This article aims to analyze and describe the risk factors and determinants linked to 24 suicides occurred in the city of Palmas (TO) between 2006 and 2009. The psychological and psychosocial autopsy method was used in order to investigate the cons...
This research is based on epidemiological records on occurrences of individual records and pesticide poisoning toxicological investigation at thePoison Control Center in Regional University Hospital of Maringá. The intoxication in patients in...
Background: Low birth weight (LBW) is a risk factor for morbidity, infant and child mortality. In Brazil the highest percentages of low birth weight occurs in regions of better socio-economic status. Objective: to know the spatial distribution of low...
Urban violence is a topic widely discussed in different sectors of society, either by its reflection on indicators of public health, influence in everyday life of individuals or the presence of casualties in health services. This study compares diffe...
The study estimated the cost of illness attributable to environmental factors in the city of Manaus, between the years 1998 to 2009. The causes of hospitalization were grouped based on studies of the Global Burden of Disease and Comparative Risk Asse...
This article analyzes the configuration of the active civil work force of the central state during Fernando Henrique Cardoso - FHC - (1995-2002) and Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva - Lula - (2003-2010) mandates. The article associates the condition of the...
The paper deals with the issue of the transformation of the worlds of work, focusing the healthcare sector, from the ergological perspective, whose object of reflection and analysis are the human activities. At first we seek to show the transformatio...
