[Access to diagnosis of tuberculosis in Brazilian medium-sized municipality].

Objetivo: Evaluating access to tuberculosis diagnosis, from the perspective of patients.

Methods: Cross-sectional study with 108 tuberculosis patients. Data were collected using the brazilian instrument Primary Care Assessment Tool - PCAT-Brazil, adapted for attention to tuberculosis, including socio-economic and demographic indicators, location of diagnosis and diagnostic access tuberculosis.

Puerperae bonding with their children and labor experiences.

Objectives: To analyze the degree of bonding of puerperae with their babies, both in isolation and associated with experiences during and after labor.

Methods: A cross-sectional study carried out among 200 puerperae in São José do Rio Preto, Brazil. To evaluate the mother-child bond, we used the Mother-to-Infant Bonding Scale (MIBS).

Associated factors to urinary incontinence in women undergoing urodynamic testing.

Objective: Analyzing factors associated with urinary incontinence (UI) among women submitted to urodynamic testing.

Method: A cross-sectional study of 150 women attended at a urological center. Data were analyzed using univariate and multivariate statistics.

"Dual causation accident": a third type of work-related accident and its importance for occupational health surveillance.

The scope of this study is to contribute to the improvement of Occupational Health Surveillance in the Unified Health System (UHS), through the recognition and inclusion of a third type of work-related accident in the current Brazilian legislation classification: the dual causation accident. This classification aims at facilitating the establishment of a causal connection, thus broadening the understanding of the relationship between work process and the production of diseases. It also aims at improving legal rules to protect the health of workers.

[Costs and consumption of material resources in pediatric intensive and semi-intensive care units].

Cost management of hospital material resources is a trendy research topic, especially in specialized health units. Nurses are pointed out as the main managers for costs and consumption of hospital materials resources. This study aimed to characterize Pediatric Intensive and Semi-Intensive Care Units of a teaching hospital and investigate costs and consumption of material resources used to treat patients admitted to these units.

[Health and quality of life of medical residents].

Objective: This article highlights the relationship between health and quality of life among the resident medical staff.

Methods: A review was carried out to analyze the content of the relationship under study. Sources for this search were the Virtual Health Library (VHL), by BIREME (Centro Latino-American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information), the Electronic databases Medline (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System On-Line) Lilacs (Literatura Latino-American and Caribbean Health Sciences), SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) and the email address scholar.

[Comparative study of two classification criteria used in the Family Health Program to prioritize treatment of dental caries in 5-to-12 year-old children].

The objective of this study was to evaluate two classification criteria used to prioritize treatment of dental caries under the Brazilian Family Health Program. The study was held in Ipiguá, São Paulo State, and included 538 five-to-twelve-year-old children. The children underwent an oral examination and assessment of two classification criteria in order to prioritize restorative dental treatment.

Recurrent pneumonia caused by genetic immunodeficiency: a prophylactic and rehabilitative approach.

Recurrent infections are a consequence of a series of genetic diseases characterized by deficiency in the immunological response. One of these diseases is the agammaglobulinemia, which is characterized by the basic defect in the maturation of lymphocytes B. The carrier of this kind of immunodeficiency, which is linked to the X (XLA) chromosome, has had primary pneumonias that have evolved into secondary pneumonias (chronic lungs with sequelae) after the third or fourth year of life.

[Nursing absenteeism: experience with workers at a teaching hospital].

The nursing work conditions are surrounded by physical and chemical risks that result in a high number of absences as well as leaves. The purpose of this study was to characterize the absences of nursing workers from a University Hospital located in the city of São José do Rio Preto-SP during the year of 1999. This is a census epidemiological investigation.

[The use of intravenous oxytocin in deliveries nursing assistance].

This paper emphasizes the importance of specialized nursing assistance to the woman in labor when contractions are stimulated by infusion containing oxytocin. The author describes the procedures recommended in the litterature for the treatment and for control of mother and child conditions during the firts phase of delivery.