Health Sciences

Adesão a terapia antirretroviral e qualidade de vida de adolescentes e adultos jovens vivendo com hiv/aids

Estudo transversal, objetivou descrever a correlação entre os domínios da qualidade de vidae a adesão ao tratamento antirretrovirala partir de escores das Escalas de Adesão ao Tratamento (CEAT-HIV) CEAT-HIV e do World Health Organization Quality of Life, versão abreviada (WHOQOL-HIV-Bref) dos 76 adolescentes e adultos jovens vivendo com HIV/Aids acompanhados no ambulatório de um hospital de referência em doenças infectocontagiosas no estado da Paraíba.Utilizou-setambém um questionário estruturado contendo informações sociodemográficas, afetivo-sexual e clínicas.

Urban violence as a factor that compromises access to health services and medicines: a scoping review

Violence has been considered one of the current public health problems. Among the various types of violence, urban violence has impacted the experience of those who live with armed conflicts constantly, including access to health services and medicines. This review aimed to analyze whether urban violence is a factor that compromises access to health services and medicines. Scoping review was the method selected. The search for the articles took place entirely online, in July 2019, updated in August 2020, in the main databases.

Fashion industry in Brazil: Productive and spatial profile and the emergence of fashion law

This article addresses the Brazilian fashion industry's productive and spatial profile. The study demonstrates its importance and the need to move forward in constructing a new legal discipline with its own body of rules that regiment the complex relationships involving the creative process and its trade products. Therefore, we outline the Brazilian fashion industry profile and show the advances in several countries to define this new law's boundaries.

Telemedicine in elderly care during the covid-19 pandemic: experience report

Introduction: Telemedicine has been progressively applied and accepted, especially in the current context, the new Coronavirus pandemic, with an overload on the health system and the need for social isolation. Objective: To report the experience of global geriatric assessment practice by medical students through teleconsultations. Experience report: Teleconsultations were carried out by medical students in which instruments were applied for the global geriatric assessment of a 72-year-old woman from a short-term institution.

Modelos de localização e análise econômica de unidade de serviço de atendimento médico de urgência

This study shows how location models such as p-median, p-center, and a proposed variation were employed to improve urgent and emergency care provided through the emergency mobile health units (SAMU). Besides incurring unnecessary additional operational costs, it is important to note that the failure or inefficiency of these mobile units can result in loss of human lives. The SAMU system in question serves a city with a population of approximately 213,576 inhabitants and it handles more than 1,400 calls per year.

Stature estimation from foot dimensions for human identification: A validation study

Objective: To validate the equation obtained by correlating the means of foot anthropometric measurements with the stature of individuals for human identification purposes. Methods: Cross-sectional, prospective, convenience sampling study with a sample of 450 individuals that met the pre-established inclusion criteria. Stature, foot anthropometric measurements, and footprint impressions of all participants were measured. Data were analyzed statistically by the software IBM SPSS, version 23. A significance level of 5% (p≤0.05) was adopted.

Fatores que dificultam a adesão de mulheres ao exame papanicolau

Objetivo: Identificar os principais fatores que dificultam a adesão de mulheres ao exame Papanicolau. Método: Trata-se de um estudo descritivo, realizado através de uma revisão de literatura, cujo tema abordou os fatores que predispõem a não adesão de mulheres ao exame Papanicolau. Foram utilizados dez artigos científicos, publicados entre 2019 e 2021, com busca na Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS), sites e plataformas científicas.

A importância do acompanhamento do cacs-fundeb para a efetividade do processo democrático na aplicação dos recursos públicos para melhoria da qualidade do ensino

A pesquisa tem como objetivo contribuir com a discussão acerca da importância das atribuições definidas nos instrumentos legais no que se refere ao acompanhamento do Conselho de Acompanhamento e Controle Social do FUNDEB para o desenvolvimento dos processos democráticos e da gestão democratic a partir do gerenciamento dos recursos financeiros destinados para a melhoria da qualidade do ensino. Para tanto, utilizamos análise documental (Leis, Decretos, Portarias, Documentos Ministeriais, entre outros).

Geração de renda com sustentabilidade para permanencia na propriedade rural familiar: uma proposta agroecológica

A sustentabilidade da propriedade é de fundamental importância para geração de renda, sendo fator imprescindível à continuidade da atividade produtiva e da permanência dele, e das descendências futuras, no meio rural. Logo, na intenção de contribuir com o homem e a mulher do campo, possibilitando a continuidade do mesmo na zona rural com geração de renda, foi desenvolvido um projeto com jovens agricultores e agricultoras familiares, de 15 a 29 anos, oriundos de assentamentos rurais do estado de Rondônia, Brasil.

Analysis of knee angulation in bodybuilders

The dynamic valgus is a biomechanical change in the excessive postural pattern of the knee joint, this change can be caused by excessive rotations of the hip and knee joint, and may be linked to a paresis of the muscles of the pelvis and thigh. The knee joint will move medially in relation to the foot due to the weakness of the posterolateral hip stabilizers, the knee makes an excessive abduction and hyperpronation of the foot due to the foot fixed on the ground. The objective of this research is to analyze the dynamic valgus of the knee in individuals who practice weight training.