Health care workers and researchers are increasingly recognizing the religiosity/spirituality (R/S) great dimension in health.

Background: Estimative demonstrate about 6% of the 20 million people needing palliative care at the end of their life are less than 15 years old. Despite of that, researchers reported several areas of parent dissatisfaction with care including confusing, inadequate, or uncaring communications with clinicians regarding treatment or prognosis of the child's end of life.Objective: Here we show that about 90% of the families that have a child or an adolescent passing through a situation that needs Palliative Sedation think that this process was necessary to relieve the suffering of the patient. Results:In several reports, parents of terminally ill children describe their perceptions of uncaring and insufficient communication from health care professionals and link that communication with their own lingering regrets and emotional distress. Conclusion:There is the necessity to better capacity the supportive and care team, in order to diminish guilty and grieve feelings, and to provide courses to the care team that can develop the communication process among them and the family.

Suicide is a serious public health problem worldwide in which they act influences multifactorial. We seek to clarify how social networks act on suicidal behavior. In this context, we conclude that the way in social networks interact with the risk factors determining how it can intervene in individual.

Despite advances in cancer treatments and improved prognosis, the number of deaths from the disease is high in the world. In Brazil, cancer is the second leading cause of death among children and adolescents, forcing family members, patients and professionals to deal with the issues of human finitude. The multidisciplinary team considers the discussions at the end of life as a difficult task to be performed on pediatric patients. The family is essential to overcome the communication barriers, acting as liaison between the multidisciplinary team and the patient. Children should be invited to participate in the decisionmaking process and their wishes should be honored at the end of life. Professionals should to be able to meet the physical, psychosocial, spiritual, social and cultural rights of patients and families. Discussions at the end of life with pediatric patients are key to promoting a "good death", however there are few studies that address this issue.

background:Alcoholism is one of the main public health problems in the world. Thereby, there are important consequences related to this issue.Objective: It was realized a systematic review of articles on the vulnerability factors for alcoholism, as well as possible treatments for this disorder.