São José do Rio Preto reached the World Health Organization goal eliminating leprosy as a Public Health problem in the year 2006, with a prevalence of 0,79/10.000 inhabitants. In order to warrant reliable information to promote management measures ...
Abstract: The present paper deals with the construction of health interfederate nets, composed by each federate organization that in conjunction with each other will manage nationwide the Single Health System in a shared and coordinated way. It also ...
The aim of this study was to translate the Child Perceptions Questionnaire (CPQ8-10), related to quality of life and oral health, into Portuguese language and to make necessary cultural adaptations for use in the Brazilian children population. The in...
Abstract: This article has as objective to after analyze the impact of well-being provoked in the life of the disabled people the access to Cash Benefit to Disabled People (BPC). The BPC is a benefit of the social assistance and consists of the uncon...
Objective: to determine prevalences of iron and vitamin A deficiencies among children and adolescents followed by a Family Health Strategy team in Itajaí-SC, and to assess relations between iron status and serum retinol. Methods: A nutritional cens...
ABSTRACT In some Latin America countries the development of Poison Control Centers Networks is similar to the one achieved in the developed world; thus, in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile or Cuba, acute poisonings are managed by well trained pro...
This study evaluated the self-perception of oral health condition of the institutionalized and not institutionalized elder population using a oral examination and three part questionnaire: demographic data, general health and the GOHAI index. A total...
Objective: Understanding the meaning of the teenagers’ experience of having ED’s (eating disorders), underscoring the aspects related to eating, from a phenomenological perspective. Method: 7 female teenagers with ED’s were interviewed, being t...
