Ecosystem approaches to human health Abordagens ecossistêmicas à saúde humana

Interactions between global processes and local health problems. A human ecology approach to health among indigenous groups in the Amazon Interações entre processos globais e problemas de saúde locais: uma abordagem ecossistêmica à saúde de grupos indígenas na Amazônia

This article deals with methodological issues and how to link global processes – social and ecological – with environmental changes and human health in local communities. The discussion concerns how interdisciplinary approaches can help us find tools to develop new knowledge. Scientific knowledge and local knowledge are not seen as opposite epistemological forms, but as socially and culturally ...

Agrotóxicos E Saúde Humana: Contribuição Dos Profissionais Do Campo Da Saúde Agrotóxicos Y Salud Humana: Contribución De Los Profesionales De La Salud

RESUMEN Enfocase la producción científica de los profesionales de la salud, en especial de las enfermeras, sobre el tema agrotóxico y salud humana. El ensayo agrupa y muestra informaciones a través de la investigación bibliográfica, con el objetivo de reconocer la contribución de cada autor y la utilidad para el campo de la salud humana. Fueron encontrados 32 artículos de investigación, publica...

A formação de profissionais para a atenção integral à saúde do idoso: a experiência interdisciplinar do NAI - UNATI/UERJ Training professionals for delivering ingreated health care to the aged: the interdisciplinary experience of NAI - UNATI/UERJ

A Vigilância Na Atenção Básica À Saúde: Perspectivas Para O Alcance Da Vigilância À Saúde La Vigilancia En La Atención Basica a La Salud: Perspectivas Para El Alcance De La Vigilancia En Salud

The Surveillance in Health is constituted as an Assistance Model with potential to reorganize the working processes. This study was developed to identify and analyze surveillance practices in the Primary Health Care field, in a region of São Paulo City-Brazil. Interviews were performed with 14 individual, from February to April 2006: health workers and administrators who had been operating in t...

Understanding the Health Effects of Soyfoods and Unfair Characterization of Promotional Efforts by the Soyfood Industry Entendendo os efeitos de alimentos à base de soja à saúde e esforços promocionais injustamente caracterizados da indústria de soja

In her discussion of the literature, Dr. Azevedo fails to differentiate human from non-human research and omits relevant research. For example, in commenting about isofl avones causing thyroid dysfunction, a 1991 article published in Japanese is cited but not a 2006 review8 that evaluated this study along with 13 other clinical trials, nor a subsequently published 3-year trial,4 both of which d...