Bioengineering in women's health: part I

Abortion and Womens Mental Health

First, the methodological difficulties of these studies, especially due to confusing factors, not always easy to control adequately, such as the heterogeneity of women’s groups evaluated in regards to age, race, social status and religious beliefs; the presence of psychological changes or lack thereof, prior to the abortion of; the desire or lack thereof for the pregnancy; whether a woman can r...

Niaid Womens Health Research (fy 2015-2016)

Challenges to womens reproductive health: maternal mortality

Oral health in Brazil--part I: public oral health policies.

This paper reviews the historical development of public health policies in Brazil and the insertion of oral health in this context. Since 1988, Brazil established a Unified National Health System ("Sistema Unico de Saúde"--SUS), which was conceived to assure access to health actions and services, including oral health. However, a history of lack of access to health services and the health probl...

Child disaster mental health interventions, part I

This review of child disaster mental health intervention studies describes the techniques used in the interventions and the outcomes addressed, and it provides a preliminary evaluation of the field. The interventions reviewed here used a variety of strategies such as cognitive behavioral approaches, exposure and narrative techniques, relaxation, coping skill development, social support, psychoe...