The aim of this cross-sectional study was to assess a possible association between contact with pesticides and prevalence of chronic diseases in a rural population from the south of Brazil. Three municipalities were randomly chosen. The sample select...
Objective: To show the effect of the Ai Chi Method, as alternative form of hydrotherapeutic boarding in carrying patients of the Fibromyalgia Syndrome Method: One studied 10 patients, 4 had been part of the experiment group and 5 of the control grou...
ABSTRACT: These theoretical reflections are based on a critical assessment of practices which include the patient’s family participation in the treatment of the individual in health services. The objective is to question the health work organizatio...
The genetic couseling has the purpose to guide the people on the taking of decisions conscientious and balanced regarding the procreation, helping them to understand it as the hereditary succession can contribute for the occurrence or risk of recurre...
This cross sectional study aimed at the determination of the prevalence of the knowledge about the adherence to the tuberculosis treatment that clients suffering of pulmonary tuberculosis and their families have concerning this disease and associated...
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 ...
