[Exposure to violence among adolescents in a low-income community in the northeast of Brazil].

This a cross-sectional study made in Fortaleza, Ceará, 2009, which included 458 teenagers and analyzed their exposure to violence, describing their access to weapons, alcohol abuse, illegal drug use and their self-esteem by investigating their socio-economic, school and family characteristics and exposure to the phenomenon. A questionnaire and/or structured interviews were used for data collection, and analysis involved Pearson's chi-square test, with 95% reliability. Of the 458 participants, 17.

[Aspects related to vaccine management and preservation in healthcare centers in the Northeastern Brazil].

This study characterizes the expertise and updated knowledge on immunization of nursing team responsible for vaccine rooms; it describes the work conditions in that sector from the team's view, and identifies the procedures and daily activities performed by such professionals. This cross-sectional study conducted in 2007 in vaccine rooms of 11 Family Healthcare Centers (CSF) in Fortaleza (CE, Brazil), involved 22 nursing team professionals and used a checklist and self-applicable questionnaire as the survey instrument. Among the participants, 44.

[Mandatory reporting of child abuse by professionals of Family Health Teams].

Against the dimension of the problem on violence against child and adolescent for the public health, this article analyzes the process of notification of violence in children and adolescents for doctors, nurses and dentists by the family health teams in Fortaleza, Ceará State, in the exercise of professional practice. It is treated as a study of cut-traverse with the participation of 359 professionals, registered as Family Health Teams (FHT). The questionnaire was applied, and the data collected were organized, codified, tabulated and submitted to a descriptive statistical analysis and calculations of statistics measures significant, through the Qui-square Test of Pearson (chi2) with respective value of p = 0.