Abstract: Theoretical and empirical articles aiming the study of causes of avoidable mortality (CAM) due to health care published between 1975 and 2004 were reviewed. The objective was to review the concept, the age limit to be consider in these ana...
The present article is based on the “Florianopolis County Elderly Profile” (2004) obtained by means of the questionnaire Brazil Old Age Schedule (BOAS), applied to 875 elderly people. The data focused on the reading are relative to self-perceptio...
In order to demonstrate how DEA modelling can be helpful for hospital performance assessment according to the Brazilian Teaching Hospital Policy, we develop a case study with 31 general hospitals linked to brazilian Federal Universities. We consider ...
The main purpose of this study is to understand the concepts and interests concerning the transformation of the practical quotidian knowledge produced by experience into probabilistic epistemological models. The object is the argumentation and practi...
Abstract: The concept of vulnerability has been discussed in Public Health field as a potential tool for transformation in health practices because it permits an articulation between individual-collective. Understanding health as a subjectivities pro...
ABSTRACT This article relates a research made with people who live in a serodiscordance situation – characterized by the partnership between a person HIV positive and another one not – and intend to understand how they deal with this situatio...
The aim of the present study was monthly evaluation of fluoride levels in the public water supply in Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Lages was divided into 10 geographic regions. Water samples were collected from october 2004 to september 2005. Two sa...
Abstrat This article deals with health and use of the drugs’ prevention promotion , revising boardings, conceptualizations without specifying its classification are allowed or illicit they. It has as objective to describe the use of drugs’ prev...
