Profile of blood donors who presented adverse reactions to the donation.

Objective: identify the adverse reactions presented by blood donors and outline their sociodemographic profile.

Method: a quantitative, cross-sectional retrospective study of 780 records of blood donors from a public hemocenter in the southern region of Brazil, from December 2015 to January 2016. For the analysis the descriptive statistics was used.

To donate or not donate, that is the question: an analysis of the critical factors of blood donation.

Currently, in Brazil, 1.78% of the population area blood donors, a level lower than the ideal one that, according to WHO, should be between 3% and 5% of the population. Following this scenario, the current study has a general goal of identifying and analyzing the main critical factors of the process of blood donation in the city of Belo Horizonte, MG, under the perception of donors, potential donors and non donors.

[Technological innovation and healthcare professionals' workloads: an ambiguous relationship].

This is an integrative review with the aim of tracing the scientific production concerning the influence of technological innovation in health care professionals' workloads. Fifty-seven (57) publications presented from 2004 to 2009 were selected from the LILACS and PubMed databases. In the selected studies field research using qualitative approaches and carried out in hospitals predominated.

[Work relations in interdisciplinary teams: contributions towards new forms of work organization in health].

This is a qualitative study developed with the interdisciplinary health care teams of two public hospitals in Brazil. One team gave palliative care to cancer patients and the other gave care to the elderly. The study contributes to thinking about work relationships in the health care sector upon analyzing the contribution of these experiences for the constitution of new forms of health care work organization.

[Work relationships among interdisciplinary teams: contributions for new methods of organization in health work].

This is a qualitative study developed with the interdisciplinary health care teams of two public hospitals in Brazil. One team provides palliative care to cancer patients and the other provides care to the elderly. The study contributes to thinking about work relationships in the health care sector upon analyzing the contribution of these experiences for the constitution of new forms of health care work organization.

[Condom use intention among young students in Belo Horizonte: an alert to gynecologists].

Purpose: to investigate factors that motivate safe sex practice, searching for antecedents of the intention to use condom among the population of young students in Belo Horizonte.

Methods: a survey based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) has been carried out in a sample of 732 students, with ages from 18 to 19 years old. Using the multiple regression analysis on data obtained from an anonymous questionnaire, the importance of antecedents of the intention to use condom, such as: attitude, subjective norm, moral norm, resistance to temptation and perceived control, was investigated.