Aim: To investigate the causes of maternal death in a regional health jurisdiction of the Brazilian state of Maranhão. Method: This is a retrospective study exploring the maternal deaths from 2007 to 2011. The maternal deaths analyzed were of women between 10 and 49 years old during the pregnancy-puerpe...
The environment, understood in both its global and household dimensions, affects the health of living beings directly and, especially, human beings. Environmental and climatic disasters show that this fact has become increasingly common in everyday life. This study aimed to discuss further the thematic o...
This study aimed to evaluate the process of behavioral changes of caregivers of children of preschool age, from an activity of Health Education regarding the prevention of intestinal parasitosis. Descriptive study, conducted with eight caregivers of children from a public nursery in Fortaleza, whose step...
The Instruments of Development Improvement (IDI) of PROQUALI consists of evaluation protocols of the service structure and actions given from the Family Health Strategy (FHS), including the Family Planning (FP) program. The research objectives were to evaluate the welcome and quality of the subsequent co...
We tried to verify the puerperals' understandment on breastfeeding e its caracteristics. Descriptive in nature with quantitative aproach, realized between november of 2006 and january of 2007 at a reference maternity, with 252 puerperal interns. Most women were between the ages of 19 and 25 (123; 48,8%),...
