Prenatal care comprises a set of activities aimed at promoting the health of pregnant women and the fetus, as well as the identification of risks for both, aiming at providing adequate and timely care. Thus, the objective ...

The aging process is a universal phenomenon and common to almost all human beings. The natural course of life brings changes that can significantly affect the lives of those who experience it. In this sense, the objective ...

Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic disease that is affecting the population increasingly, becoming a serious public health problem in many countries. The aging population, increasing urbanization and the adoption of unhealthy ...

The Family Health Strategy (FHS) is shown to be a powerful instrument in the process of transforming mental health care, since it allows for a closer relationship between users, family, professionals and the community. An ...

Cervical cancer is a disease of slow and silent evolution, responsible for the high rate of female mortality in the world; it develops over a period of 10 to 20 years, with associated risk factors. Early detection is done ...

Leprosy, a slowly evolving infectious disease, has the means to maintain the endemic in household contacts. The epidemiological investigation carried out through the surveillance of patients' household contacts is one of ...

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a group of metabolic diseases resulting from defects in secretion and / or action of the hormone insulin, associated with acute or chronic complications such as neuropathy, responsible for the ...

The transformations that are occurring in everyday life of workers, over time, are designing a new way of life and setting different standards of health and disease. Several research have shown that stress is an occupational ...

The sepsis has represented a heavy burden on health systems around the world, both from an economic point of view as social. Is the leading cause o f death in Intensive Care Units (ICU) and is among the leading causes ...

Introduction: The millennial disease leprosy, called for many centuries by leprosy, still brings simultaneously rooted to its name, the prejudice and discrimination of those that have developed. Even today, represents a ...