The aim of this study was to understand the motives that led adult women to use apetite inhibitors and to unveil, from a gender perspective, how these women related to their own bodies. It was guided by the principles of qualitative research and the ...
Book review from "What happens when we die", written by the english physician Sam Parnia. Near Death Experiences; Consciousness; Death.
INTRODUCTION: Smoking is one of the most important burden of the disease in the world, causing one out of eight deaths. To know the instruments that characterize the use of tobacco is the first step to develop reliable and comparable research to face...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the prenatal assistance in a public maternity hospital in the point of view of puerperas and health care professionals. Nineteen puerperas and six health professionals took part in the study. The puerperas answer...
Conceptions of gender, masculinity and care: a study of primary health care professionals This paper analyses conceptions of gender and masculinity among Primary Health Care professionals in four Brazilian States (PE, RJ, RN, SP). It is based on tw...
Benzodiazepine is a medication which inadequate use is reported. Indications for this drug at the healthcare services of the city of Coronel Fabriciano (Brazil) were analyzed in terms of compliance with the indications established in the literature. ...
This study aimed to evaluate a Psychosocial Care Center in the perspective of the users’ familiars. A qualitative research was carried out, based on the theoretical and methodological references of Fourth Generation Evaluation. Gathering of data wa...
The objective of this study is to analyze social representation of the workers about the Family Health Program (PSF) to check its potential and limitations in order to change the attention model. Data were obtained through semi-structured interviews...
