The development of the National Association of Worker’s Whole Health Care (Renast) in 2002 gave rise to and increased the quantity of Worker’s Health Reference Centers (Cerest) in Brazil. In Norte Fluminense Region, Cerest was opened in 2006 and ...
Life quality can be understood as the subjects’ perception of their status in society, permeated by culture, values and everyday life and with a view to their life aims and expectations as well as the ways of thinking about their life. This study a...
The HIV/AIDS during the childhood is a social issue and its understanding goes far beyond from what the health sector may concern. The normative, political, institutional and service sector responses have particularities related to the childhood. The...
This article brings you some reflections on drug policy in Brazil since the early moments of the fight against HIV / AIDS among injecting drug users. In the first two chapters, taking as its starting point the needle exchange programs (SEPs), the aut...
The aim of this study was to investigate the association between social network, social support and feeding practices of infants in their fourth month of age. This is cross-sectional study among 294 children selected at 4 Primary Health Care Units in...
Objectives: Review the legal features of off-label prescription in Brasil comparing with the North-American regulatory environment, in order to verify whether or not it derives from the structure of the administrative rule-making process as it curren...
Purpose: To verify the prevalence of self-reported health as regular/bad and the factors associated to this outcome. Methods: A cross-sectional, population based study was carried out in Pelotas. The sample size comprised 820 adolescents, 2715 adult...
The paper discusses the results of a study on user ´s satisfaction in three health care facilities at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. The analysis is based on the concepts of ‘user´s satisfaction’ and ‘responsiveness’. Perceptions and opinions of ...
