Abstract: Health teams in primary care play a key role in the eye health of users as they understand that early identification of any visual change can result in satisfactory outcomes and better prognoses, preventing damage that is often irreversible to health. Building an ophthalmological calendar for the therapeutic follow-up of glaucoma in the elderly, this is a methodological study, as the process of constr...
Abstract: Health teams in primary care play a key role in the eye health of users as they understand that early identification of any visual change can result in satisfactory outcomes and better prognoses, preventing damage that is often irreversible to health. Building an ophthalmological calendar for the therapeutic follow-up of glaucoma in the elderly, this is a methodological study, as the process of constr...
Objective: to build a proposal of care line for pregnant women infected with syphilis from the perspective of nurses. Methods: this is a qualitative research conducted with seven Primary Health Care nurses, through semistructured interviews with aid of a script with sociodemographic and professional data and guiding questions. The technique of Content Analysis in the thematic modality was used for data analysis...
The delay in diagnosing Tuberculosis (TB) has been used to reflect the quality and opportunity of access by patients to the health care. Among many aspects which must be incorporated to evaluate the access, the present study aims to identify the influence of individual determinants about the pattern of service utilization in the attention to TB diagnostic, supported by the theoretic axis of the behavioral model...
A cross-sectional study with the aim to analyze the performance of healthcare services with respect to diagnosing tuberculosis. We interviewed 101 users with tuberculosis, residents of a municipality in the Northeast region of Brazil. Bivariate analysis and the chi-squared test were applied for data treatment. We found a p<0.05 statistical significance between the first health service sought by user and the ...
ABSTRACT The objective was to analyze the organization of the tuberculosis control service in the Special Potiguara Indigenous Health District, from the view of indigenous health workers. This qualitative study was performed at the referred indigenous health district in the state of Paraíba, with 23 health workers. The empirical material was produced based on the foal group technique and analyzed according to t...
The goal was to analyze, according to the perception of health managers, the practices that guide tuberculosis control actions in cities in the metropolitan region of João Pessoa - PB, Brazil. This qualitative study involved eight professionals in management functions. Testimonies were collected through semi-structured interviews between May and June 2009 and organized through content analysis. Despite the ackn...