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This essay results from a literature review and aims to reflect on the collective memory of older women about their social role. Thus, it assesses the importance of anchoring memory in a social context, in this case, the urban space and considers collective memory as a valuable resource for the reintegration of older women in the city and in claiming their social role. Individuals adhere to the space in which they live, this fact enables memories to be perpetuated and reconstructed over time.

Objective: To report a case of occupational accident that resulted in ostomy-generating surgery. Case Detail: The worker was rescued by co-workers and removed by mobile emergency service to the referral trauma hospital of the municipality. Nursing Diagnosis and Prescription were determined to meet the affected needs. The work accident, in addition to being unexpected, suddenly and traumatically interrupts the worker's life, revealing the need for guidance on transient physical limitations, return to daily activities and in this case the programming of a new surgical intervention.

The objective of the study is to describe the scientific evidence of nursing care in obstetric emergencies of adolescent mothers. This is an integrative literature review, carried out in the databases of the Virtual Health Library, Scientific and Technical Literature of Latin America and the Caribbean (LILACS), Online System Search and Analysis of Medical Literature (MEDLINE) and Base Nursing data (BDENF) as Descriptors Health Sciences (Decs)"Nursing performance." "Pregnant Women". Emergency and Rescue ServicesAssociated with the Boolean AND operator.

Objective: to analyze the quality of life of people affected by leprosy with physical disabilities participating in self-care support groups. Methods: descriptive study, conducted with participants from self-care support groups in leprosy (n=27), in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. Structured instruments were used, containing sociodemographic, economic and clinical information, as well as scales for the evaluation of quality of life.

Drug induced gingival enlargement is the most common cause of gingival enlargement in children. The drugs which are usually implicated are Anti-epileptic drugs like Phenytoin, Sodium Valproate, Calcium Channel blockers like Nifedipine and Verapamil. Phenytoin has been used for treatment of epilepsy in children since many decades inspite of the adverse effect of Gingival enlargement. Treatment of this enlargement mainly involves removal of local irritants and most importantly replacement of the offending drug.

Objetivos: Compreender a percepção da pessoa idosa acerca das práticas integrativas e complementares à saúde e identificar as principais Práticas Integrativas e Complementares utilizadas pela pessoa idosa no cuidado a saúde. Métodos: Trata-se de uma pesquisa descritiva, de cunho exploratório e de abordagem qualitativa, realizada em uma Unidade Básica de Saúde (UBS) do município de Itapetinga, Bahia. Participaram da pesquisa doze pessoas idosas, por meio de entrevista guiada por roteiro semiestruturado, sendo os dados analisados através de entrevista guiada por roteiro semiestruturado.

Introduction: The reproductive period is considered as protective of women's health, compared to the menopausal phase that is related to an increased cardiovascular risk and metabolic diseases. Climacteric is defined by the WHO as a biological phase of the life cycle, not a pathological process, which comprises the transition between the reproductive and non-reproductive periods of women's lives, with decreased production of steroid hormones and progesterone by the ovaries, and consequent increase in pituitary gonadotropins.

A educação em saúde é uma ferramenta indispensável na consolidação da atenção primária. Desta forma, o processo de formação dos médicos em Cuba possui direcionamento às práticas educativas em comunidade, o que proporciona um olhar diferenciado na atenção à saúde. Assim, o objetivo deste estudo foi investigar como é realizada a avaliação da educação em saúde por médicos com graduação cubana. Estudo descritivo, exploratório, realizado em 10 Unidades da Estratégia Saúde da Família da zona urbana do município de Jequié-Bahia, com o total de 10 participantes.

Introduction: Elderly patients who are undergoing a hospital-home transition process in a situation of dependency and who require continued health care and family support, with a preventive, rehabilitative or palliative purpose, the family member / caregiver presents limitations in the continuity of care, reflecting directly in the integrated health actions, making treatment difficult and sometimes interrupted. Objective: To analyze the challenges faced by the family in the continuous care of elderly patients facing hospitalization and the possible impacts on quality of life.

In this paper, alternatives in calculating double integrals will be used instead of the direct difficult known methods.