Vulnerability to loss of follow-up and death due to tuberculosis among homeless individuals in Brazil: a retrospective cohort study.

This retrospective cohort study identified factors associated with loss of follow-up and death due to tuberculosis (TB) in the homeless population (HP) in Brazil, estimating odds ratios (OR) and their 95% confidence intervals (95%CI) by multinomial logistic regression. A total of 3,831 TB cases in this population were analyzed, of which 57.0% had unfavorable outcomes.

Primary Health Care and Tuberculosis Detection during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Crucial Actions for Intensifying Efforts.

Background: Tuberculosis has been considered a global emergency since 1993, and controlling it has become even more challenging since 2020 due to the health and social crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to identify the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis case detection activities within primary health Care in the largest city in Brazil.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional and analytical study on the provision of tuberculosis detection actions in primary healthcare units during the pandemic period.

Tuberculosis from the perspective of men and women.

Objective: To analyze aspects related to the experience of tuberculosis from the perspective of men and women with tuberculosis.

Method: Qualiquantitative cross-sectional study. Patients with tuberculosis in the city of Campina Grande-PB were interviewed through a semi-structured questionnaire between September/2017 and January/2018.

Vulnerabilities of Arab refugees in primary health care: a scoping review.

Objective: To map and analyze the vulnerabilities of Arab refugees in the context of primary health care.

Method: Scoping review in which studies published in English, Spanish and Portuguese languages from 2011 onwards were reviewed. The following databases were surveyed: Cochrane, Scopus, Health System Evidence, MedLine-PubMed, CINAHL, Embase, Lilacs, Web of Science, SciELO, NYAM Grey Literature, BVS, Capes Thesis and Dissertation Database, Refworld and Journal of Refugee Studies.

Meaning and social participation of man when become a father for the first time.

Objective: To analyze the meanings attributed to fatherhood by first-time fathers.

Participants And Method: Qualitative research of Hermeneutic-Dialectic design. Data collection was carried out through in-depth interviews with fathers and mothers (10 of each) of children older than 12 months.

Tuberculosis in the street population: a systematic review.

Objective: To analyze evidence of the occurrence of tuberculosis in people living on the streets provided by the literature.

Method: Systematic review conducted in the databases PubMed, EMBASE, LILACS, and SciELO electronic library. Analysis of the empirical material was guided by Hermeneutics.

Assessment of compliance with malaria treatment monitoring and cure verification activities.

Objective: To assess compliance with treatment monitoring and cure verification activities by Malaria Control Program professionals.

Method: This is an evaluation research carried out through systematic observation, with the aid of a Likert-type scale form, adopting a numerical score to assess the fulfillment of activities. Data collection was carried out in the Amazonian municipality of Cruzeiro do Sul in Acre State.

[Evaluation of tuberculosis control actions in a large Brazilian municipality].

Objective: To evaluate tuberculosis control actions in one large Brazilian municipality.

Materials And Methods: Quantitative, cross-sectional study, with a population (N=137) of patients with tuberculosis notified in the Sistema de Informação de Agravos e Notificação (Brazilian Case Registry Database). The final sample (n = 75) was obtained based on inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Vulnerabilities and clinical manifestations in scorpion envenomations in Santarém, Pará, Brazil: a qualitative study.

Objective: To describe elements of vulnerabilities and clinical manifestations of the victims of scorpionism in Santarem-Pará.

Method: Quantitative and qualitative study with a theoretical framework of Twenty-eight patients stung by scorpions were interviewed by applying a semi-structured instrument. Data were analyzed according to the technique of discourse analysis.

Social incentives for adherence to tuberculosis treatment.

Objective: To analyze the influence of social incentives for adherence to tuberculosis (TB) treatment.

Method: Qualitative study, in which 26 primary health care professionals of São Paulo were interviewed in 2015.Their testimonies were submitted to the speech analysis technique.

Being a first-time father. Their experiences and meanings: A Qualitative Systematic Review.

Introduction: Becoming a first-time father is an important change in the life of men and families. Studies on the subject show that these kinds of changes have the power to put life into perspective. Being an involved father has a deep meaning for the child and the family.

