O diabetes é uma doença crônica que à medida que aumenta o tempo das pessoas com a doença, pode diminuir a sua qualidade de vida. Para tanto, reforça-se a necessidade das equipes de saúde estarem frente ao desenvolvimento de ações de promoção do autocuidado. O presente estudo teve como objetivo analisar a adesão as atividades de autocuidado de pessoas com diabetes atendidas nas Estratégias Saúde da Família. Est...
Introduction: The use of organophosphates is present throughout the world in agriculture, industry and even in domestic environments. Many people are exposed to these pesticides, especially the agricultural population, which is subject to their effects. Objective: to carry out a systematic literature review of articles that evaluated chronic exposure to low doses of organophosphates in rural populations. Method...
Medicinal plants synthesize various secondary metabolites that can be used for therapeutic and antimicrobial purposes. In Brazil, the Unified Health System (SUS) offers several herbal medicines as an alternative in the treatment of various diseases. Considering the importance of these plants in the production of chemicals that expand therapeutic options and improve the health of SUS use...
Background and Objectives: Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) is the metabolic disorder that causes a reduction in glucose tolerance, diagnosed during pregnancy, which may or may not continue after childbirth. In Brazil, around 7% of pregnancies are complicated by gestational hyperglycemia. The present study aimed to evaluate the epidemiological, socioeconomic, clinical and obstetric profile and to identify th...
Background and Objectives: Breast cancer is the type of cancer with the highest incidence among women in the country and surgery is the main treatment procedure, associated or not with adjuvant therapies. The aim of the present study is to assess the number and identify the epidemiological profile of women diagnosed with breast cancer who underwent modified radical mastectomy at a referral hospital, located in ...
The Scientific Initiation during the High School provides the development of scientific spirit and critical world view. The present work seeks to verify the skills developed through the work in Scientific Initiation of two high school students from a state school in the municipality of Lajeado / RS. In order to do so, the students were instructed to create and apply a script of semi-structured questions to 60 d...
Brazil is the third largest market and the eighth largest consumer of pesticidesper hectare in the world, with herbicides and insecticides accounting for 60%of the products traded in the country. The use of pesticides has increasedworldwide in the last decades, which may represent a risk for several diseasesin humans, including cancer. Although in Brazil the research on the impactof the use of pesticides on hum...
Background and objectives: Identify in the scientific productions any impact that resulted from the use of computer technology in the implementation of the Nursing Assistance Systematization (Sistematização da Assistência de Enfermagem – SAE) in hospital health services. Contents: It is characterized as an Integrative Review (IR) of the literature developed from the terms “Sistematização da assistência de enfer...
Background and Objectives: The Diabetes Mellitus is characterized by lack of insulin or pancreatic gland's inability to produce it, failing to exercise certain functions essential to the body and can impact on the quality of life of people affected by the disease. The study has as objective to know the scientific literature on the strategies that seek to promote the quality of life of people with Diabetes Melli...
Background and Objectives: Contamination of surfaces in the hospital environment may contribute to the incidence of nosocomial infections through cross contamination by health care professionals. The objective of this study was to describe, through a review of literature, the main microorganisms on surfaces and/or equipment of two areas considered critical in hospitals. Contents: A systematic literature review ...