary foods. METHODS: Cross-sectional study at the Teaching Hospital of the Federal University of Pelotas/RS/Brazil, fro...
Health surveillance (HS) is one of the key components of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS). This article describes recent changes in health surveillance funding models and the role these changes have had in the reorganization and decentraliza...
This is a study with Heidegger‘s theoretical-phenomenological approach, which aimed at understanding the meanings of the lived period by the long-lived elderly person in the process of death/dying and mourning. It was conducted in 2009, with 16 lon...
This study was conducted to evaluate if caries severity is associated with malnutrition in preschool children. The cross-sectional study was nested in a retrospective cohort of 625 children aged 24-71 months attending daycare centers in São Luís, M...
The article aims to discuss the issue of integration of mental health in primary care by matrix support in mental health. We point out the main barriers in the use of this work method, as well as the facilitating factors of the matrix support of ment...
This study aimed to evaluate the completeness of the data registered by SisHiperdia, considering it by geographic area, type of field and filling consistency between related variables. This is an observational, descriptive and transversal. The sample...
The aim of this paper is to reflect on the theoretical construction in the constitution of the sociology of health - still called in some countries as medical sociology. Two main ideas constitute the basis of this reflection: the interdisciplinarity ...
