ABSTRACT In 2002, Santa Isabel do Ivaí, Brazil, was the focus of sanitary investigations due to a toxoplasmosis epidemic. Four hundred and twenty six individuals had serology suggestive of acute T. gondii infection (IgM reactor), considered the lar...
The social global movements of health marked the decade of 90. The debate on global health is a constituent part of this article aiming understand the new social struggles in the field of public health. The training of social movements that act as a ...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate which antropometric indicator exerts greater relation with the metabolic abnormalities in participants of a life change program. Based on an exploratory, transversal and analytical design, this survey Methods...
With the objective to describe the pregnant teenager’s perceptions in relation to the social support taken during the gestational phase, it realized this descriptive-exploratory study with qualitative approach. Twelve pregnant teenagers participate...
Abstract The article results from qualitative research on the perception of health of the Guarany Mbyá ethny held in 3 villages of South Brazil. The cultural characteristics of the etny were surveyed in the litterature, observed in fieldwo...
Researching the users’ satisfaction is a key task for management. From the Project for Strengthening the Evaluation Capacity of the State, the Pernambuco Health Secretariat has defined to evaluate the health system performance as priority. The curr...
This work had as objective to describe the alterations revealed in the decurrent buccal structures of the aging and to verify, through the national scientific production, with emphasis in the Southeastern region, the prevalent buccal problems in the ...
Summary The current study aims to show the individual and familiar changes in health patterns suffered by indigenous communities which were displaced from their Andean communities to Ayacucho city, Peru, for war-related political reasons, during th...
