The present assay has as objective to critically analyze the current limitations of the familiar planning applied in the public health and to consider changes considering model of social sciences applied to the health and the perspective of the famil...
The present article aims at discussing the question of access to medicines as a social right, investigating how the users subscribed in the Hiperdia program realizes their access to medicines. Thus, the process of medicalization experienced by the Br...
Advertising messages for food products deserve special attention,since they indicate that the media has played a central role in shaping new habits.The food industry,seeking to serve a “new” customer segment(increasingly preoccupied with health a...
This study seeks to present a current discussion concerning psychiatric care in Brazil. It is based firmly upon a historical review of psychiatric knowledge and practices within the Brazilian context concerning the appropriation of the madness pheno...
ABSTRACT This is a qualitative study about the meaning of adequate nurturing or eating habits related to prohibitions, agreements and lactogogos matters in breastfeeding attributed by women. It was based on a social representation theory described b...
ABSTRACT: This article deals with the masculine absence and or invisibility in primary healthcare services and the consequent exclusion of men of the preventive care. The analytical frame is based on the literature that discusses care related to he...
Abstract Objective: The aim of the present study is to verify the association between the body fat distribution and breast cancer in women of Rio Grande do Sul / Brazil. Method: A case-control design was used in this study. Between January and Octob...
Objective: To evaluate the Diabetes and Hypertension records and the follow-up care by the health professionals of the 13th Regional Health Precinct teams (13th CRS). Methods: This study is descriptive-exploratory. The student T test was used to che...
