In this article we discuss chronic illness and its effects in childhood. We discuss the experiences the development of play settings in hospitals as a strategy to affirm the citizen status of children and their freedom to make choices and question va...
The research has as main objective, to analyze universitary young men’s narratives about the sexual initiation experience. The theoric-conceptual used as reference was the scripts or sexual itinerary that are characterized as social apprenticeship,...
This epidemiological-descriptive study aimed to describe the temporal evolution of dengue cases in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, between 1994 and 2003, according to month of occurrence and gender. Data were obtained from the compulsory notification fo...
The kind of assistance to patients with advanced and terminally illnesses has been under intense debate in specialized literature. This paper describes and analyzes, from bibliographic review, the practices of interventions at the end-of- life, with...
Objective: To determine the frequency and severity of dental fluorosis, as well as to verify possible associations with dental caries, gender, age, ethnos and geographic location of schools in 12-year-old schoolchildren and age varying from 15 to 19 ...
This study evaluated health education, and particularly popular health education, as a methodological approach used in the Brazilian basic healthcare network and in the Family Health Strategy (Estratégia Saúde da Família), a family health program ...
The inadequate management of health services waste daily produced, added to the meaningful increase of its production, has been aggravating the risks to the population health. Each one responsible for an institution causing this waste should put into...
This work aims to study the management of residues of a controlled-use medicine. The diazepam, for its importance in therapeutics and large use, beyond its controlled use by the Sanitary Vigilance, was the chosen medicine for this study. It was obser...
