Object: This article examines the pertinence of the concept of medicalization for socio-cultural analysis. We start from the critiques to the concept, which emerged in the 2000s. Those critiques highlight the excessive broadness of a notion that enco...
The aim of this study was to discuss data of the costs of Alzheimer‘s disease (AD) and the effectiveness of initiatives that could be mobilized in order to reduce costs and to help the family and caregivers to manage the disease. The biggest co...
Death, for it to be studied more, remains a mystery. Dealing with death is not at all easy and for that reason she scares. All fears of man are at bottom related to the fear of death. All of this because it is a mystery of which we know little or not...
This study aimed to evaluate the attributes of primary care, with a focus on child health, according to the perception of a maroon community in northern Minas Gerais, Brazil. It is cross-sectional, descriptive study with quantitative approach. We use...
This study aimed to review the literature on the methods used to assess the completeness of the data of information systems in healthcare. We searched the MEDLINE, SciELO and LILACS using the keywords "quality", "data quality", "quality of informatio...
This transversal and descriptive study sought to verify the prevalence of sucking habits in preschool children, and parents‘ perception of the relationship with the occurrence of malocclusion. The population consisted of a representative sample...
The Program for Community Health Workers was established in 1991 with the aim of contributing to improving the quality of life. The protagonists of this program are their own community health workers. Given that, this study aimed to evaluate the pres...
