[Longitudinal care: factors associated with adherence to postpartum follow-up according to data from PMAQ-AB].

The aim was to identify factors of longitudinal care associated with women´s adherence to postpartum consultation in Brazil. This was a cross-sectional study of data from 19,177 postpartum women who participated in the external assessment of the third cycle of the Brazilian National Program for Improvement of Access and Quality of Basic Care (PMAQ-AB), 2017. The dependent variable was postpartum consultation, and the independent variables, grouped hierarchically, were sociodemographic and economic at the distal level and issues analogous to longitudinal care at the proximal level.

Case management as a high-risk prenatal care strategy.

Objective: to discuss the benefits of using high-risk prenatal case management.

Method: a qualitative, convergent care study with six high-risk pregnant women, performed in a municipality in the south of Brazil. Data were produced by case management from April to August of 2017 through observation-participant.

[Multi-causality in nursing work accidents with biological material].

In order to analyze the multiple causes of occupational accidents with biological exposure among nursing staff was carried out a descriptive and exploratory research in a medium-sized hospital in the State of Paraná, in the period between January 2008 and January 2009. The population was 26 nursing staff of the medical clinic. Data collection was performed by semi-structured interviews with five of the eight injured in the period and its contents were analyzed by Causes and Effects Diagram.

[A contribution to occupational health: a guide on the exposure to biological fluids].

Health workers are exposed to occupational hazards at the workplace, among which we highlight the biological risk. Information and orientation should be provided regarding the conduct that workers are expected to follow in the case becoming exposed. Thus, this guide is intended to provide the elements to orient workers' conduct in cases of biological exposure, improving adherence to the monitoring protocol.