This study reports elderly caregivers’ perception who in charge of giving assistance to three benefiting institutions in elderly care, in the city of Araçatuba, Brazil. Questions were approached in relation to aging, caregivers’ personal motivat...
Because worldwide more than half of the Earth’s inhabitants are living in urban areas, the world is becoming more and more urban. This review article explores the ramifications of urban transformation, offering an overview on how cities take shape ...
In Brazil, the cervical uterine cancer is one of the most important public health problems showing high lethality rate among women of different age groups. The cytopathologyc examination was recommended as a prevention of this type of cancer, and sho...
This study aimed to analyze the self-reported eating practices of pregnant and postpartum women living in a group of slum communities in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The interpretative methodology used a semi-structured interview and thematic ...
This study deals with violence against women as a health care matter. It was part of a research in public services of Sao Paulo, including: the prevalence of violence among users from 15 to 49 years old; the study of their medical records; the descri...
This paper approaches in a critical way aspects of Brazilian public policies for drugs,emphasizing those classified as high cost and for rare diseases.The lysosomal storage diseases were the example because of their rarity and the international trend...
In 1955 a population explosion of the slug Sarasinula linguaeformis (Semper, 1885) damaged crop plantations in the municipalities of Nova Itaberaba and Planalto Alegre, western Santa Catarina State, Brazil. In this article we analyze the socioeconomi...
This papers’ objective is to examine the Brazilian Ministry of Health’s investments in Health Research and Development (R&D/H) between 2000-2002, trying to contrast them with the items of the National Health Research Priority Agenda, trying to at...
