Introduction: The puerperal period constitutes a moment of fragility, demanding qualified and holistic care from health professionals, focused on the sociocultural and family context and on the evaluation of mother-child-family care. Objective: To analyze the perception of the puerpery woman to the care provided by a Family Health Strategy team regarding her puerperium in a city in the interior of Maranhão. Met...
The National Policy for the elderly is aimed at serving the elderly population in a special way, given that they need health care in a doubled way, as they are more prone to degenerative diseases. It is noticed that a good portion of the elderly are still affected by metabolic diseases such as Diabetes Mellitus II. The prevalence of elderly people with Diabetes Mellitus II reaches 20%, about one in every five e...
With technological and intervention advances, medical services have significantly advanced, leading patients and their families to obtain new expectations, with regard to the outcome in a situation of chronic illness. However, due to sociocultural factors, health treatments are often conditioned exclusively on the hospital environment. Placing both the patient, team and family in a fragile condition when it com...