Revista de saúde pública
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Revista de saúde pública · Dec 2007
Biography Historical Article[Oswaldo Paulo Forattini: epidemiologist, entomologist and humanist].
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To evaluate the association between cohesion, adaptability and mental risk in families, physical violence against women and the use of drugs. ⋯ Both the instability caused by a lack of family unity and the use of drugs significantly affect family functioning and may give rise to conflict and domestic violence.
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The study had the objective of analyzing the notion of vulnerability that is used by bioethics to debate research involving human beings today, from reflections on biopolitics in contemporary culture. For this, the starting point was Giorgio Agamben's reading of Foucault's model of power (Sovereignty and Biopolitics), with the aim of subsequently analyzing the notion of bare life: "life without any value". If the devices of power in modern democracies conjoin biopolitical strategies with the emergence of the strength of sovereign power that transforms life into bare life, in fact bioethics must be an instrument for protecting people who have become vulnerable. Nevertheless, beyond the territory of the rule of law, bioethics must also penetrate the undifferentiated zones where sovereignty and techniques become mixed, disrespecting the frontiers of biopolitics and questioning the condition of vulnerability itself.
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Revista de saúde pública · Sep 2007
[Recent contribution of the World Health Organization to control childhood tuberculosis].
The article comments the pioneer and recent publication of the World Health Organization called "Guidance for National Tuberculosis Programmes on the Management of Childhood Tuberculosis in Children", aiming at spreading interesting aspects on the practice of health professionals. A parallel between Latin America and the African continent is established, concerning the co-infection TB-HIV and childhood tuberculosis.
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Revista de saúde pública · Sep 2007
Historical Article[Multiresistant tuberculosis in Brazil: history and control].
The article aimed at assessing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis control in Brazil, based on the experiences of reference institutions, and the most relevant studies carried out to determine local and national resistance rates. Control measures and the current situation of treatment and diagnoses after the implementation of the national guidelines, which were revised in 2004, are considered. ⋯ From its outcomes, a regimen to treat all cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis was validated and adopted. Government measures enabled the implementation of a surveillance system, whose outcomes are also commented.