Objective: To identify weaknesses in the continuity of care for preterm infants discharged from a neonatal unit, based on the perspective of professionals in the family health strategy.
Method: Qualitative research, carried out with 16 professionals from four health regions in a capital city in the center-west of Brazil. Data collection took place from October to December 2020, through semi-structured, individual, and in-person interviews.
A manual medicine consultation has existed in the canton of Vaud for ten years now, developed within Unisanté, the university centre for general medicine and public health in Lausanne. For a long time, this consultation was the only one of its kind set up in a university setting in Switzerland. Despite a growing interest and a more important development in German-speaking Switzerland and Germany, this approach remains relatively unknown to patients and therapists in the French-speaking cantons.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: to map the epidemiological profile of children and adolescents with COVID-19 in the world literature.
Methods: a scoping review systematized by the Joanna Briggs Institute protocol in the PubMed/MEDLINE, CINAHL, Web of Science, Scopus, Science direct and Google Scholar databases. Articles with children and/or adolescents with laboratory diagnosis of COVID-19 were used.
Functional weakness of the limbs has an uncertain prognosis and little chance of recovery. Obese people in precarious situations may succeed in losing weight through an intensive lifestyle-based weight loss program. In patients with gonarthrosis, physiotherapy may decrease pain and disability when compared to injected corticosteroids.
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