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0120/2007 - Biology of aging: theories, mechanisms, and perspectives.
(28/05/2008)
ILKA NICÉIA D’AQUINO OLIVEIRA TEIXEIRA
Artigo / Tema Livre
Publicado
The article reviews the major biological theories of aging, and discusses the most relevant mechanisms to explain the aging process. It begins with the evolutionary theories, explores the molecular-cellular mechanisms, and presents the perspective of...
0757/2007 - Health Surveillance: foundations, interfaces and tendencies
(27/05/2008)
Antonio Luis Vicente Arreaza
Artigo / Tema Livre
Publicado
Abstract The present article rescues initially the forms, content and operational projection of the epidemiological surveillance as indispensable tool for the knowledge field and public health practices. After that, we verify that the health surveill...
0723/2007 - ENVIRONMENTS MEN‘S THIRD AGE
(26/05/2008)
Renato Xavier Coutinho
Artigo / Tema Livre
Publicado
The study it had as objective to verify which the carried through activities as leisure for the aged men of Santa Maria, a time was evidenced that it has a low participation of the men in the groups of third age in the city. From this, a qualitative ...
0513/2008 - Mental health care: perception of people with schizophrenia and their carers
(23/05/2008)
Luciane Carniel Wagner
Não Categorizado
Objective: To know the opinions of patients and carers (informal and formal) concerning the mental health care of individuals with long term schizophrenic disorders within different contexts and cultures. Methodology: A qualitative study with focus ...
0157/2008 - Determining of body mass index in adolescentspublic school in Piracicaba, São Paulo
(23/05/2008)
Alexandre Romero
Artigo / Tema Livre
Publicado
ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to assess determining factors of body mass index (BMI) in adolescents enrolled in public schools in Piracicaba, São Paulo. The sample had 328 adolescents from both genders; minimum age was 10 years old. We...
0318/2007 - The Self-Medication and Health Academic Staff
(21/05/2008)
Daniela Silva de Aquino
Não Categorizado
In view of the self-medication is a problem of worldwide public health, this article had as objective to evaluate the behavior of the future health professionals with regard to the drug utilization, particularly, to the self-medication practice. 223 ...
0505/2008 - The Integrative Medicine and the Construction of a New Model on Health
(20/05/2008)
Márcia Aparecida Padovan Otani
Artigo / Tema Livre
Publicado
The Integrative Medicine and the Construction of a New Model on Health Abstract Integrative Medicine (IM) is the most recent concept on the Complementary and Alternative Medicines (CAM) debate, regarding the introduction and management of new pra...
0501/2008 - De-institutionalization in mental health and caring practices in the sheltered home context
(20/05/2008)
Ana Karenina de Melo Arraes Amorim
Não Categorizado
The sheltered homes in Brazil are considered strategic and essential on the process of de-institutionalization of patients who have been interned for years in psychiatric hospitals and that lose their family and social links. However, problems and ch...
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