INTRODUCTION: In Brazil, 16 of 90 million workers perform their work activities in rural areas, which is the country's economy closely associated with rural production. However, health care provided to rural areas is less than that offered to the urban population. The diseases that affect these populations are similar, but, there is higher mortality in the rural environment. PURPOSE: This study aimed to identif...
Aim: to analyze the indicators of hospital admission and mortality due to diabetes mellitus, considering the 28th Health Area of the state of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). Methods: a retrospective and descriptive study of the epidemiological indicators available on the website of the State Health Secretariat. In the period of 2015 and 2016, the reported cases of hospitalization and death of individuals resulting ...
Objetivo: descrever as ações de promoção da saúde (PS) no ambiente escolar e as dificuldades que permeiam estas ações. Método: trata-se de uma revisão bibliográfica de caráter descritivo em publicações disponíveis na literatura científica sobre o tema, sem restrição de data. Utilizou-se pesquisa em sistemas de busca na internet, como o a Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde, com fontes indexadas nas bases de dados SciEL...
Objetivo: identificar motivos que levam indivíduos sadios a buscar, pela primeira vez, métodos cirúrgicos para modificação corporal. Métodos: estudo descritivo e exploratório de cunho qualitativo. Os dados foram coletados através de entrevistas semiestruturadas, que foram gravadas. As entrevistas foram realizadas com oito mulheres e resultaram em quatro categorias analíticas. Resultados: os motivos que levam in...
Objective: to identify reasons which lead healthy subjects to search, for the first time, surgical methods for corporal modifications. Methods: it is a descriptive, exploratory and qualitative study. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews which were recorded. The interviews were made with eight women and resulted into four analytic categories. Results: the reasons which took healthy subjects to ...
Objective: to identify reasons which lead healthy subjects to search, for the first time, surgical methods for corporal modifications. Methods: it is a descriptive, exploratory and qualitative study. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews which were recorded. The interviews were made with eight women and resulted into four analytic categories. Results: the reasons which took healthy subjects to ...