Fall Tailoring Interventions for Patient Safety Brazil Program: an evaluability study in a teaching hospital.

Objectives: to present the theoretical model, logic model, and the analysis and judgment matrix of the Fall TIPS Brazil Program.

Methods: a qualitative, participatory research approach, in the form of an evaluability study, encompassing the phases (1) problem analysis; (2) program design, development, and adaptation to the Brazilian context; (3) program dissemination. Data were collected through document analysis and workshops.

Adherence to the follow-up of the newborn exposed to syphilis and factors associated with loss to follow-up.

Introduction: All newborns exposed to syphilis in pregnancy must have outpatient follow-up. The interruption of this follow-up especially threatens those children who were not treated at birth.

Objective: To describe the clinical, epidemiological, and sociodemographic characteristics of pregnant women with syphilis and their newborns, and to investigate the factors associated with the discontinuation of the follow-up.

[Epidemiology as a theoretical-methodological framework in the nurses' working process].

The objective of this reflection was to understand epidemiology as the theoretical-methodological framework for collective health nursing practice. This study is a bibliographic investigation which analyzed articles and books that point out the strengths and weaknesses of classic, social and critical epidemiology, with the purpose to examine their concepts in regards to nursing practice. The connections between the knowledge obtained from the above mentioned views of epidemiology which allow the creation of nursing interventions to change health realities are discussed.