A woman passes through an important process of body image reshaping when dealing with breast cancer. This article aims to understand the relationship breast cancer and its treatments have in the process of (re) construction of women’s body image. T...
Communicating an unfavorable diagnosis during prenatal care is a growing challenge in clinical practice, as more and more tests are being performed to screen for the main conditions affecting the pregnant woman and her fetus. The way patients receive...
This study, with a hybrid, ecological and time-tendency design, aimed to study the relation between the Adapted Living Condition Index and the spatial distribution in the occurrence of Tb in the year 2000 and to obtain the spatial correlation in case...
Health is affected throughout life by characteristics of social nature, which produce inequalities in exposures and vulnerabilities. These social determinants interfere with the well-being, functional independence and quality of life of the elderly, ...
Anemia and malnutrition, main nutritional deficiencies during childhood, are mostly related to socio-economical factors. Thus, due to represents the main politic to fight the poverty, it is expected that the Bolsa Família Program (BFP) promotes an i...
The aim of this study was to review the publications from 2001 to 2008 regarding the work of the Oral Health Team (OHT) in the Brazilian Family Health Strategy (FHS), in order to investigate the publications profile and the studies that can support t...
The paper describes a pedagogical experience with the post-graduate teaching on the discipline History and Paradigms of Health Knowledge. The experience led to the first two courses at the National School of Public Health “Sergio Arouca”, Fiocruz...
We present and debate on the Dialogy of Laughter, a concept based upon the praxis of popular health education performed with joy. Health for us is a resource for life and not a goal on life; health promotion is a positive reaction that leads to an am...
