Objective: to identify the pharmacological activities of ba-curi butter (Platonia insignis Mart.). Methods: an integra-tive review, carried out in the databases of Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, EMBASE, MEDLINE/PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library and SCOPUS, without the time and language restriction. The se-lection consi...
Objective: to describe the sociodemographic and clinical women with HELLP. Method: descriptive, quantitative approach of retrospective consists of all 52 records of women with HELLP syndrome from 2008 to 2012. Results: the sociodemographic characteristics revealed the following variables: the average age was 27.10 years; mixed race / color (65.4%); married (44.2%); Catholic (65.4%); from the interior of Piauí (...
Background and objectives: The increase in life expectancy brought in response to increase in the elderly population, especially women, therefore chronic degenerative diseases, especially cancer of the cervix. The aim of this study was to analyse the sociodemographic, clinical and treatment of elderly woman with cervical cancer registered in the database of a reference hospital in oncology to Piaui from 2008 to...
Global concern in relation to child mortality gained visibility with the release of the Millennium Development Goals in 2000 in which the reduction of child mortality is included under goal number four, which proposes to reduce the mortality rate of children under five years by two thirds between 1990 and 2015. Reducing child mortality has been a major priority of social health policies of the Brazilian governm...