Objective: To assess the influence of oral health in the daily routine of both institutionalized and non- institutionalized aged people living in the city of Recife-PE, as well as to come to conclusions concerning the relevance level of oral health i...
Empirical evidences have pointed out the relevant role of breastfeeding to diminish infantile mortality. Children-friendly Hospitals (IHAC) is a worldwide action developed by the United Nations Children’s Fund – UNICEF – and by the World Health...
Despite the emphasis of the territorial logic and in the first level of the public health services network, the users of this health system come demonstrating a persistent preference by emergency health services. In order to try to understand this be...
Inflammatory Bowel Disease is an umbrella term used to describe Crohn´s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis. Both diseases are correlated but exhibited distinct clinical aspects. Epidemiological studies was conducted in order to describe the knowledge pr...
Objective: To evaluate the workshops of “accepting the patient” for dentists and of self-care for bearers of chronic Periodontitis. Methods: The patients attended at the Periodontics clinics of graduation and post-graduation Dentistry courses and...
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...
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...
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 ...
