Past Issue

Musical education today: (re) affirmation of creative practices in music teaching

In this article, we discuss the importance of reaffirming music teaching in educational spaces, ensuring its permanence within the scope of regular school. Thus, our primary objective here is to present the relevance that Murray Schafer, Marisa Fonterrada and Alicia Peñalba teach about the use of “creative” educational-musical practices for the teaching of music as an element that enhances human, cognitive, critical, emotional, political development and social.

Factors affecting the choice of public or private health care facilities in Vietnam

The study aims to find out factors affecting the choice of visiting public or private health care facilities in Vietnam using logistic regression. Cross-sectional data from Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey (VHLSS) conducted in 2016 are used for this study.The study finds that most of variables were statistically significant, including household whose heads were elderly; ethnicity; residence place; education of household heads; household wealth; health insurance participation status and region.

Aspects of tuberculosis (tb) in Brazil

This article aims to update the literature on the construction of the history of the epidemiological surveillance service in the country. Since 1886, epidemiological surveillance has been standardized through strategies for the development of patient counting systems. In 1903, the Health Service was created affiliated with the Military Police in São Paulo. Vertically; the vaccination campaign against the Yellow Fever epidemic was carried out. This measure provoked a popular uprising. In the face of adverse health events, endemic control guidelines were established.

Designer drugs: global chemical weapon

Drug – the word in itself sounds scary. We all have heard many horror stories surrounding this word. However, in reality, the drug is not something to be scared off. We all use it in our daily lives. It is not us humans, and even animals do; in the form of medicines. The scientific definition of 'drug' defined as "an article proposed for use in the finding, cure, alleviation, treatment, or hindrance of infection in people or creatures." The primary issue that comes with a drug is that once taken, it influences the body in both positive and negative manner.

Combate à corrupção no Brasil: o caso dos servidores públicos do poder executivo federal

O artigo objetiva analisar o combate à corrupção, por meio da atuação da Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU) junto aos servidores públicos do Poder Executivo Federal, no período de 2003 a 2017. Por meio de uma metodologia exploratória e descritiva, foi feito um levantamento das punições aplicadas aos servidores nos atos relacionados à corrupção.

Conservative approach tounicystic ameloblastoma in a pediatric patient - case report and clinical challenges

Ameloblastomas are benign odontogenic neoplasms characterized by the proliferation of epithelial cells that have characteristics similar to those of the enamel organ. They are tumors that affect the gnathic bones that show faster growth and greater potential for recurrences than other odontogenic tumors. Two basic forms of distinct behavior are found: conventional (solid / multicystic) and unicistic. Unicystic ameloblastomas are more rare and less prone to recurrence than conventional ameloblastomas.

Clinical anatomy of uretheric constraints: A systematic review

Introduction: The ureter is a channel responsible for carrying urine to the urinary bladder, through peristalsis and contractions, however, this channel can be affected by three types of constrictions, at the junction of the ureter with the renal pelvis called the ureteropelvic, from the edge of the pelvis to the passage of the iliac blood vessels called the abdominopelvic and at the intersection of the external iliac artery and the bladder wall called the vesicoureteral.

Maternal deaths by haemorrhage in the gynaecology and obstetrics department at the teaching hospital of cocody

Objective: To improve the management of hemorrhagic complications during gravido-puerperium in order to reduce its lethality in the gynaecology and obstetrics department of Cocody’s Teaching Hospital. Patients and methods: This was a retrospective and descriptive study that involved women who died of hemorrhagic causes in the service during the period of gravido-puerperium as defined by the WHO. It covered a period from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2017 at the Gynaecology and Obstetrics Department of Cocody’s Teaching Hospital.

Anatomoclinical and surgical correlation of the radial artery with the surface branch of the radial nerve

The present study aimed to correlate the clinical and surgical anatomy of the radial artery with the superficial branch of the radial nerve, looking for injuries to this nerve in the literature through surgery of the mentioned vessel. Thus, the present study consisted of observational and descriptive research. Eleven upper limbs and a digital caliper were used to measure the distance between the radial artery and the superficial branch of the radial nerve (vasculonervous bundle). Dissections of the anterior, posterior, lateral and medial sides of the arm, forearm, and hand were performed.