AIMS: to analyze the kind of information that the Brazilian “written media” has published about drugs. METHODOLOGY: it was researched articles about drugs in a national circulation magazine between 1999 and 2003, through a Analysis of Content. RE...
Objective: to evaluate the number of sexual partners in the last twelve months and the use of condom in the last three sexual relations of adolescents aged between 15 and 18 years old. Method: Cross-sectional study with 960 adolescents. Two dichot...
Abstract In this article we discuss the development of co-incineration of hazardous waste in cement kilns in Brazil, as well as, its impacts on health and the environment. Information was gathered through an extensive review on social and environmen...
The study was carried out to describe the deliveries structural conditions, characteristics of assistance to the deliveries and cesarean section rate and to verify the association with socioeconomic variables between and the type of childbirth. A cr...
Abstract Objective: To describe the utensils used throughout history to feed non breastfed infants. Methods: Review article. Reference search was carried out on the MEDLINE, LILACS and SciELO databases from 1966 to 2007. Documental analysis was base...
Since the Unified Health System – SUS creation, the managers have been expended efforts for the planning quarrel and, made attempts to institutionalize it, considering that it’s a mangement basic component. However, despite advances obtained, th...
The aim of this study was to evaluate if fluoride pollution found in 1996 in Cubatão, SP, Brazil, using the vegetation as biomarker, changed in the last ten years. Leaves of Terminalia cattappa located at the industrial area around the industries of...
Musculoskeletal pain and functionality are linked to the health of individuals and, thus, influence the mode of interaction between individuals and between them and the environment that surrounds them. However, there are not many studies that questio...
