Objetivo: analisar a viabilidade de indicadores de qualidade para avaliação de programas hospitalares de prevenção de tuberculose ocupacional. Método: estudo descritivo transversal. Testaram-se indicadores de avaliação de programas de prevenção de tuberculose ocupacional em seis hospitais. O critério para definir a viabilidade foi o tempo necessário para aplicar os indicadores. Resultados: o tempo necessário pa...
OBJECTIVES: to analyze an instrument that aims to understand the health-disease process, its potential to identify social vulnerabilities and health needs to enable the most appropriate interventions in a given territory. Procedures: analysis of the data collection instrument - composed of closed and open questions to identify different profiles of social reproduction (ways of working and living) - used in the ...
In the beginning, Aids was predominantly seen in highly educated adult males with homosexual practices. Then, it reached a much younger group, with less access to information, heterosexuals and also women. Those infected with Aids are often worried about discrimination, which makes them keep it secret. The objective of this study was to discuss privacy and confidentiality of information related to women infecte...
This study aimed to assess whom adolescents shared information and dialogues about sexuality with. Therefore, 383 fifteen to nineteen year-old adolescents enrolled in a family health unit in the city of São Paulo (Brazil) were interviewed in 2002. Adolescents most frequently seemed to talk about sex with peers, although they lost priority according to the complexity of the theme. Thus, teachers and health profe...
Relata-se a experiência de graduandos de enfermagem num Centro de Orientação e Apoio Sorológico (COAS) para a realização do teste anti-HIV. Objetivos: descrever a experiência; identificar fatores dificultadores e facilitadores na realização do aconselhamento. As dificuldades: o preparo insuficiente para abordar aspectos sobre a sexualidade, a insegurança na tomada de condutas, o preconceito frente a diferentes ...
The authors discuss and analyze the magnitude and the evolution of the AIDS epidemic in Brazil. They evaluate how the infection has being approached in this country, taking into account the historical and social context in which it appeared and disseminated.; El trabajo dimemsiona y analiza la lendencia de la evolución de la "SIDA" en Brasil y busca comprender el modo en que se dió y su abordaje en el país, con...