The community health worker (CHW) is a link between professionals in the Family Health Strategy (FHS) and the community. This study aimed to analyze healthcare personnel’s and managers’ perceptions of the role of the CHW in caring for frail elder...
Thinking about the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic implies the study of general and unique dimensions for the historical evolution of Latin America and the Caribbean. From the individual to the collective,biomedical sciences to social sciences and collective hea...
This article aims to present and analyze the institutional governance profile of the 434 regional intergovernmental commissions operating in 25 states of the Brazilian Federation. The data comethe National Survey of Regional Interagency Commissions -...
The paper aims to compare practices of care in healthy newborns at the time of birth inpublic and mixed hospitals of the unified health system (SUS), according to the type of birth, in “Birth in Brazil-2011” (BB) study and in the last cycle of th...
Objective: To evaluate the conformity between medicine package s (MPI) and evidence-based bibliographic sources regarding the presence of contraindications for contraceptives and anti-infective agents use during breastfeeding.Methods:Contraceptive a...
The association among alcohol consumption by students with family conflicts, parental supervision and quality of relationships was investigated. Cross-sectional study carried out with 1,265 adolescents21 schools. The Brazilian version of the Drug Use...
The article aims to identify sociodemographic and care characteristics of dependent elderly, formal and family caregivers in municipalities in different Brazilian regions. A cross-sectional study was carried out with a sample of 175 people, with 64 e...
This text describes and discusses policies of long term care offered to dependent elderly people. The objective is to analyze the content and strategies that guide the formulation of the so-called “dependency policies” in some European states, se...
