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This study aimed to investigate the memory of grandmothers in the care of the umbilical stump, establishing a parallel between scientific and popular knowledge. It is a part of the thesis entitled “I have kept the belly button of all my grandchildren: memory of grandmothers in the care of the umbilical stump”. It is an exploratory study, with a qualitative approach, developed in a municipality of the Brazilian state of Bahia, with 13 grandmothers registered in a coexistence group. We used interviews as information collecting technique, based on Thematic Oral History and Collective Memory.

Introduction: The elderly population has shown significant growth throughout the world, thus increasing the need for a broader view of this population, thus ensuring a response to their real needs.Objective: To know the main themes of scientific research developed in the area of elderly health in the nursing courses of higher education institutions in the city of Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, Brazil.

Introdução: Inovações ocorrem diariamente no setor saúde, contudo a doenças reemergentes como a Hanseníase e a Tuberculose são tidas como enfermidades ainda presentes nos contextos institucionais que despertam o interesse para a identificação precoce e as práticas a serem desempenhadas de modo a alcançar a redução da morbimortalidade. Objetivo: Descrever o perfil clínico-epidemiológico de pacientes portadores de tuberculose e hanseníase atendidos em um município baiano. Metodologia: Trata-se de um estudo descritivo-exploratório, de abordagem quantitativa.

The purpose of this paper study is to examine the most amazing moment of any woman’s life, pregnancy of course, the very aim of it is to provide several modifications and changes in the maternal organism, for consequent physiological adaptations attributed to the hormonal changes necessary for the development of the embryo and fetal growth during the pregnancy period.

The objective of the study is to identify the practices of care for prevention of diabetic foot performed by the nurse. Integrative literature review in the databases: LILACS, SCIELO, BDENF, Cochrane Library and Web of Science. The inclusion of publications was followed by criteria such as: complete and free texts in Portuguese, English and Spanish, published between 2006 and 2019. Productions that did not attend to the guiding question of the study, letters to editors, theses, dissertations and annals, totaling a final sample of 16 articles.

Proteus mirabilis is known human pathogen as a common cause of human urinary tract infection (UTI), nosocomial infection, wound infection and a possible causative agent of outbreaks of gastroenteritis, resulting from the consumption of contaminated food. In this study, we have analyzed bacteria in the chicken meat in selected districts of Kerala, India, using 16S rRNA gene partial sequencing.. 50 Samples of raw chicken meat were collected from slaughterhouses and meat shops in the study area by simple random sampling method.

The present study Aimed to evaluate the effect of coconut oil on rats submitted to ahypercaloric and hyperlipidic diet. It has about 28 male Wistar rats divided into four groups, group I: animals fed a diet hypercaloric; group II: animals treated with the high calorie diet plus coconut oil; group III: animals treated with commercial ration and group IV: animals treated with commercial ration plus coconut oil. The animals Were weighed and had the glycemia Evaluated weekly throughout the experiment until the day of sacrifice.

Objective: Understanding women's knowledge and feelings about gestational syphilis and congenital syphilis and prenatal care in health services. Method: Qualitative approach, with 10 (ten) women, who are accompanying their children in a hospital unit, with a confirmed diagnosis of congenital syphilis. The semi-structured interview was used as a data collection instrument from September to October 2018. Data were analyzed using Bardin's methodology.

Introdução: As quedas em pessoas idosas é um fator de risco para a mortalidade, fatores como o envelhecimento dos órgãos e sistemas e a falta de prevenção fazem dos idosos vítimas fáceis de sofrerem quedas e tal problema agrava a situação de fragilidade e dependência, aumentando assim a institucionalização, podendo ser a causa de mortalidade.

Introduction: Breastfeeding is considered a complex action, and can be influenced by social, historical and political constraints in addition to cultural factors in women’s decision to breastfeed or not and the durability of this practice. Objective: To demonstrate the importance of performing an integrative review on the factors that favor early weaning.