As an alternative to assistance in public health, appear in Brazil the private plans. This segment suffered great intensification in the seventies and eighties, culminating in the entry of large insurers in the scenario of supplementary medicine. Qui...
Homicides are the main cause of non-natural death in Brazil and studies about them may contribute to their control. The objective of this study was to verify mortality rates due to homicides and legal interventions among young men in the State of Par...
The present work glimpses a historical briefing of the plans of health in Brazil examining the interface between the public and the private one. It carries through, still, an analysis of the evolution and regulation of the suplemental health defining...
Aiming to investigate prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in the population of the Eastern Region of Goiania, Goias, a transversal study was done involving 3.275 individuals, aged 15 years and more. Through home visits were collected data for i...
This study analyses law bills towards the sanitary control of alcohol advertisement in the mass media presented to the Brazilian Congress from 1988 to 2004. The sanitary control of this advertising is a controversial issue bringing about an ethical-p...
The antimicrobials are one of the groups of the most prescribed drugs in hospitals and which cause a great concern for the suitability of their use . The profile of the antimicrobials utilized in a private hospital in the countryside of Rio Gran...
The guided policies designed to modify the health care system occurred in three stages: the first occurred at the end of the military regimen with the implantation of the Integrated Actions of Health (AIS); the second came with the implantation of th...
ABSTRACT The article discusses the health, risks and the work of fishermen and crab catchers in region of APA Guapimirim in Guanabara Bay. The fishermen and the crab catchers are typical informal workers, they suffer from absence protection and la...
