The use of alcohol and other drugs have always been present in the history of humanity, in different ways and in several contexts without bringing, firstly damages to the health. The Damage Reduction Policy is constituted ...

Infant motor development can be influenced by biological and environmental factors. The vertical exposure to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is among the biological factors. The environmental factors are those provided ...

Due to the indispensability of the practices of health professionals to respond to the demands of the Unified Health System, the Multiprofessional Health Residency Programs were created. These programs aim at the training ...

It`s a qualitative descriptive field research performed with 11 labor ward nurses in a teaching hospital. The question that guided this study was: What is the knowledge and the practices of the nurses about user embracement ...

With the institutionalization of the right to health for all citizens, resulting from the promulgation of the Federal Constitution in 1988, which establishes the constitutional principles guiding the Unified Health System, ...

The puerperal stage when experienced by a teenager can be intensified since the puerperal phase as well as the adolescence involves a period of physical, socio-cultural and body changes. Thus, it's very important to provide ...

Dengue can now be considered one of the main problems of Brazilian public health. The World Health Organization estimates that between 50 and 100 million people will become infected annually in more than 100 countries. In ...

From the HIV infection pregnant women and puerperas need specialized clinical follow-up, besides paying attention to their demands in the social dimension. The latter can be evaluated by the set of socio-environmental ...

Nowadays, it is known that the issues involving health have a relation with several determinants. Among them, the environment is present, because it is where life develops. Therefore, the relation health and environment ...

Nursing workers, especially those working in a hospital environment, are exposed daily to biological risks due to frequent contact with blood, secretions and other organic fluids. It is necessary that these workers adopt ...