Although scientific evidence supports the clear benefits of breastfeeding for the mother, baby, family, society and our environment, there is limited improvement in this regard, and the key indicators remain stagnant. To ...

Healthcare centered on the pregnant woman and on collective prenatal care has been growing internationally and aims at valuing the needs of pregnant women, information sharing and social support for the construction of ...

During adolescence, interpersonal relationships receive greater value; the family space expands to build new interactions and relationships. In general, the adolescent does not present great rates of illness or mortality ...

Currently, there is a progressive increase in the number of elderly people providing care to another elderly person. The task of caring can harm the health of the caregiver. Elderly caregivers are more prone to comorbidities ...

Frailty is a multidimensional syndrome and a predictor of adverse outcomes in the elderly. The aim of this study was to identify changes in the levels of frailty and its relationship with mortality in the elderly in a ...

Introduction: The increase in elderly people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (AD) brings challenges to society, especially to family members, who often become informal caregivers, culminating in a series of biopsychosocial ...

Introduction: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) affects percentage significant impact of patients using invasive mechanical ventilation, promoting adverse effects on and often fatal outcomes resulting from lung injury ...

Pain Neuroscience Education (PNE) aims to reconceptualize maladaptive behaviors and modify erroneous pain beliefs. Objective: Analyze the effects of pain neuroscience education on pain catastrophization in elderly people ...

In the current obstetric context, much has been discussed about ways of being born, given how impactful and transforming this event is in the lives of women and their families, and in society. Despite many advances, perinatal ...

The news of juvenile childhood cancer generates, for the family, a break in expectations and a feeling of unpreparedness in the face of the unknown. Thus, what often occurs is a process of adapting the entire family system ...