Challenges to implantation of SUS doutrinary and operative principles in great urban centers, have stimulated the developing of strategies focused on cities over 100.000 inhabitants and had raised researches on this setting . This article approaches ...
It is a premise of this paper to introduce the concept of elderly physical therapy care in the Health Family Program. Inspired by the impact attributable to the socio-demographic changes, the increase of an elderly population and for the consolidatio...
The cases of abuse against elderly people have been growing significantly troughout all the world.Among the various forms of abuse, one of the less known and denounced is the domestic neglect. As it occurs mostly inside family and nursing homes, it ...
ABSTRACT In view of seniors' high hospital costs, the present study aims at comparing the seven leading frequencies of hospital morbidity affecting seniors in 2005 and 1994, through the data on the Hospital Information System (SIH/MS). Methodo...
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the fluoride levels in public water supply in São Luís island, Maranhão, Brazil, during the month of October of 2006. An stratification sampling was applied, considering the water treatment station (06...
The Pneumonia Associated to Mechanic Ventilation (PAMV) is the more important and more common infection in critic ventilated mechanically patients in the Intensive Therapy Unity (ITUs). This quantitative research has aimed to assess the knowledge of ...
Abstract This paper aimed to know and discuss a group of parents of Down’s syndrome children reactions and feelings and the impact of the news and diagnostic. Four couples whose children received the diagnostic of Down’s syndrome participated ...
To evaluate socioeconomic conditions, nutritional status and food intake of preschool children assisted at Municipal Educational Centers (CEMs) of Alfenas, Minas Gerais, Brazil. A traverse study involving 186 children was performed. The socioeconomic...
