Twenty-five years of the AIDS epidemic in Brazil: principal epidemiological findings, 1980-2005.

abstract：:Air pollution is a widely recognized hazard to human health. In industrial cities the emission of toxic gases and particulate matter into the atmosphere compounds the pollution problem caused by circulation of vehicles, often creating hazardous public health situations. The goal of this study was to analyze patterns i...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Peiter P,Tobar C

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focused on elderly members of community groups, specifically their physical, social, psychological, and economic conditions. A descriptive cross-sectional study included 197 individuals, using the modified Brazilian Old Age Schedule, with questions on physical health, medical services, activities of daily l...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Borges PL,Bretas RP,Azevedo SF,Barbosa JM

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The obesity epidemic is a global phenomenon that does not respect geographic or socio-demographic boundaries. Thus, research on factors related to the obesity epidemic has focused on social and economic characteristics of modern societies. This article discusses obesity in Spain and trends in several associated factor...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Gutiérrez-Fisac JL,Regidor E,López García E,Banegas Banegas JR,Rodríguez Artalejo F

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is based on a medical audit of the Vila Municipal Health Clinic, Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul. We collected data from family medical records in 1992,1993, and 1994. The data concerned the Women's Integral Health Care Program. We collected information on age, visits for medical and non-medical reasons, blood p...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Costa JSD,Roman VR,Luz RM,Manzolli PP,Correa P,Recuero LF

更新日期：1998-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted in a rural area endemic for schistosomiasis in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The objective was to determine the relationship between an environmental and health education program for schistosomiasis, implemented for teachers and students from the state secondary school in the village of Boa União, and...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Gazzinelli MF,Gazzinelli A,Santos RV,Gonçalves LA

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The few studies on health and nutrition in indigenous peoples in Northeast Brazil point to some differences with indigenous peoples in the North and Central of the country. This study estimated the prevalence rates and risk of overweight and excess weight in Xukuru children in the village of Ororubá, Pernambuco State,...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Fávaro TR,Ferreira AA,Cunha GMD,Coimbra CEA Jr

更新日期：2019-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Different factors have been identified as influencing drug prescribers. Some studies emphasize the role played by sources of information available to physicians. Reports have been published on the influence of marketing strategies on these health professionals. Such strategies include advertisements in medical journal...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Barros JA

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to assess dietary patterns in Brazilian children and factors associated with better diet. The authors used data for 2,477 children 6 to 36 months of age from the Brazilian National Survey of Demographic and Health in 2006-2007. Diet was assessed and classified using a composite index. T...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Bortolini GA,Vitolo MR,Gubert MB,Santos LM

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify food patterns and eating behaviors among adolescents and to describe the prevalence rates, this study applied the Grade of Membership method to data from a survey on health risk factors among adolescent students in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (N = 1,632). The four profiles generated were: "A" (12.1%) more frequ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Cardoso Lde O,Alves LC,Castro IR,Leite Ida C,Machado CJ

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dyad comprising eye anomalies and congenital heart defects in the same newborn has been proposed as the best sentinel phenotype for the early detection of rubella embryopathy. Time-space birth prevalence distributions of the eye-heart dyad were described in 36 Brazilian hospitals from the Latin-American Collaborat...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Orioli IM,Camelo JS,Rittler M,Castilla EE

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in the Japreira indigenous community, Venezuela, and its relationship to age and gender. An intentional, non-probabilistic sample of 149 individuals was selected from a total of 300. All samples were studied for the presence of ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Monsalve-Castillo F,Echevarría JM,Atencio R,Suárez A,Estévez J,Costa-León L,Montiel P,Molero T,Zambrano M

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mosquitoes are vectors of arboviruses that can cause encephalitis and hemorrhagic fevers in humans. Aedes serratus (Theobald), Aedes scapularis (Rondani) and Psorophora ferox (Von Humboldt) are potential vectors of arboviruses and are abundant in Vale do Ribeira, located in the Atlantic Forest in the southeast of the ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Laporta GZ,Ribeiro MC,Ramos DG,Sallum MA

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to understand how physicians at the largest emergency department in a large Brazilian city orient care for critical patients with suspected brain death and who are potential organ donors. This ethnographic study was conducted in an emergency care hospital, a reference in traumatology in...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Aredes JS,Firmo JOA,Giacomin KC

更新日期：2018-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to identify changes in knowledge and practices learned to prevent dengue fever in two areas of Catanduva, São Paulo State, from 1999 to 2001: a study area and a control area. The study included an initial quantitative survey, qualitative research, a preliminary diagnosis presented to the community to ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Chiaravalloti Neto F,Fiorin AM,Conversani DT,Cesarino MB,Barbosa AA,Dibo MR,Morais MS,Baglini V,Ferraz AA,Rosa RS,Battigaglia M,Cardoso RP Jr

