Health Sciences

Introduction: Obesity portrays a multifactorial disease and presents a serious public health problem, with an alarming epidemic character. There are about two billion overweight and obese people in the world, and Brazil is in fifth place in the world ranking. This scenario is of concern as overweight promotes increased mortality related to the development of cardiorespiratory and metabolic diseases. Liraglutide (LG) is an analog of the hormone GLP-1.

It is an integrative review, whose objective was to analyze the demand and use of health services by adolescents. The research was made with articles published from 2013 to 2018, in the English, Portuguese and Spanish languages, through the BVS and PubMed, using the descriptors: adolescent; access to health services; adolescent health services; patient acceptance of health care and health services. Twelve articles were included in the final sample. The percentage of demand and use of health services varied from 22% to 94%.

Introdução: A implementação de ações inovadoras envolve desde a aquisição de conhecimento até uma reestruturação no mercado de saúde, cabendo ao gestor maximizar o recurso disponível em resposta a demanda. Objetivo: Descrever e analisar os relatos de gestores atuantes em serviços de urgência e emergência sobre sua experiência na implementação de ações inovadoras em seu cotidiano profissional.

Introduction: Firefighter stress is a specific work stress due to the urgency and the need for performance in the trade. The objective of our study is to evaluate stress among firefighters to determine stressors in firefighters and study their response to stress. Methodology: This is a descriptive, cross-sectional, and monocentric study in the Antananarivo Urban Community Fire Station in Tsaralàlana for a period of 35 days. Results: A total of 36 firefighters were selected, with an average age of 35.41% in a predominantly male population.

Background: Glycemic control is the key to preventing acute and chronic complications of diabetes mellitus. Change in life style and medication are the way to achieve control and prevent complications. Numbers of drug including insulin developed till date. These drugs are effective when lifestyle is changed. Numerous guidelines developed for judicial use of these drugs based on evidence in clinical trials. Both physician`s and patient’s factors found to be responsible for overall poor control of diabetes.

Intui-se descrever o conhecimento de enfermeiros na realização e interpretação de eletrocardiograma em um hospital público de médio porte do sul do país. Trata-se de pesquisa qualitativa, exploratória, descritiva, desenvolvida com nove enfermeiros nas Unidades de Emergência e de Tratamento Intensivo (UTI), por meio de entrevista semiestruturada e análise de traçados cardíacos. O posicionamento correto dos eletrodos sob a pele do paciente foi identificado por 33,3% dos enfermeiros em todas as derivações, e 66,6% erraram a colocação de duas ou mais derivações ou não souberam responder.

Delay in care seeking at health facilities for malaria related fever results into mortality of several children under five years. Both hospital and home-based care practices have contributed to delay in seeking care at the health facilities. However, few studies have investigated how home-based practices contribute to the delay.

Objective: to describe through evidence of nursing practices literature on patient safety in blood transfusions. Method: this is a descriptive, qualitative research, through Integrative Literature Review (RIL), in the databases LILACS, SCIELO and BDENF-BIREME, in the period from 2013 to 2018. We analyzed the data according to the technique and Bardin. The search resulted in 07 articles, emerging 4 thematic categories.

Delirium is a change in attention or awareness associated with changes in cognition, which occurs over a short period of time, may originate from cortical and subcortical dysfunctions, due to problems in the concentrations of neurotransmitters, responsible for cognitive function, behavior and mood. This study aimed to analyze the specialized literature regarding the incidence, evaluation and treatment of delirium in pediatric critical care.

Young foreigners entering university are more susceptible to behavioral changes. The study aimed to determine the changes in eating habits and oral hygiene, before and after arrival in Brazil, of foreign academics from African countries, from a Brazilian university of international nature. This is an exploratory, descriptive and qualitative study, conducted with African academics from different courses and semesters. After consent and completion of the questionnaire, the content analysis technique was applied.