This qualitative study aims to analyze the nutritionist training in order to work in Primary Health Care from the perspective of lecturers of Higher Public Education Institutions (HPEI) in the southeast of Brazil, through ...

The interdisciplinarity in health care implies the articulation between different areas of knowledge around a common health care project, which has been pointed as an alternative to the mismatch between the training of new ...

SUS (Portuguese acronym for Unique Health System) is a political and organizational formulation for the reorganization of health services and actions, guided by the principles of universality, equity and integrality, but ...

In Brazil, private public interest initiatives undertaken in the third sector have assumed an important role in civil society by complementing the health care provided by the public health network. In São Carlos, a city ...

It is possible to identify the gender differences related to the use of psychoactive substances (SPA), such as the reason for use, comorbidities, cultural and physical factors. The SPA health policy indicates that it ...

The biopsychosocial phenomenon of drug use becomes a challenge to the health promotion because of the multitude of factors involved; among them, the subject's autonomy. Aiming to identify and understand a set of aspects ...

Regular physical activity (PA) has the key role in the promotion of basic health benefits and, consequently, a good quality of life (QOL). The study evaluated the effect of a Program of Guided Walk (PGW) in relation to ...

The strength of the orientation of the primary health care (PHC) depends on the presence and extent of each of its attributes. The APS has four essential attributes – “first contact access”, "longitudinality", “coordination” ...

The dietitian is a generalist professional, acting in all areas of knowledge that food and nutrition are critical to the promotion, maintenance and recovery of health and prevention of diseases of individuals or population ...