Introduction: Overweight and obesity in childhood and adolescence are important public health problems. In this context, the school has been identified as a favorable environment for carrying out health education programs. The Health at School Program and its important performance stand out. Thus, considering these discussions, they ask: How are the actions developed by the Health at School Program, focused on nutrition, being implemented? Objective: Analyze the teenager monitoring in the School Health Program (PSE in Brazil) opposite actions to the nutritional aspects of adolescents. Methods: This is a descriptive, qualitative study in Juazeiro municipality North-Ce, with the subject 18 nurses of the Family Health Strategy (FHS) inserted in the PES that municipality. Results: Nurses have limited assistance in the face of food practices, which implies in its operations; report having difficulty performing their actions outside the conventional health units and focus on strategies for a food menu. Conclusion: The monitoring of adolescents in the School Health Program ahead nutritional value is still limited to preventive practices involving specific actions, limited to a Sfood education focused on the health problem and not the needs of adolescents.
Introduction: Dengue is considered a disease of great epidemiological impact, that occurs mainly in tropical and subtropical countries. In Brazil, it has shown an increase in all regions of the country, with the highest incidence in the Southeast and Midwest regions. Objective:To describe the practical experience of carrying out dengue control workshops to promote intersectoral responsibility and popular participation. Methods:Descriptive study, as a reporting experience, developed by surveillance in Health Care in the Basic Attention for the Dengue Control, from Crato, in state of Ceará, Brazil. It was carried out from April to November 2014, in areas with higher building infestation rate. During this period, many actions were held, such as: situational diagnosis of the most affected areas with dengue in the municipality; meetings and workshops, preparing and implementing a local action plan, which included thirteen teams of health family, with community members and other services.Results: Five workshops were held with community and intersectoral participation. Actions with active focus searching were carried out on various community contexts, by choosing the D-Day, doing the spot spraying; health communication through posters and sound
Introduction: Innovation in education should be done from the context and the factors that interfere in the construction and understanding of the curriculum. In the scope of nursing, teaching has undergone great changes in educational activities due to the demands of the capitalist world. Objective: To analyze the curriculum advances, which are announced as innovative educational projects aiming vocational training in nursing in Brazil. Methods: This is an integrative review of literature on curricular innovations and training of nursing students. The bibliographic survey was performed in the databases of Lilacs and Medline/PubMed using the following keywords: higher education, degree programs in Nursing and curriculum. Results: We found seven articles that addressed on the profile and training of professional nurses and curriculum changes in the undergraduate course. It became evident that the curricular changes of course still happen gradually, and reflect political moments which often are not in line with the current health model conjecture. Conclusion: Despite the curricular changes in nursing that happened due to socio-political movements, have not yet produced changes in sectIon: MedIcal educatIon
Lumbar hernia is a disease that presents unsual and difficult diagnosis. It is most prevalent in males and the elderly. It is presented the case of a 70-year-old male patient with previous trauma in the lumbar region 30 years ago and since then presented as a tumor in that region. He asked for a medical help and, initially, his case was diagnosed as a lipoma, but then Grynfeltt's hernia was identified and properly repaired. Keywords: Lumbar hernia; Grynfeltt hernia; superior lumbar hernia
Introduction:The Achilles tendon is the largest and most resistant tendon of the human body and the incidence of spontaneous rupture has increased in recent decades, especially because of the appearance and wide use of quinolones, which use is associated with this pathology.Objective: Case report of case of spontaneous rupture of the Achilles tendon in patients without predisposing risk factors. Method: case report based on the records of the patient and search in literature. Discussion:Spontaneous rupture of the Achilles tendon is more common in men aged between 30 and 50 years old and has an incidence of 1:100,000 in the general population. However, there is a rare entity, the spontaneous rupture of the Achilles tendon (RETA), which it is due to chronic inflammation of the tendon. Conclusion:Spontaneous rupture of the Achilles tendon is a rare entity, but should be suspected in patients who present acute pain condition or maybe worsened chronic pain, particularly when associated with the chronic use of corticosteroids or quinolones, or any of the cited predisposing factors.
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