Abstract: This study examines the work process of a Family Health Unity (USF), in a small municipality, inland the state of Rio de Janeiro. We start from the question of what is causing the population registered in a family health program look for th...
Abstract: In 2000, the Ministry of Health has established financial support and included Oral Health Teams in the Family Health Strategy, which is recognized as an approach to reorganize the Primary Care Services in the Brazilian Health System. The p...
The water for human consumption is the main vehicle for the transmission of pathogens that are capable to cause enteric parasitic diseases; therefore, its microbiological control is vital. The present work had the purpose to evaluate the bacteriologi...
The article introduces a discussion about the patterns of contemporary accumulation in the health care industry. The direction and significance of capitalist accumulation in health are identified as well as the characteristics of the economic environ...
In 2006, the Brazilian Ministry of Health established the Injury Surveillance System Network in Sentinel Services (Rede VIVA) to describe data on injuries victims treated at emergency departments (ED), especially the minor injuries which do not cause...
The goals of this study were to evaluate the elderly drug adhesion in an outpatient geriatric service linked to the State University Hospital of Campinas (Brazil) as well as to identify the related events to this adhesion. One hundred sixty five elde...
General health conditions as well as quality of life must urgently be improved in developing countries. This improvement could be achieved, at least in part, by the practice of citizenship. Education exerts a special role in cit...
The objective was to evaluate the use of medicines in the elderly people that live in a city in the south of Santa Catarina state. It was carried out a transverse study. 104 patients were interviewed, they were distributed in five Family Health Progr...
