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Introdução: O processo de luto sem despedida causa repercussões sociais e para a saúde dos familiares enlutados, necessitando de cuidados específicos Objetivo:conhecer como ocorre o cuidado as famílias enlutadas por familiares vítimas de homicídios. Metodo: Revisão integrativa, com dados coletados na Biblioteca Virtual da Saúde (BVS) com os seguintes descritores: “Homicídio”,“Luto” e “Cuidados” e utilizando o operador booleano AND por favorecer a intersecção dos descritores.

To Este estudo tem por objetivo analisar a mortalidade evitável como indicador de disparidades na mortalidade por raça/cor e sexo em uma Região de Saúde do Maranhão. Configura-se como trabalho do tipo ecológico realizado emsete municípios da Região de Saúde de Caxias com base nas declarações de óbitos ocorridos entre 2006 e 2015. O método de análise estatística foi baseado na regressão binomial negativa.No período estudado, ocorreram 5.277 óbitos por causas evitáveis.

Objetivo: Analisar a mortalidade por grandes capítulos da CID-10 em um município do Maranhão. Métodos: Trata-se de um estudo descritivo com abordagem quantitativa utilizando dados de 7.484 Declaração de Óbitos dos anos de 2006 a 2015 registrados no Sistema de Informação sobre Mortalidade. Resultados: Houve umaumento na taxa de mortalidade de 14,2% , sendo maissignificativo no sexo masculino. Redução de 5,8% na mortalidade por doenças do aparelho circulatório, aumento de 43,8% por neoplasias e de 35,9% por causas externas de morbimortalidade.

This study aims to estimate the proportion of live births to adolescent mothers for Brazil and regions and to provide a time trend and analysis of the spatial area, from 2008 to 2017. It is an ecological study of time series, with data collected from the Live Birth Information System (SINASC) and the Department of Informatics of the Unified Health System (DATASUS). We calculated the proportion of live births by dividing the number of live births of mothers from 10 to 19 years old, by the total live births of mothers in the same area, multiplied by 100.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine health – related quality of life (HRQoL) in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and children with Down syndrome (DS). Methods: The study was based on measurements in a sample of 206 children with ASD (61), DS (55) and typical development (TD) (90), aged 5-10 years old, after administering anonymous questionnaires to their parents - caregivers. The Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory ™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales – Parent Report (PedsQL™ 4.0) was used to measure health-related quality of life.

Comprehension constitutes the main purpose of reading, one of the most important human skills. Furthermore, reading and therefore comprehension are perplexing procedures, that are built through the interaction of the cognitive functions. Comprehension occurs in a cognitive and metacognitve level. Meta-comprehension indeed, constitutes an important interpretive factor of learning, especially in the field of text comprehension.

Introduction: Headache and a well-known condition that affects large numbers of people among young people and adults bringing great socioeconomic damage. Tension-type headache (TTH) has a predominance in adult women and a prevalence of 90% versus 67% of men. Objective: This study aimed to compare which technique, MRT or Pompage, had the best efficacy on TTH.

SARS-CoV-2 belongs to the Coronaviridae family and of the order Nidovirales, which has positive non-segmented RNA, of the enveloped type that causes a severe acute respiratory syndrome in humans, which has already infected more than 9 million people worldwide, leading to 496,075 deaths by June 27, 2020, making the search for alternative treatment for this pathogen urgent. Thus, this study aimed to conduct a bibliographic survey of research that presents treatment alternatives for the new coronavirus.

The expectation around the behavioral changes that would mark the new millennium stimulatedstudies since the 1980s revealing a paradigm shift in the discourse on marketing and brands. Theconcept of experience was introduced as the new trend for business and consumer studies (Holbrook,Hirschman, 1982, Pine II, Gillmore 1998, Schmitt 2001). The idea defended by the scholars of thesubject is that, in the contemporaneity, the promotion of memorable experiences allows to establisha deeper relation with the consumer.

Açaí is becoming an important economic factor in the Amazon region, due to the full use of the product; the beaten fruit is transformed into açaí, rich in beneficial properties for our organism, the pits serve as fertilizer, from the stem, the hearts of palm are removed, the roots are used for medicinal purposes, the leaves and peels serve as raw material for crafts and the like.