Health conditions of workers in the primary health care network are still little studied in Brazil. The aim of this study was to describe the pattern of self-reported morbidity by workers in Family Health Teams (FHT) in the northeast macro-region of ...
Objective: To evaluate the association of iron, vitamin A and zinc deficiencies on linear growth retardation. Methods: A systematic review of electronic databases in PubMed, LILACS and SciELO. There were selected scientific papers published between J...
It is a population-based cross-sectional study that evaluated the frequency of dairy products intake according to demographic and socioeconomic characteristics by adults and elderly in Pelotas (RS). Frequency of dairy products intake was obtained by...
The goal of the work is to identify the factors that influence the consumer‘s decision when buying medicine. Prior to the Generics Bill (Lei dos Genéricos), consumers had at their disposal two ways for purchasing the product in the private mar...
Objective: To describe the magnitude and distribution of mortality by homicides in the Americas and to analyze trends. Methods: We analyzed deaths by homicides (X85 to Y09 and Y35) from 32 countries of the Region of the Americas, from 1999 to 2009,...
The National Policy of Comprehensive Care in Clinical Genetics defends that families and individuals with genetic disorders must receive continuous assistance at the Primary Health Care (PHC). In this study, we investigate the social representation o...
For groups of women devotees of other ways of giving birth than cesarean section and technocratic model of the hospital, the pain of labor seems to operate in another record, not the disorder and something to be avoided. Willing to "feel the birth," ...
