The aging of the population generates interest of health professionals, because of its importance for health. A cross-sectional study was carried out including institutionalized subjects aged 65 years or more from Pelotas, Brazil. The aim was to inve...
Adolescence is a period in human development characterized by important and deep biological, psychological and social modifications in which take part all of its familiar and social environment. This stage, in which one can count on good investment o...
Objective: This study assessed the association between environmental factors and the prevalence of overweight and obesity in public schools. Method: It was studied 480 students, through anthropometric measurements evaluation, weight and height – BM...
The health education is a powerful tool that enhances social, economic and cultural contexts of the community, allies to the process of health promotion. The purpose of this study was to find the perception of nurses, tied to the Family Health Strate...
One of the largest challenges of the Universities, especially the public ones, is to transpose the scientific knowledge produced into their walls for the population in general. The no formal education is an important tool, and yet little used by the ...
This article shows how many managed care organisations operating in the Greater São Paulo have been performing audits of the quality of their health care services, professionals, and criteria are being employed for doing so. Because of the legislati...
To determine calibration factors of the Adolescent Food Frequency Questionnaire (AFFQ), 74 boys and girls from Piracicaba (SP) with ages ranging from 10 to 14 years old took part in the study. Dietary intake (assessed by food frequency questionnaire ...
The Family Health Strategy has as its main purpose to reorganize the practice of attention to health in new bases and to substitute the traditional model existing in Brazil. The new curriculum guidelines to graduate health professionals propose the g...
