Objective: analyze the prenatal nursing consultation from the perspectives of pregnant women and nurses. Method: qualitative and descriptive study, involving 20 pregnant women and four nurses, at a primary health care service located in the city of São Luís/Maranhão (Brazil). The data were collected through semistructured interviews, participant observation and a focus group and analyzed based on the premises of thematic analysis. Results: the pregnant women expressed their satisfaction with the physical examination, highlighting that the welcoming. Complaints were made on the nurses’ technical competence, specifically regarding counseling on urinary tract infection. Some facilities were highlighted after the implementation of the Estratégia Rede Cegonha, mainly in the scheduling of appointments. The following difficulties were mentioned: lack of some prescribed drugs and long terms for carrying out and receiving preventive examinations. Conclusion: the pregnant women assessed the nursing consultation as very good, but they tend to attribute the logistic difficulties at the Health Center (lack of inputs) and even the forwarding to the medical professional (prescription of drugs to obtain outside the Health Center) to the nurses. Based on the research, relevant points could be identified that can influence positive criticism against the nursing consultation, as it constitutes more than half of clinical prenatal care in Brazil and can also change the conditions sensitive to hospitalization in primary care.

Objective: To analyze the communication of a child’s death and the grief support provided to the women during puerperium.Methods: This is a qualitative study performed at a capital of the Northeast region of Brazil. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 15 women, whose children died from July 2012 to July 2014. The interviews contained questions about the child’s death and the grieving process. The content analysis was performed with a thematic approach.Results: The women expressed the suffering and the anguish of the loss of a child, sometimes aggravated by the way in which the news of death was delivered, and by the lack of support offered in the coping process. Two empirical categories were found: receiving the news of death and going back home empty-handed. The health care teams are not prepared to deliver bad news, nor to give support to women who lose a newborn child. According to the women, the support received from the family and religion helped them in the grieving process.Conclusions: The results indicate the need for professional qualification for the delivery of bad news and for grief support. They also showed the need for institutional policies that offer support to the professionals. Besides, the articulation with the primary health care team is imperative for the continuity of care.

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Climate can modulate human health at large spatial scales, but the influence of global, regional, and local environments remains poorly understood, especially for neglected diseases, such as mycoses. In this work, we present the correlation between climatic variables and hospitalizations for mycoses in Brazilian state capitals, evaluating the period of 2008 to 2016 at different time scales. The results indicate that climate modulates the hospitalizations for mycoses differently at annual and monthly time scales, with minimum temperature as a key climatic variable during periods of high prevalence in the 10 Brazilian capitals with the highest hospitalizations for mycoses rates. The greatest number of hospitalizations coincided with La Niña events, while a reduction was observed during El Niño events, thereby demonstrating the influence of the Pacific Interdecadal Climate Oscillation on the prevalence of mycoses in Brazil. At a regional scale, the mycoses burden in Brazil appears to respond differently to local and global climatic drivers.

Resumo A Constituição Federal de 1988 ampliou as atribuições do Ministério Público e possibilitou a participação popular por meio de conselhos gestores na construção de políticas públicas e na efetivação do controle social. Realizou-se uma revisão sistemática da literatura com o intuito de conhecer o panorama nacional sobre a interação entre o Ministério Público e os Conselhos de Saúde e a importância desse relacionamento para o fortalecimento do controle social no Sistema Único de Saúde, buscando refletir criticamente sobre a atuação do Ministério Público para o bom funcionamento desses instrumentos democráticos de poder. Consultaram-se as bases: PubMed, BVS, Periódicos CAPES e BDTD. Para a composição da amostra de 17 artigos e dissertações, selecionados entre 2006 e 2015, foram associados os descritores: Ministério Público, Controle Social, Participação Popular e Conselhos de Saúde. A análise dos resultados demonstra que existe diálogo entre Ministério Público e Conselhos de Saúde, e ele traz benefícios recíprocos que são imprescindíveis para o fortalecimento e efetivação do controle social no SUS. Na área da saúde, a atuação do Ministério Público sobre a matriz resolutiva e extrajudicial estimula a participação popular e a superação das deficiências enfrentadas pelos Conselhos de Saúde.