On the continuum of maternal health care, two extreme situations exist: too little, too late
(TLTL) and too much, too soon (TMTS). TLTL describes care with inadequate resources …

In the past three decades, Brazil has undergone rapid changes in major social determinants
of health and in the organisation of health services. In this report, we examine how these …

Este artigo avaliou o uso das boas práticas (alimentação, deambulação, uso de métodos
não farmacológicos para alívio da dor e de partograma) e de intervenções obstétricas na …

A methodology is established to correlate shifts of test structure device parameters, due to
device degradation or process variation, to circuit operation throughout the product lifetime …

Introduction: Smoking during pregnancy may negatively impact newborn birth weight. This
study investigates the relationship between maternal active smoking during pregnancy and …

Este texto recupera as origens do termo humanização do parto, o reconhecimento da sua
assistência ao parto como evento desumanizante, a crítica técnica à assistência, o …

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to describe the unequal distribution in the
performance of cesarean section delivery (CS) in the world and the resource-use …

Background Caesarean section rates in Brazil have been steadily increasing. In 2009, for
the first time, the number of children born by this type of procedure was greater than the …

Objective: To use publicly available secondary data to assess the impact of Brazil's Family
Health Program on state level infant mortality rates (IMR) during the 1990s. Design …

A persistência de desfechos perinatais negativos no Município do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil,
sugere problemas na qualidade da assistência pré-natal. A última investigação realizada …