The Birth in Brazil study is the largest national hospital-based survey in Brazil regarding birth practices. Conducted in 2011-2012, it collected information from 266 public and private healthcare facilities and interviewed nearly 24,000 postpartum women. It is also the latest effort to map out how labor and delivery are managed in this county in the 21st century. The journal Reproductive Healt...

Dear Editor, In their interesting article on Collaboration and CoProduction of Knowledge in Healthcare,1 Rycroft-Malone and colleagues make the following point: “there are some general transferable qualities that might be embodied in researchers, such as being: able to wear more than one hat (being generalists), comfortable in the field, tolerant of messiness, a good communicator with different...

The article of Marc Jamoulle shows the importance of the contribution of general practitioners (GPs) in improving the quality and the efficiency of the health systems. Starting from the concept of quaternary prevention for reducing excessive costs in the preventive procedures, he suggests a change of paradigm in every daily activity of the GP in order to have a stronger ethical approach to the ...

Background Mobile health (mHealth) apps are a potential means of empowering patients, especially in the case multimorbidity, which complicates patients’ care needs. Previous studies have shown that general practitioners (GPs) both expectations and concerns regarding use mHealth could impact their willingness to recommend patients. Objective The aim this qualitative study is investigate French G...

A avalanche de cuidados saúde tem seguido um crescendo paradoxal, dificilmente explicável perante a melhoria cultural generalizada das sociedades dos países desenvolvidos que afinal, mais parecem bando fugitivos aterrorizados por tudo e nada ! relação com o corpo parece ser mediada pelo medo só acalma resultados ditos “normais” pois em caso contrário abrem-se largamente as portas overdiagnosis,...

Background Uncertainty surrounds the ethical and legal implications of algorithmic data-driven technologies in mental health context, including characterized as artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep other forms automation. Objective This study aims to survey empirical scholarly literature on application initiatives identify issues that have been raised. Methods We searched for peer-re...

Michael Glick, DMD P revention, health screening, and assessing risk are concepts that lie at the core of medicine and dentistry and affect how all of us practice. In order to apply these concepts effectively, we must be clear in defining them. Prevention can be separated into primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary prevention. Primary prevention usually refers to an attempt to reduce a cl...

The article analyzes literature problems using as a parameter the quaternary prevention concept, introducing guidelines to have good shared decisions that avoid overdiagnosis and overtreatment and improve the quality of life. The author proposes a four-step approach: reliable evidence, awareness about populations profile, independent research analysis, and an understandable format by ordinary p...

The article analyzes literature problems using as a parameter the quaternary prevention concept, introducing guidelines to have good shared decisions that avoid overdiagnosis and overtreatment and improve the quality of life. The author proposes a four-step approach: reliable evidence, awareness about populations profile, independent research analysis, and an understandable format by ordinary p...

the article analyzes literature problems using as a parameter the quaternary prevention concept, introducing guidelines to have good shared decisions that avoid overdiagnosis and overtreatment and improve the quality of life. the author proposes a four-step approach: reliable evidence, awareness about populations profile, independent research analysis, and an understandable format by ordinary p...