Health Sciences

Cleidocranial Dysostosis (CCD) is characterized as a rare autosomal dominant genetic syndrome with no gender preference, characterized by a defect in the gene CBFA1 of chromosome 6p21, which modulate the formation of osteoblasts. Its clinical characteristics are clavicle aplasia or hypoplasia, changes in skeletal level with influence on the anatomical structure of the wearer and polydontia. There is no specific treatment, and the main conduct is to offer the best possible quality of life to the bearer, and this involves oral health.

The study was aimed to assess the Maintenance Hemodialysis (MHD) Patients' Satisfaction with Care in Hemodialysis Unit. A descriptive design was used on 70 Maintenance Hemodialysis (MHD) Patients of hemodialysis unit of Deep Kidney Care Centre, Model Town, Ludhiana, Punjab. With the help of total enumerative sampling technique, 70 Maintenance Hemodialysis (MHD) Patients were selected. Structured Patient Satisfaction Scale (PSS) was used to assess Maintenance Hemodialysis (MHD) Patients' Satisfaction with Care in Hemodialysis Unit.

The objective of this study was to identify the characteristics and the profile of pediatric hospitalizations in hospitals of the public health system in the Northeast of Brazil. A retrospective study was carried out, consisting of 82 children who were hospitalized in a small public hospital in the Brazilian northeast. It was found that 52.4% of the children were female, while 47.5% were male. It was observed that 100% of the interviewees were of the brown color, where 56% lived in the rural area and 44% lived in the urban area.

Introduction: actions and services offered to the population can be analyzed through a geographical information system, such as in the case of data geoprocessing linked to the conditioning and determining factors of health. Objective: to describe the distribution of spatial offer of physical activity practice in the Primary Health Care, in the municipality of Campo Grande – MS, Brazil.

Objective: This study sought to evaluate the health conditions of elderly people in a status of coresidence. Methods: This is a descriptive study, with a cross-sectional design and quantitative approach. It was performed in a Family Health Unit in the city of Vitória da Conquista - Bahia. The data were produced through the application of questionnaires containing questions about the elderly sociodemographic characteristics, life habits and health status. Results: A total of 125 elderly people living in coresidence status participated in the study.

Objective: To report experiences of nursing students in the use of educational activities as a strategy to promote healthy eating for the elderly. Method: Experience report that describes aspects experienced by the authors, at the opportunity of an educational intervention, carried out with fourteen elderly people from a community located in Ananindeua, State of Pará, Brazil, in October 2016. Results: The development of educational action, with the theme of healthy eating, had a positive impact on the behavior of the elderly.

Objective: to list the reasons that influence nursing mothers to early weaning. Method: cross-sectional study, with qualitative approach, carried out at a family health basic unit, with 16 women, by means of semi-structured interviews. Data collection took place in June and July 2016. The data were organized into categories, in which the speeches were associated and interpreted by the Content Analysis technique.

This manuscript is a literature review of the effects of treating patients hospitalized with HIV and cared for by their relatives. The therapeutics that takes into account the presence of the family of the patient with AIDS, has had positive effects on the evolution of the health of these individuals. Such results have led public health officials in several countries to include the method among the possibilities of aiding the treatment of HIV patients.

Objective: To identify the epidemiological profile of children who underwent the Guthrie test at a public maternity hospital in the state of Pernambuco - Brazil, in the period from January/2009 to December/2013. Methods: Descriptive, exploratory, retrospective study, with quantitative approach.

The morphometric of hepatic ducts angle has been measured and related to some pathologies for the importance of overcoming some further invasive techniques and deducing valuable diagnostic findings. Measurement carried out of contrasted MRI for hepatic ducts angle, gallbladder volume, tumor diameter, stone diameter using ImageJ\ImageJ.exe software program; by drawing two lines running within the origins of both Right and Left hepatic ducts and crossing at biliary confluence angle on coronal oblique images in addition to gender, age, common diagnosis of liver.