In Brazil, since Constitution of 1988, health services and actions have become universal rights and state’s duty. The same Constitution stipulates that the direction of these services should be decentralized to local government administration and in association with the health council, deliberative and equal group, which gives the connection between user representatives, service providers, government, officials and professionals who work in healthcare.

The study is characterized as an experience report of a pair of the academic degree course in Nursing, School of Nursing, and Federal University of Mato Grosso. The objective was to promote a reflection about the importance of continuing education for community health agents working in the Family Health Program in Cuiabá-MT. We used a round of conversation as a means to understand the dynamics of the work of professionals. ACS participated in five. Experience has shown the need to reinforce some basic concepts for the correct supply of the Information System of Primary Care and to the profession in the community. The contact with the academic work environment led to the understanding of the involvement of nursing in the planning and execution of specific thematic and sequential, considered relevant to the expansion of knowledge of those who contribute significantly to the health of the community. The concluding remarks point out that lifelong learning is an effective means to qualify the work of the ACS.

The study is characterized as an experience report of a pair of the academic degree course in Nursing, School of Nursing, and Federal University of Mato Grosso. The objective was to promote a reflection about the importance of continuing education for community health agents working in the Family Health Program in Cuiabá-MT. We used a round of conversation as a means to understand the dynamics of the work of professionals. ACS participated in five. Experience has shown the need to reinforce some basic concepts for the correct supply of the Information System of Primary Care and to the profession in the community. The contact with the academic work environment led to the understanding of the involvement of nursing in the planning and execution of specific thematic and sequential, considered relevant to the expansion of knowledge of those who contribute significantly to the health of the community. The concluding remarks point out that lifelong learning is an effective means to qualify the work of the ACS.

This study had as objective evaluates the process of teaching learning of a discipline of the area of health presented in the education modality at the distance using the strategy on teaching line. The methodology of used evaluation was of qualitative study, theoretical type and analyze of the students' perceptions with relationship to the existence in the process. The data were collected through an instrument with closed subjects that meditate used by UnB. The results of the study detach contributions with relationship to the planning, execution and evaluation of the lived process, highlighting as progresses the methodological innovation for the process of teaching, of the amplification of offers to the different courses of this university and of the pioneirismo in the offer of disciplines with this learning strategy

O presente trabalho teve como objetivo estudar o estado nutricional e consumo alimentar de hipertensos e diabéticos cadastrados na Unidade Básica de Saúde Baltazar Pereira no município de Várzea Grande – MT. Trata-se de um estudo epidemiológico, de delineamento transversal, onde participaram 146 indivíduos. A coleta dos dados aconteceu de outubro de 2010 a janeiro de 2011 utilizando-se de um questionário/formulário previamente elaborado, contendo questões pertinentes a dados sociodemográficos e antropométricos bem como características referentes ao padrão alimentar baseadas no Guia Alimentar de Bolso. Notou-se um predomínio de indivíduos idosos (62,3%), do sexo feminino (75,6%), de baixa escolaridade (74% não cursou Ensino Médio), baixa aquisição econômica (97,9% com renda familiar abaixo de 5 salários mínimos), além de sedentarismo(74%) e sobrepeso ou obesidade (73,3%). Quanto a alimentação, 27,4% fazem no mínimo 5 refeições diárias, 95,7% não adicionam sal à comida pronta e 39,7% fazem a leitura das informações nutricionais contidas no rótulo dos alimentos. Diante disso, percebe-se a necessidade de ações que promovam uma alimentação saudável voltada a esse público e a prática de exercícios físicos como formas de controle do peso corporal e prevenção de agravos à saúde.

The System of Food and Nutritional Surveillance (SFNS) is a vigilance system that stores information about population feeding and nutrition and also data about the nutritional conditions that can affect their health. The aim of this study, therefore, was to diagnose the reality of SFNS in the Basic Health Unit (BHU) Despraiado I / Cuiabá-MT. Based on previously prepared forms that were created for the Family Health Team (FHT) and the program technical manager, and in information available in the BHU registration cadastres, data collection happened in August 2010. The SFNS at the studied BHU began in 2007, being detected incomplete and inconsistent data in 43 forms, with a coverage of 0% of the related group. Feeling unable to implement the SFNS relevant actions, the FHT questions the lack of feedback to the community concerning to improvements in their dietary pattern. In turn, the SFNS technical manager attaches to BHU the existing flaws concerning to low coverage and inconsistent data. It was observed, therefore, the great importance of capacitating the FHT in order to increase the coverage and quality of data in forms filling out.

