The meaning of the performance of the Family Health Strategy team in a socially vulnerable community

Backes DS, Stem Backes MT, Erdmann AL, Büscher A, Marchiori MT, Koerich MS. The meaning of the performance of the Family Health Strategy team in a socially vulnerable community. Ciência & Saúde Coletiva. 2012;17(5):1151-1157.This study sought to understand the meaning of the performance of a Family Health Strategy team in a socially vulnerable community. Grounded Data Theory was used as a methodological benchmark and the data collection technique consisted of interviews with twenty-five Family Health Strategy professionals between July and December of 2009. Data analysis revealed that the Family Health Strategy can be seen as a facilitator and stimulator of the process of expansion and consolidation of healthcare networks. They represent a new approach in community intervention, by viewing the human being as a multidimensional and singular being, inserted in his/her real context. A new assistential model is essentially being developed by the reorganization of healthcare practices, assisted by the multiplicity of complex relationships, interactions and associations that occur within the social and family context

Labor-associated regulation of prostaglandin E and F synthesis and action in the ovine amnion and cervix

OBJECTIVE: Prostaglandins (PGs) are key regulators of cervical dilatation and membrane breakdown at the onset of labor. PG synthase and receptor expression has been previously documented in uterine tissues; however, mechanisms governing the changes occurring in the cervix and amnion are less well established. The aim of the current study was to determine the level of expression of PG synthetic enzymes and receptors in these tissues in association with induced labor in sheep