The article aims to discuss transsexuality in the context of the politics of public health in Brazil. For this, at a first moment, it questions the necessity of the diagnosis of Gender Identity Disorder as a condition of access to the treatment in th...
This study discusses the creation of a new child palliative care program based on the Saúde da Família (Family Health Program), considering the level of care at home and yielding to family requests. The study focused eighteen members of nine famili...
This is an article in which we discuss the concept of the care according to the perspective of the philosophy, join it with the practice of the nurse, who appropriates himself of this concept to substantiate his professional practice. We defend that ...
This study examines the zoo therapeutic system of an Afro Brazilian population that live in the state of Bahia’s Chapada Diamantina, Brazil. The research spanned an eight-year period. The methodology consisted of open- and semi-structured interview...
This is a descriptive study, within the quantitative approach, aiming to know the domestic practice of Mother Kangaroo Method. The data was collected from a survey application at the parents of prematures increase developed in a University Hospital i...
In this article, we will discuss some aspects of the construction of the meanings concerning to the body from the scientific speech which was built with the modern thinking which changed to be the hegemonic thinking for some sectors of the medical ar...
This study aimed to identify determinants of health in workers in plastic industries. Production organization, machinery from maintenance and productive areas, and workers' characteristics of 14 plastic industries from Greater Salvador, State of Bahi...
Contrary to expectations concerning the eradication of infectious diseases, it has been emerged, worldwide, diseases that were unknown to science or considered to be eradicated or under control by epidemiological surveillance services. In this paper ...
