Abstract: (1) Background: Obstetric violence has been highlighted in the political and social agenda of several countries. Efforts have been made to create policies to humanize obstetric care, guarantee the rights of pregnant women and respond to this form of violence. The lack of consensus on the appropriate terminology to name and define the behaviours that constitute obstetric violence, hinders this process. ...
Educational failure is a handicap that can influence a person's development and constitutes a potential factor of social exclusion. Therefore, it is relevant to implement and evaluate projects, designed at school level, which must be based on principles of pedagogical and evaluative differentiation and which aim to promote school success and inclusion. In this sense, an investigation was conceived to proceed to...
Objetivo: Analisar na literatura publicada, entre janeiro de 2007 e fevereiro de 2016, as evidências científicas sobre os benefícios da liberdade de movimentos e posições no primeiro estádio do trabalho de parto. Métodos: Revisão da literatura com artigos pesquisados em bases de dados selecionadas, nas plataformas b-On e EBSCOhost, através dos descritores em língua inglesa: first stage of labour/labor, ambulati...
Health Centres are 'organizations-alive' and any approach that situated as 'organizations-machines' in which everything takes place according to a predictable and linear causality, is doomed to failure. In this article, the health centers are designed as learning organizations - organizations in which learning is a characteristic nuclear, which systematically promotes learning and development individual, collec...
Entrevista com Ana Ferrão, Philip Cabau, Mário Caeiro, Ivan Barroso, Carla Nunes e Cilene Gomes, realizada em 19 de Maio de 2006 no programa da Rádio Comercial ‘‘À hora do lobo, rúbrica: A fala da tribo’’.
The authors describe a case of central pontine and extrapontine Myelinolysis in a man withalcoholism who presented to hospital with hiponatraemia. Central pontine Myelinolysis is ademyelination disorder and clinical manifestations include a rapidly evolving flaccid quadriplegia with inability to speak and swallow.This disorder has been seen in association withchronic alcoholism and electrolyte derangements. The...
Child health surveillance activities are designed to prevent disease, to perform early diagnosis of problems stunting growth and development and to promote childrens health. Aim: To assess the quality of medical and nursing care at the Child Health clinic of three units of the Cascais Health Center. Methods: Internal retrospective audit covering children born in 1995 bearing a Health Center registration at the...