The aim of this study was to describe the temporal trend of tuberculosis cases according to sex and age group and evidence the level of disease before the Covid-19 pandemic in a TB high endemic city
Objective: to identify the diverse scientific evidence on the types ofskin lesions caused due to the use of Personal Protective Equipment inhealth professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic and to verify therecommended prevention measures. Method: this is an integrativereview carried out in the MEDLINE, CINAHL, LILACS, SCOPUS,Science Direct, Web of Science and SciELO databases. The searchwas conducted in a pair...
Background and objectives: understanding the clinical-epidemiological and environmental factors related to deaths due to COVID-19 and their distribution in space can serve as subsidies to direct and implement more effective health actions for vulnerable populations. Thus, the objective was to synthesize the scientific evidence related to risk factors and spatial distribution of deaths due to COVID-19 in the wor...
Objective: to verify the relationship between leprosy and geographic space, taking into account social determinants of health and using a tool that allows the analysis of these relationships locally. Methodology: Ecological study, carried out in an endemic city in southern Brazil. The geocoding of the cases was conducted and socioeconomic variables of interest were selected. After descriptive analysis, we follo...
The aim of this study was to investigate the main therapeutic regimens used so far in the Covid-19 fight on the world stage. Is a systematic literature review conducted in ScienceDirect, Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (Lilacs) and Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) databases, using the term “treatment Covid-19”, carried out in April 2020. We selected 16 articles accordin...
Objective: To analyze the scientific evidence about the right to breastfeeding among women working. Methods: Integrative literature review guided by the question: What aspects are evidenced about the practice of breastfeeding among women working? Searches were conducted in the LILACS, PubMed® and MEDLINE® databases, and in the SciELO electronic library in May 2019, using the descriptors “Breast feeding”, “Women...
Sexual violence in women today is still considered a subject full of taboos and prejudices by society, and is characterized by sexual acts without the permission of the victim, in most cases is accompanied by physical force, psychological pressure, or even serious threat. This study aims to analyze the profile of women victims of sexual violence in Brazil. It is a study of integrative revision of the literature...
This study’s objective was to estimate the temporal trends of leprosy according to sex and age groups, as well as to estimate and predict the progression of the disease in a hyperendemic city located in the northeast of Brazil. This ecological time-series study was conducted in Imperatriz, Maranhão, Brazil. Leprosy cases diagnosed between 2006 and 2016 were included. Detection rates stratified by sex and age gr...
Objective: to evaluate the accuracy and to determine the prevalence of the defining characteristics of the nursing diagnosis Impaired gas exchange in children with respiratory diseases. Methods: cross-sectional study carried out with 236 children who were in the initial 48 hours of hospital admission. A questionnaire was used with sociodemographic data and physical examination of the respiratory system to ident...