Prenatal care associated with neonatal outcomes in maternity hospitals: a hospital-based cross-sectional study.

Objective: To verify the association between prenatal care quality indicators and neonatal outcomes in maternity hospitals.

Method: Hospital-based cross-sectional study in four high-risk referral maternity hospitals in the five health macro-regions enabled by the Stork Network in Ceará-Brazil. Between April 2017 and July 2018, 440 puerperal women were interviewed using simple probabilistic sampling and a formula with finite populations and stratification of each maternity hospital.

Experiences in the Family Health Strategy: demands and vulnerabilities in the territory.

Objective:: To understand the daily demands of Family Health Strategy in clinical practice of the team and social vulnerabilities of community territory.

Method:: Research with qualitative approach, in a critical-reflexive perspective, held with two teams of the Family Health Strategy, in the city of Fortaleza, State of Ceará, Brazil. The participants were 22 users and 19 health professionals from the basic health network.

[Democracy and participation of individuals as citizens: a debate on health education practices].

Democracy and citizen's participation are part of several aspects of life, and are required in health education, representing the necessary connection to the satisfaction of this practice. Discourse and practices of health education in health services are discussed in this article according to two main categories: 1) democracy and citizenship, and 2) participation of individuals as citizens. One of the strategies used by health professionals to provide the individuals autonomy as health promoters is strengthening the individuals' capacity to participate in decisions that affects them.