High prevalences of violence show the magnitude of vulnerability and aggressions committed against women in relationships with intimate partners.

Resumo O objetivo do trabalho foi analisar a situação da descentralização do Sistema

Objective: To analyze the occurrence of the phenomenon of physical violence within intimate and affective relationships involving women aged 15 to 49 years living in an economically vulnerable area of the Federal District. Method: Cross-sectional study in a random sample and the ecological model. We used chi-square test, significance level (5%), odds ratios (OR) adjusted and confidence interval (95%). Results: 58.6% of women suffered some kind of physical violence throughout life of which only 5.8% sought health care. Drug use (OR 14:27, CI 1.73-117.37) and increased control of behavior by the partner (OR 13.39, CI 4.60-38.99) had the highest odds ratio for physical violence against women. Conclusion: The high prevalence of use of force in intimate relationships suggests the need for an investigation of abuses of power in intimate and affective relationships of women attended by nurse and practitioners of the health team.

IntroductionConditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have been largely used in the world during the past decades, since they are known for enhancing children’s human development and promoting social inclusion for the most deprived groups. In other words, CCTs seek to create life chances for children to overcome poverty and exclusion, thus reducing inequality of opportunity. The main goal of the present article is to identify studies capable of showing if CCTs create equality of opportunity in health for children in low and middle-income countries.MethodologyComprehensive literature searches were conducted in the Academic Search Complete (EBSCO), PubMed/Medline, Scopus and Web of Science electronic bibliographic databases. Relevant studies were searched using the combination of key words (either based on Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms or free text terms) related to conditional cash transfers, child health and equality of opportunity. An integrative research review was conducted on 17 quantitative studies.ResultsThe effects of CCTs on children’s health outcomes related to Social Health Determinants were mostly positive for immunization rates or vaccination coverage and for improvements in child morbidity. Nevertheless, the effects of CCTs were mixed for the child mortality indicators and biochemical or biometric health outcomes.ConclusionsThe present literature review identified five CCTs that provided evidence regarding the creation of health opportunities for children under 5 years old. Nevertheless, cash transfers alone or the use of conditions may not be able to mitigate poverty and health inequalities in the presence of poor health services.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12939-017-0647-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

Marcadores da autopercepção positiva de saúde de pessoas idosas no Brasil Positive self-perceived health markers in the older adult population in Brazil