Obesity is one of the world major epidemics, being important public health problem and it is associated with an increase of chronic diseases. Risk factors associated with lifestyle and characteristics of reproductive life can be important factors to ...
Abstract This report describes the reasons of the suicidal behavior in the adolescents, taking in this anthropologic analysis, the impact in the familiar and social context. The crew who took this effort was 12 teenagers, taken in an emergency hospit...
Sexuality and reproductive health are relevant issues for comprehensive care of people living with HIV. Public policies and health services, though, may not give these issues enough attention. The aims of this article is to understand how young peopl...
ABSTRACT Arterial hypertension is a relevant public health problem as it is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, the major cause of mortality in Brazil. Low compliance and treatment dropout are among the main hindrances to individual control ...
This article aims to evaluate the reliability of data available in the Information System for Live Birth (SINASC) in the city of Teresina, Piauí State, Brazil for the year 2002. The proportion of data completeness was analyzed, and concordance betwe...
The Science Education has been discussed in some follow society and international organizations have encouraged nations to invest in this area as strategic. In that context, education in bioethics and biosafety explores a rich content on prevention, ...
The degradation of natural resources is increasing in alarming numbers, especially water sources that is constant changes in its quality. Because of this, more and more people come using groundwater for human consumption, but the big problem is conta...
Adolescence is a period of body changes and alterations in personality in general, and especially the habits. It was aimed to evaluate the relationship between the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the DMFT index, in 207 adolescents aged 12 years old adolesc...
