The decentralization of the SUS requires state health departments assume new powers as the Monitoring and Evaluation of Primary Care. This article aims to evaluate the “capacity for governance” of a State Health northeastern Brazil Department in ...
Abstract This study is proposed to describe the supply and demand of Health Services of Basic Attention in thirteen municipalities of the southern half of Rio Grande do Sul state. For analysis, secondary data were obtained from the Information Depar...
Summary: This study discusses the relations existing between the institutional aspects of a CAPS and the experience of psychotic patients. Was adopted the referential of social experience of psychosis, witch involves more than the experience of sympt...
Abstract This participatory research aimed to evaluate behavioral changes in fifteen parents of pre-school children to prevent the risk factors of arterial hypertension, applying a health education technology that is based on the Health Beliefs M...
Introduction: tobacco consumption has been pointed as an epidemic and the prevention to the smoking habit is indicated as high priority for public health of the nations. Objectives/Materials and Methods: This is an observational cross-sectional study...
The comprehension of what dietary modernity represents, a subject discussed in this article though extensive literature revision, is an example of the contribution that sociology and anthropology can offer to the nutrition studies. The presence of th...
This is an observational, follow up study in order to characterize the patients profile in waiting list to kidney transplantation between 01/01/2000 and 12/31/2004 in Belo Horizonte/MG and their outcome in 12/31/2005. Sociodemographic and clinical ch...
ABSTRACT A cross-sectional study carried out the last semester of 2004 through a household survey with 292 elders in a Southern Brazil city, selected through a probabilistic sampling. The objectives were: to describe elders primary health care serv...
