Articles

0182/2012 - Reflections on excessive cesarean rates in Brazil and women empowerment (17/04/2012)
MÍRIAM RÊGO DE CASTRO LEÃO, Margareth Angelo, CAMILLA ALEXSANDRA SCHNECK, Maria Luiza Gonzalez Riesco
Artigo / Tema Livre
Publicado

The medicalization of childbirth, as an outcome of the social medicalization, has been described as a complex sociocultural process that changes experiences, suffering and pain previously managed in family or community setting into medical needs. The...

0493/2012 - Reflections on excessive cesarean rates in Brazil and women empowerment (17/04/2012)
MÍRIAM RÊGO DE CASTRO LEÃO, Margareth Angelo, CAMILLA ALEXSANDRA SCHNECK, Maria Luiza Gonzalez Riesco
Opinião
Publicado

The medicalization of childbirth, as an outcome of the social medicalization, has been described as a complex sociocultural process that changes experiences, suffering and pain previously managed in family or community setting into medical needs. The...

0432/2012 - City Academy: service of health promotion in the health care network of the Unified Health (17/04/2012)
Bruna Vieira de Lima Costa, Aline Cristine Souza Lopes, Raquel de Deus Mendonça, Luana Caroline dos Santos, Sérgio Viana Peixoto, Marília Alves
Artigo / Tema Livre
Publicado

To analyze the health and nutritional profile of users of the Unified Health System entering into a City Academy in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais during a triennium. Cross-sectional study with users> 20 years. Were collected on sociodemographic cha...

0483/2012 - Global Environmental Health and Sustainable Development: The Role at Rio+20 (16/04/2012)
Gregg L. Furie, John Balbus
Artigo Temático
Publicado

The Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development represents a crucial opportunity to place environmental health at the forefront of the sustainable development agenda. Billions of people living in low- and middle-income countries cont...

0315/2012 - The media framing of abortion at the Brazilian presidential election campaign in 2010: the exclusion of the public health debate (16/04/2012)
Maria L Andrade Fontes
Artigo Temático
Publicado

Objectives: this article presents a monitoring survey of the Brazilian media conducted in order to identify the framing of the abortion issue during the period from July 6 to October 29, 2010, which was the period of the official presidential campaig...

0388/2012 - Environmental and social vulnerability, disaster risk reduction and resilience building – lessons from disasters in Haiti and Brazil (15/04/2012)
CARLOS MACHADO DE FREITAS, José Orlando Gomes, Eduardo Fonseca Arraes, Elisa Francioli Ximenes, Mauren Lopes de Carvalho
Artigo Temático
Publicado

Data about world disasters reveals a greater gravity in countries with lower social and economical development levels. In this context, disaster risk reduction and resilience building policies are priorities in the sustainable development‘s age...

0390/2012 - Floods and Public Health – A Review of Causes, Consequences and Responses to Prevention and Mitigation (15/04/2012)
CARLOS MACHADO DE FREITAS, Elisa Francioli Ximenes
Artigo de Revisão
Publicado

Floods are among the natural disasters more frequently and affect the lives of approximately 102 million people each year, mainly in developing countries and urban areas with trends of increasing in the coming decades. The aim of this paper is to off...

0465/2012 - The legal and social consequences of maintaining the criminalization of abortion (13/04/2012)
Teresa Robichez de Carvalho Machado
Artigo Temático
Publicado