The concept of vulnerability applied to Healthcare-associated Infections.

Objective: To discuss the potentialities of using the concept of vulnerability to support measures for preventing and controlling healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).

Methods: This theoretical study was conducted in steps: 1) presentation of markers that frame the concept of vulnerability; 2) presentation of the characteristics of the health events to which the concept of vulnerability is intended to be applied; 3) identification of research gaps that could be potentially filled by using the concept of vulnerability; 4) identification of the potentialities of using the concept of vulnerability to deal with HAIs.

Results: Proposal of a framework for analyzing HAIs from a vulnerability perspective, including the individual and collective dimensions.

Representations on adherence to the treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis.

Objective: To identify representations regarding adherence to the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis from the perspective of patients who were discharged upon being cured.

Method: A qualitative study with patients who completed the drug treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in São Paulo. Social Determination was used to interpret the health-disease process, and the testimonies were analyzed according to dialectical hermeneutics and the discourse analysis technique.

Tuberculosis control from the perspective of health professionals working in street clinics.

Purpose: to present the opinion of professionals about street dwellers undergoing treatment of tuberculosis and identify strategies of control of tuberculosis in this population.

Method: an exploratory and descriptive study involving 17 health professionals working in street clinics. A semi-structured study composed of closed questions and a guiding question.

Women's experiences of induced abortion resulting from unplanned pregnancy: a qualitative systematic review protocol.

The objective of this review is to synthesize qualitative evidence on the experiences of women undergoing an induced abortion resulting from an unplanned pregnancy.More specifically, the review question is: how do women experience induced abortions resulting from an unplanned pregnancy?

Nursing in Collective Health: reinterpretation of objective reality by the praxis action.

Objective: To discuss the phase of reinterpretation of objective reality of the Theory of Praxis Intervention of Nursing in Collective Health (Tipesc), in search of the praxis that it promotes.

Method: Analysis of interventions in projects that are based on Tipesc and its results, since the 1990s.

Results: Developed and implemented projects show that praxis is the way to achieve the aimed changes.

Patients' perception regarding the influence of individual and social vulnerabilities on the adherence to tuberculosis treatment: a qualitative study.

Background: Tuberculosis remains an important disease which mainly affects the majority of vulnerable individuals in society, who are subjected to poor living conditions and difficulties to access the services of public health. Under these circumstances, the present study aims to understand patients' perception in relation to the influence of individual and social vulnerabilities on the adherence to tuberculosis treatment.

Methods: A qualitative descriptive cross sectional study was conducted in one large municipality at the state of Paraíba, Northeast of Brazil.

Mortality among children under the age of one: analysis of cases after discharge from maternity.

Objective: To analyze infant death after discharge from maternity in the time period between 2000 and 2013.

Method: A cross-sectional retrospective quantitative study in a municipality northward in the state of Paraná. Data were analyzed using the SPSS®, and were subjected to Chi-square test, logistical regression, 95% confidence interval, and a significance level of p <0.

Vulnerabilities in snakebites in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Objective: To describe elements of vulnerability of victims of snakebite.

Methods: This qualitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study had, as theoretical framework, the concept of vulnerability in individual, social, and programmatic dimensions. We interviewed 21 patients admitted into a hospital specialized in the care of accidents caused by venomous animals.

Occurrence of tuberculosis cases in Crato, Ceará, from 2002 to 2011: a spatial analisys of specific standards.

Objective: to analyze the spatial distribution of tuberculosis in Crato, Ceará, Brazil, from 2002 to 2011, aiming to check for a point pattern.

Methods: This is an ecological, temporal trend and hybrid design study, with a quantitative approach. A total of 261 cases of tuberculosis were geo-referenced and 20 (7.

"Health for All" in England and Brazil?

This article discusses the achievements and challenges that England and Brazil face in relation to their capacity to address inequalities in health through health promotion and public health policies. Using secondary data (policy texts and related documents), this article contextualizes, explains, and critically appraises health promotion and public health efforts for the reduction of inequalities in health in the 2 countries. A historic documentary analysis was undertaken, with hermeneutics as the methodological framework.