Empowerment is a process by which people gain mastery over their lives, learning knowledge to make decisions about their health. Increasingly common, chronic diseases are present in the health service, requiring the attention of health professionals ...
Objectives: To evaluate knowledge, practices and attitudes of health care workers (HCW) involved in antenatal care at public health centers (SUS) in Rio de Janeiro City (RJC) and to identify major barriers to the implementation of syphilis in pregnan...
Offering Integrative and Complementary Practices in the Health Care System is stimulated to increase the comprehensiveness of care and the access to them, but it is challenging to incorporate ICP into the health services. Our goal is to provide a met...
The understanding of medical prescription is essential for therapeutic success. In order to identify the association among prescription indicators and profile of the healthcare users with the understanding of medical prescriptions by patients attendi...
This cross-sectional study presents the rate and examines the rule of socio-demographic factors, health conditions, health system characteristics and contextual factors on cost-related medication nonadherence (CRN) among older women (age ≥...
The aim of this study is to propose and discuss the application of an Index of Prioritization in Health (PIHealth). The PIHealth is an objective criterion that shows the magnitude of problems and health determinants in planning situations. The PIHeal...
Objective: Comparison of national and international criteria for assessing the nutritional status of adolescents. Methods: it was an analytical cross-sectional study, in the period from July 2007 to January 2008, with a representative sample of Maran...
