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Background: Cervical cancer is a serious public health problem in Brazil and around the world. Its screening through the Pap smear screening is crucial for prevention and early detection. Objective: The objective of the study was to evaluate the Pap smear ratio in the regions of the State of Rio Grande do Norte from 2008 to 2014, and to describe the regions with lower and higher screening for cervical cancer according to the space. Methods: It is a quantitative, retrospective, descriptive and cross-sectional study that used secondary data from SISCOLO/DATASUS. The sample was composed by the 167 municipalities of the State of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil, divided by the eight regions of that State. The results were expressed in absolute and relative frequencies, the differences between means were analyzed by the T student tests, in which significant differences were considered when p<0.05. The mapping of results was done through the TabWin program 32. Conclusion: The average ratio of Pap smear varied considerably between the regions of the State in the years 2008 to 2014. There was decrease in the average of the ratio between the years 2008 and 2014, especially in the metropolitan region. Regarding the space, it was seen that most of the municipalities with the lower ratio are located at the ends of the map. Knowing the cytopathological ratio indicator in the regions of the State is fundamental for the management of health in that State, in order to better qualify practitioners and to establish specific goals for the evaluation of coverage of cervical cancer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims at presenting and discussing a methodology for family evaluation in a perspective of the Single Session Work which is based on a single intervention and is destined to attend the adolescent in conflict with the law. Family evaluation comprised the following objectives: to raise psychosocial information that could enable a better understanding of the characteristics of the clientele; to understand the family paradigm, identifying the elements related to the emergence of the present crisis, understanding by crisis the involvement of the adolescent with Justice; to encourage the families to establish new paradigms, capable of responding to the crisis. We believe that this methodology can be useful in the judicial context with this population of adolescents who are under socioeducative measures and do not present demands for change. We recognize the method's potential to generate information, to rescue parental bonds and to signify the delinquent act, once it is a punctual critical intervention which reactivates the potentialities and the creativity both of the family and of the technical team. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]