The ocurrence of low birth weight infants varies among contries, and even a general inidcator of health status of a population to be highly associated with socieconomic conditions(3). Newborns with low birth weight are more vulnerable to problems that increase the risk of morbidity and mortality(9). Several factors may be associated with low newborn weight among mothers with less than 20 years or over 35 years(16,17). Objectives: To describe the low-weight births in hospitals in the city of Cuiaba in the period 2000 to 2008 using the variables of the birth certificate (race, sex of infant and maternal age) Method: a quantitative study, cross-sectional, restrospective and described with the use of secundary sources of data obtained from the Information System on Live Births (SINASC). The study population was constituted by the set of all vital statistics records of hospital deliveries of low birth weight infants n= 6.523, in the municipality of Cuiabá – MT in the period 2000 to 2008. Included only information from births and hospital births only, and with body weight equal to or less than 2,500g, this criterion is basead on the WHO classification.

This descriptive study with qualitative approach aimed to assess the perception of people with high blood pressure (hypertension), about the difficulties stemming from the treatment of hypertension. The study included seven individuals diagnosed with hypertension for at least 5 years, living in an area covered by the Family Health Strategy, in Várzea Grande city - MT. Data were collected through semi-structured individual interviews. We used the Collective Subject Discourse to organize the data and the theory of social representations as theoretical. The analysis was done by identifying common sense, highlighting the social representations that anchor the knowledge, experiences and needs of hypertensive patients in need of attention from health professionals. The results showed that hypertensive patients have difficulty to drug treatment, change in lifestyle, fear of complications of hypertension and that there are deficiencies in the health service. The final considerations reveal the need for joint actions that contribute to adherence to treatment of hypertension, such as improvements in the provision of service, co-responsibility and establishing a relationship on the part of the healthcare team to reflect in the users’ quality of life.

This essay aims to provide brief information about aspects of aging on their influence on functional capacity, not only on the intrinsic factors, such as physiological and disease, but as to extrinsic factors such as socioeconomic and demographic diversity. And talk about the need to investigate the profile of seniors enrolled in Family Health Programs, as in the administrative region of Paranoá, Distrito Federal.

Frente às crescentes taxas de produção, venda e consumo de metilfenidato no Brasil, o presente artigo busca discutir a medicalização do tratamento do transtorno de déficit de atenção e hiperatividade, um transtorno neuropsiquiátrico que acomete crianças caracterizadas sintomatologicamente como desatentas, hiperativas e impulsivas. O transtorno de déficit de atenção e hiperatividade associa-se com significativo comprometimento funcional em diversas áreas e, à medida que o indivíduo cresce, ocorrem também taxas crescentes de co-morbidade psiquiátrica, portanto deve ser alvo de intervenção. O tratamento envolve o uso do metilfenidato na maioria dos casos. Há de se considerar, no entanto, que esta substância pode provocar efeitos adversos potenciais em crianças e que as co-morbidades associadas ao transtorno ou os sintomas resultantes de problemas na vida de relação das crianças dificultam o diagnóstico. Além disso, a propaganda velada do medicamento pode induzir educadores e responsáveis pela criança pressionar médicos a prescreverem o metilfenidato, o que pode ter como conseqüência o sobre-diagnóstico do transtorno de déficit de atenção e hiperatividade. Considerando que a propaganda, a comercialização e dispensação do metilfenidato são controladas sanitariamente, apontamos para a necessidade de se avaliar a efetividade de tais medidas de controle e sugerimos novas medidas.

Starting from the concepts of a project and political-pedagogic project, it presents a proposal for its construction based in marks. The suitable marks include: the referencial, the philosophical, the conceptual and the structural. The mark referencial is the starting point, that is to say, the knowledge and critic of the reality; the philosophical mark represents the faiths and the community's values involved in the project; the conceptual mark is represented by the theory or concepts that give support to the proposal; and, finally the structural mark establishes the competences and the profile of the professional to be formed and the methodological option for organization and development of the matters and disciplines.

Este artículo trata de la evolución histórica de la legislación que reglamenta el ejercicio de la (el) Enfermera (o) en el área obstétrica, especialmente en el parto y nacimiento, destacando el movimiento mundial para su humanización.

