In Argentina, one-third of all employed women, but only 3 per cent of all employed men, are care workers. Their relative pay and working conditions depend not only on applicable labour market regulations (and enforcement) ...

Objective: To analyze prenatal care in the primary care of the Brazilian Unified Health System. Material and Methods: This is a survey cross sectional research with inquiry-type quantitative-qualitative approach. Data ...

"COVID-19 e o cuidado de idosos" oferece diretrizes simples para instituições de longa permanência para idosos (ILPI), sem um novo contexto de pandemia de coronavírus. A publicação fornece recomendações para medidas de ...

This study aims to analyze how Primary Health Care teams mean the Shared Care Plan (PCC) in the Chronic Conditions Care Model (MACC). Thus, it aims to bring the experience, discuss and reflect on the challenges of health ...

The prematurity carries some difficulties for families during the preterm infant hospitalization, as well as, after hospital discharge. In this context, is required a specific knowledge about the preterm biological ...

Background: In Chile, the prevalence of depression is high, constituting one of the main reasons for seeking mental health assistance in institutional settings, but psychologists who are working in primary care report ...

The world has undergone a process of demographic transition, with an increase in the number of elderly people in society. The change in epidemiological settings, combined with social, economic, and family related changes, ...

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has a population of more than 650 million inhabitants (8.5% of the world population), with a cancer incidence of more than 1.4 million new patients and more than 670,000 deaths in 2018. ...

Objective: To evaluate the role of day care centres in the nutritional state of children belonging to a low-income population, comparing the nutritional state of the children in the day care centres with children in the ...