Complementary and Integrative Medicine in academic health education.

Objective: To analyze academic education in Complementary and Integrative Medicine (CIM) according to university students from the health area.

Methods: Cross-sectional study with 1399 students from six public and private Brazilian universities, with online and in-person collection of socioeconomic, demographic, educational and academic data, carried out in 2019. The bivariate analysis was applied for the outcome "presence of CIM in academic health education", using the SPSS Statistic program, version 23.

Burnout and quality of life among correctional officers in a women's correctional facility.

Introduction: The correctional officer career is considered a stressful and risky occupation that can affect the mental health of workers due to stress and burnout; this syndrome presents itself with physical, psychological, behavioral, and defensive symptoms, ultimately affecting quality of life.

Objectives: To evaluate the sociodemographic profile, burnout levels, and quality of life of female correctional officers in a women's correctional facility, as well as to verify possible correlations between these variables.

Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study performed in a women's correctional facility located in Aquiraz, in the state of Ceará, through the use of 3 evaluation instruments: the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey, the abbreviated version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life instrument, and a general information questionnaire.

[The use, care and policy of complementary and integrative practices in primary health care].

The use of Complementary and Integrative Practices (CIP) is on the increase and its institutionalization in Primary Health Care (PHC) is a challenge. This article discusses the use, care, and policies of CIP at international and national levels found in the indexed literature. A review of the literature in PubMed/Medline and the Virtual Health Library was conducted using the key search words "Homeopathy", "Acupuncture", "Herbal Medicine", "Body Practices", "Primary Health Care" and other related terms in English, Spanish and Portuguese between 2002 and 2011.

[The Yin and Yang movement in the cosmology of Chinese medicine].

After being developed in the East, based on Taoist cosmology, Chinese medicine has been practiced in the West based on scientific foundations and biomedical paradigms. Some traditional elements of this philosophy were abandoned, such as the theory of Yin and Yang, knowledge that is essential for understanding the health-disease process resulting from the circulation of the body's energy flow. This article studies the movement of the dual elements of Yin and Yang in Chinese medical teaching, seeking to understand how this line of thought developed and how it has contributed towards establishing a system of diagnosis and therapy.