Past Issue

Nowadays much is talked about the Cancer (Arbuda) at all the levels of society. It includes both benign and malignant tumors. These are really the diseases having a limited line of treatment and its prognosis, the fate is also unpredictable as well as in spite of tremendous advances biomedical sciences the exact cause of cancer is unknown. Our body is made up of Tridosha, which is the three fundamental energies or principles which govern the function of our bodies on the physical and emotional level. The three energies are known as Vata, Pitta, and Kapha.

The emergency room, one of the possibility to access the Brazilian public health system, meets a growing demand of the elderly. This study was aimed to know the prevalence of use and associated factors with the emergency services utilization by the elderly, through population-based research in the five Brazilian geopolitical regions, in one hundred municipalities with different population sizes. Data were collected by electronic questionnaire from August 2008 to April 2009.

Objective: develop an educational technology (TE), hypertensive, guided listening to sensitive of this target audience. Method: This is an exploratory, descriptive research with qualitative approach, with theoretical basis in the theory of social representations.

Objective: to characterize the profile of domestic violence against women attended at a Reference Center. Methods: documentary study, exploratory and retrospective study with a quantitative approach, presenting a sample of 255 tokens corresponding to the period from 2010 to 2016. Data were analyzed in SPSS - version 21, using descriptive statistics of relative and absolute frequency, trend central (average) and dispersion (standard deviation), and the results discussed through literature on the subject.

This article is a result of a research that seeks to present the levels of management effectiveness of the municipalities in the state of Pará, calculated through the Municipal Management Effectiveness Index (MMEI), which is composed of seven sectoral indicators: education, health, planning, management fiscal, environmental, citizen protection and information technology and communication governance. The research is characterized as exploratory and the method adopted is bibliographical and documentary analysis.

The objective of this study was to identify the social support and your relationship with the life quality of caregivers of elderly dependents at home. It’s a quantitative study, exploratory and descriptive who obtained the participation of 72 caregivers of elderly dependents enrolled in basic health units from a city in the interior of Bahia. The data collect was realized by two instruments: Satisfaction with Social Support Scale (SSSS) and the Life Quality assessment tool, The World Health Organization of Quality of Life (WHOQOL BREF).

This paper is about strategies to mitigate fake certificates in Tanzania. Fake certificates have been alarming and the government of Tanzania tried to take some initiatives to solve the respective problem. Previous strategies which traditionally were used by the government to curb the problem; included submission of copy of form four certificate and copy of form 6 certificates of selected applicants to employing authority, rules and regulations such as Standing Orders, despite such traditional technique fake certificates still persists in public sector recruitment.

The purpose of this article is to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of China's Official Development Assistance (ODA) to the countries of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS). In this perspective, the article highlights the criticisms of Chinese ODA and the different approaches to it. It is clear from this article that the Central African countries would make the most of Chinese aid by improving their value chain and adopting reforms of their public policies.

The income of rural population in Suqian poverty-stricken area is far below the national average. In contrast, financial innovation model and poverty alleviation policy are important. In this context, the combination of financial innovation and the development of new preferential agricultural products and Poverty Alleviation Policies to adapt to local conditions is an effective means to improve farmers’ income.

This work has been based on research results obtained by Vieira (2009)1 and Vieira (2013)2 and, through a methodology based on index paradigm proposed by Ginzburg (1986) and in postulates of Foucault's philosophy (1969), seeks to investigate the existence of a legal-political statement in relation to Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, according to which, in Latin America in the last decades, to legitimize himself in exercise of power, a politician has to be built in the place of a hero, but in him does not want to perpetuate indefinitely as a tyrant.