Objective: to select, evaluate and interpret critically the bibliographic production focused on the stress experienced by parents / caregivers of children with cerebral palsy. Method: an integrative literature review. Sources for this search were the...
The objective of this qualitative study, carried out in two maternity-hospitals in Salvador da Bahia, was to investigate health professionals’ and particularly obstetricians-gynecologists’ experience and representations of legal abortion, examine...
Research on the capacity of decentralized management of epidemiological surveillance in the state of Bahia, Brazil, in three dimensions: operational, organizational and sustainability. The quantitative approach is used in the construction of a baseli...
Aiming to analyze the perceptions of Police officers about their professional identity as well as about the institution they belong and their opinion concerning the image the society has on their performance, the data presented springs from a survey ...
This paper presents a qualitative analysis of data from two focus groups with twenty workers of Centers for Psychosocial Care (CAPS I) in southern of Brazil in 2009. They were invited to talk about overload and dissatisfaction at work in general and ...
From a set of in-depth interviews, we gathered a significant ethnographic material on the concrete and symbolic paths taken by young women and their partners in search of a solution to unplanned pregnancy. Inequities in Brazilian society are expresse...
Mental retardation (MR) is a definition which comprises a series of conditions whose common feature is an intellectual handicap that develops before the age of 18, afflicting 2-3% of the world’s population. The classification of MR into different c...
With the aim of identifying the impact of macro-political measures placed into practice in the second half of the 1990s on the growth in public expenditures on health and the possible reduction in allocation inequity, a descriptive, quantitative, cro...
