Pós Post treatment in Leprosy: a review about quality of life and cure concept ABSTRACTThe fragility of access to care, stigma and misinformation makes the post treatment in Leprosy cornered for affected. OBJECT: To explore the post treatment in Leprosy seeking more whole shares to holders and expansion of the concept of cure. METHODS: Search in databases: BVS, SCIELO, PUBMED, LILACS, BIREME and google scholar. The used terms were: leprosy, post-high, sequela, stigma, quality of life. RESULTS: Were selected 44 articles, dating from 1995 to 2012. The need for specific policies to address in patients who were discharged after cure was observed. It is demonstrated negative influence on quality of life (QOL) by socio-cultural aspects surrounding the disease, as well as by physical deformities. CONCLUSIONS: The adoption of specific interventions to the population post treatment in Leprosy is essential to the accomplishment of one of the guiding principles of the Health System, the integrality.

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Objectives: to analyze the knowledge of caregivers and the factors associated with neuropsychomotor development in children. Methods: a cross-sectional study, with a quantitative approach, was conducted with 220 child-caregiver binomials attended in the public health services of the municipality of Parnaíba, State of Piauí. The study used the “Denver Test II” and the “Inventory of Child Development Knowledge”. Results: the study classified 197 children with natural development and 23 with suspicious development. Caregivers with a higher level of knowledge about child development were associated with children with better development. The study considered caregiver knowledge, gestational age, and exclusive breastfeeding as protective factors for appropriate neuropsychomotor development when used the regression model. Conclusions: actions aimed at indicators that presented positive associations must be implemented to improve child development, such as educational activities to increase the level of knowledge of caregivers, improvement of prenatal monitoring, and encouragement of breastfeeding.

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As desordens causadas pela Diabetes Mellitus (DM) se manifestam na cavidade bucal, alteram os processos de cicatrização e imunológicos, aumentam a susceptibilidade às infecções e, consequentemente, podem afetar a qualidade de vida desses indivíduos. A presente pesquisa teve como objetivo avaliar a prevalência e o impacto das manifestações bucais na qualidade de vida dos indivíduos com Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2 e indivíduos sem DM. Seu delineamento se caracterizou como uma pesquisa clínica observacional e transversal, na qual incluiu-se 249 indivíduos com DM, de ambos os sexos e com idades a partir dos 18 anos e 194 indivíduos sem DM, de ambos os sexos, com idades entre os 41 e 70 anos. Todos os participantes foram submetidos às perguntas dos questionários sóciodemográfico e comportamental e OHIP-14, bem como, à avaliação da condição clínica bucal. Os resultados desta investigação, revelaram uma diferença (p<0,05) entre os grupos, para as variáveis manifestações bucais e motivo da última consulta no dentista. Com relação ao impacto na qualidade de vida relacionado a saúde bucal, observou-se diferença entre os grupos (p<0,0001), para todas as dimensões do OHIP. Estes achados sugerem que em indivíduos com DM há um maior risco de desenvolvimento de inflamação gengival, recessão gengival, perdas dentárias precoces, xerostomia, dor ou ardência bucal, cárie dental, candidíase bucal, hiperplasia papilar inflamatória e queilite angular, com uma maior tendência de impacto negativo sobre a Qualidade de Vida, dos mesmos.