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Objective: To discuss the phenomenon of mediumship in its interface with health, using ethnopsychiatry/ethnopsychology as a theoretical prism of analysis and reflection. Method: Theoretical study, supported by a narrative review of the scientific literature. Results: Studies in the area of religiosity/spirituality (R/S) indicate the importance of this dimension to promote health, but still with little space for the consideration of phenomena such as mediumship, especially with reference to religions of African matrix like umbanda and candomblé.

The Environmental Education is a theme that allows reflections that directly interfere and in our lives and in the formation of critical sense in the process of teaching and learning, in addition, contributing to the change of behavior and attitudes towards the Environment.

Sarcopenia is a prevalent disease in the elderly population and is associated with numerous adverse clinical outcomes, directly influencing on the individual's quality of life. This systematic review describes the prevalence and risk factors associated with sarcopenia in elderly patients. The review was made from a search in the databases LILACS, SciELO, CINAHL, and PubMed.

The financial resources available for infrastructure maintenance and rehabilitation are always limited thus creating a need for efficient resource management and for the ability to predict maintenance actions throughout the infrastructure service period. Service life prediction has assumed a primary role as it allows a more rational use of construction elements and serving as a useful tool in the definition of preventive maintenance plans providing an increase in performance of various building element especially those used in the facades.

The financial resources available for infrastructure maintenance and rehabilitation are always limited thus creating a need for efficient resource management and for the ability to predict maintenance actions throughout the infrastructure service period. Service life prediction has assumed a primary role as it allows a more rational use of construction elements and serving as a useful tool in the definition of preventive maintenance plans providing an increase in performance of various building element especially those used in the facades.

The importance of assessing water quality for human consumption is based on the fact that it is one of the main vehicles for infectious diseases. The objective of this research was to evaluate the quality of water for human consumption through the microbiological characterization of water from open and closed wells of Palmares, Araguatins (TO) settlement. The collections were carried out during the period from 16 to 20 October in two settlement wells. The results obtained were compared with the Ministry of Health Resolution No. 2,914 of 12/12/2011.

Conventional farming system may cause physical and chemical soil degradation. Plant residue retention can be used to improve soil aggregation and chemical properties. However, the effectiveness of plant residue retention in conventional farming (CF) system remains unclear. Therefore, we studied the influence of plant residue retention on the water-stable aggregates, mean weight diameter of water-stable aggregates, bulk density and soil chemical properties.

Studies in several countries have warned on the contamination of fish by heavy metals, especially Pangasius hypophthalmus, farmed in the Mekong river, Vietnam, one of the most polluted rivers in the world, and exported to all countries. Current paper quantifies the concentrations of heavy metals in samples of frozen panga fillets. Risk to human health associated to the consumption of fillets was calculated according to heavy metal levels.

Objective: To describe the profile of adolescents deprived of their liberty and offenses committed in the macroregion of central-south Piauiense. Material and method: Cross-sectional and documentary study, conducted between August / 16 and July / 17. Seventy-six medical records were evaluated, the variables were grouped and analyzed by the Microsoft Excel version 2010 and the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 2010. The program was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Piauí, with opinion number 2.056. 848.

This work has the general objective of analyzing the reflections of the health teams triggered in the phase of the thematic workshops of the primary health care planning process. This is a documentary research of a qualitative nature, carried out in the city of Santa Maria, located in the central region of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. In this process the themes of the workshops proposed by CONASS were developed, which were organized to be presented by six workshops, interspersed with dispersion activities in the territory.