Abstract This participatory research aimed to evaluate behavioral changes in fifteen parents of pre-school children to prevent the risk factors of arterial hypertension, applying a health education technology that is based on the Health Beliefs M...
Introduction: tobacco consumption has been pointed as an epidemic and the prevention to the smoking habit is indicated as high priority for public health of the nations. Objectives/Materials and Methods: This is an observational cross-sectional study...
The comprehension of what dietary modernity represents, a subject discussed in this article though extensive literature revision, is an example of the contribution that sociology and anthropology can offer to the nutrition studies. The presence of th...
This is an observational, follow up study in order to characterize the patients profile in waiting list to kidney transplantation between 01/01/2000 and 12/31/2004 in Belo Horizonte/MG and their outcome in 12/31/2005. Sociodemographic and clinical ch...
ABSTRACT A cross-sectional study carried out the last semester of 2004 through a household survey with 292 elders in a Southern Brazil city, selected through a probabilistic sampling. The objectives were: to describe elders primary health care serv...
Among the activities developed by the community health agent (CHA), the educational actions are of fundamental importance for the production of health care. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to evaluate those aspects in a randomly sam...
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to report on the use of art and its segments as a resource for inclusion of the children with special needs in dentistry. Methods: Application of the Art in social therapy activities and workshops, divided in...
Introduction: The aging process is a product of the cultural, political, socio-economic and sanitary conditions in which the individual or social group is REPLACEed. Social support systems are essential to meeting the specific needs of the elderly. ...