For prenatal care is a need for qualified professionals prenatal develop the skills required by both the proposed Brazilian Ministry of Health as the International Confederation of Midwives. This study aimed to characterize the profile of nurses who provide prenatal care in Cuiabá, MT, in search of some of the essential skills to skilled attendance at prenatal care. A descriptive study was applied in 182 professional nursing staff, of which 74 were nurses. We used individual interviews and structured data collection. The data obtained were statistically analyzed with SPSS software program. The results show a predominance of females, mean age 36.5 years, married, with children, more than 10 years of experience with pregnant women, low frequency for specialists in obstetrics, 68.9% of nurses reported difficulty in caring for pre-home, 49% of these alleged unpreparedness in the conduct of clinical complaints, low frequency in the professionals who have undergone refresher courses and participation in events related to prenatal care. The study recommended the establishment of the protocol of prenatal care and qualifications of all members of the nursing team, from the perspective of skilled attendance at prenatal and contributions in reducing morbidity and maternal and infant mortality.

The historical approach can contribute to understanding the process of construction of different paradigms about the body and how this is reflected in actions and training of health. From the century XIX the control of the body considered as “territory” was exercised through the instrumentalization of medicine, which can be seen as the main formulator of a narrative or a dominant discourse, hegemony over the body and health. The different approaches to the body influenced and were influenced by the relationships established between the Education and Health professionals.

: Quantitative study aimed to know the understanding of adolescents about their sexuality and how the exercises for further intervention by the health team. We administered a structured questionnaire in a sample of 43 adolescents aged 12 to 19 years living in the area covered by the Family Health Unit Dr. Fabio I and II. The data were tabulated in the spreadsheet program Microsoft Office Excel 2007, allowing for a descriptive treatment, keeping a confidence interval of 95%. The results show that 32.5% of participants had first intercourse between 12 and 16, and 50% of them admit they have used a condom at last intercourse. In addition, 4.6% have had some kind of sexually transmitted disease. The study indicates the need for educational activities in sexual and reproductive health to adolescents facing the neighborhoods studied, with a view to promoting health.

This study aimed to evaluate the subjective perception of individuals participating in a long-lasting LSC program with obvious benefits in physical fitness, obesity and related feeding undetected. One hundred and four individuals (54.04 ± 7.7 years), of whom 74% were females with exercise / nutritional counseling for two years, there was random sub-sample comprising 24 individuals (16 females and 8 males) was formed, and open non-structured interviews were conducted by using a guiding question. Within the categories found, 96% of respondents mentioned changes related to the physical domain after participating in the project; 67% reported psychological changes, and 83% mentioned changes in the social domain. Males and females showed a similar behavior to the feeling of better health, more energy and weight reduction or maintenance in the physical domain, the feeling of joy and satisfaction for the psychological realm and increased number of friends concerns the social domain. It is concluded that improvements by participating from participating in the LSC program was predominantly related to physical, psychological and social aspects, leading to the assumption that these are important factors that motivate individuals to continue participating in the preventive and therapeutic approach.

With the objective of evaluating the quality of prenatal and analyse the epidemiological data of their women in the city of Tefé, in the interior of the Amazon, was a study descriptive and quantitative, secondary source documentation, by evaluation of the book of records that contain information about the card of their women who attended prenatal 93 in Tefé Regional Hospital of that city in April 2009. The results showed that the average age of women in labour was 23.3 years, most completed elementary education, and more than 50% have stable relationship, being three the number of children. Regarding prenatal assessment, 55% prenatal began until the fourth month, approximately 46% held six consultations during the prenatal, 22.6% had 65.6% have 6 queries, at least 1 time basic examinations and 77% were immunized. The comparison of these results with other studies conducted in different regions of Brazil served as a tool to compare prenatal assessment in several Brazilian States. Is of great value the result of this research for improvement of care, since there are no records of assessment of quality of care provided during prenatal Amazonas State and also to encourage new research in the State.

This study observes the experience of two nurses acting at the surgical clinic at Hospital of Education of the South of Brazil, while belonging to the Interdisciplinary Wounded People Care Group (Grupo Interdisciplinar de Cuidados de Pessoas com Feridas – GICPF). Its objective is to divulge GICPF and the daily routine of the assistance of wounded people. The group focuses in planning, spreading information and assisting wounded people providing improvement of life quality and reduction of inpatient stay. Through participation in the group, a larger acceptance to new topic therapies was verified, widening the conception of wounded people care.

The education and promotion of health she make guaranteeing knowledge, aptitudes and opportunities to the people so that they can make decisions and to have attitudes that improve your conditions of health. The training for promotion of patients' health with sequels of BIRD (it Alters Vascular Encefálico) and patients' caretakers with sequels of BIRD, it can contribute to improve the life quality and to promote the solemnitycare.