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration and internationalization of health plan companies in Brazil gave them a clearly financial face. Based on the need to understand the health care industry's capital accumulation patterns, the current study examines health plan companies' expansion strategies through the classification of their supply a...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Bahia L,Scheffer M,Tavares LR,Braga IF

更新日期：2016-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The study aimed to estimate prevalence of self-reported arthritis or rheumatism and associated factors. This was a cross-sectional population-based study in Florianopolis, Santa Catarina State, Brazil, with 1,720 adults ranging from 20 to 59 years of age. Presence of self-reported arthritis or rheumatism was analyzed ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Gomes RS,Peres KG

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines region-specific relations between prevalence of protection against sunlight and socio-demographic and behavioral variables in Brazil. Data were derived from a cross-sectional population-based random sample. Information on sunlight exposure was available for a total of 16,999 individuals 15 years ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Szklo AS,Almeida LM,Figueiredo V,Lozana Jde A,Azevedo e Silva Mendonça G,Moura Ld,Szklo M

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focused on the prevalence of interpersonal continuity of care and its determinants. A cross-sectional population-based study was conducted with 3,133 individuals 20 years or older in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. Multivariate analysis used Poisson regression, with the first level representing so...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Rosa Filho LA,Fassa AG,Paniz VM

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Field studies on the morbidity of schistosomiasis mansoni were carried out in some rural endemic areas of Northeastern Brazil during the first semester of 1991. These cross-sectional studies were limited to the assessment of the gradient of clinical forms of the disease. The entire population present in a house-to-hou...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Barbosa FS,Gonçalves JF,Melo MC

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This cross-sectional study investigates the use of health services and associated factors in individuals > or = 14 years of age in Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. 1,954 persons were interviewed in 40 census tracts. One-year prevalence of hospital admissions was 9.4%. Adjusted data analysis showed that hospitalizati...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Garbinato LR,Béria JU,Figueiredo AC,Raymann B,Gigante LP,Palazzo Ldos S,Aerts DR

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The definition of complex chronic health condition (CCHC) is important for identifying children and adolescents occupying pediatric beds in Brazilian hospitals, where they live out their childhood, requiring complex care by multidisciplinary teams in network format both in-hospital and in home care. The current articl...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Moreira MCN,Albernaz LV,Sá MRC,Correia RF,Tanabe RF

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Access to fluoridated water is a known protective factor against dental caries. In 1974, fluoridation of the public water supply became mandatory by law in Brazil, resulting in improved coverage, especially in more developed regions of the country. Coverage increased across the country as a priority under the national...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Alves RX,Fernandes GF,Razzolini MT,Frazão P,Marques RA,Narvai PC

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper analyzes the demographic profile of the Boróro Indians from Mato Grosso State, Brazil, from 1993 to 1996. Data came from annual collection and registration of vital statistics conducted by the health service in three villages (Garças, Meruri, and Morada dos Boróro). The average annual population growth rate...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Souza LG,Pagliaro H,Santos RV

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the working conditions of Chagas' disease patients in the city of Campinas, São Paulo, focusing on two-hundred-fifty patients with steady employment and treated at the University Hospital (HC-FCM/Unicamp): 98% were working-age and 77.6% were men. The origin of the patients reflected the migratory ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Guariento ME,Camilo MV,Camargo AM

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate factors associated with negative self-rated oral health. Elderly subjects from the Brazilian Ministry of Health's oral health survey (2002-2003) who rated their own oral health as bad or very bad were compared to those who rated their oral health as excellent, good, or fair, us...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Martins AM,Barreto SM,Pordeus IA

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No consensus has been reached concerning the definition of criteria and standards for evaluating the decentralization of actions by municipal health surveillance systems. With the aim of developing and validating an objective image for municipal health surveillance that would correspond to an appropriate system for th...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Ferraro AH,Costa EA,Vieira-da-Silva LM

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the 1990s, the development of microelectronics and communication technologies spawned the information technology paradigm, characterized by an intensity of information which, transformed into knowledge and innovation, plays a crucial role for development. In order for this to occur, countries need to build appropri...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Cóser I,Brandão MAF,Raposo NRB,Gonçalves E

更新日期：2018-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The article presents prevalence rates for malnutrition, intestinal parasitic infections, anemia, and iron deficiency in under-five children in a population-based cross-sectional survey performed in the urban area of two counties in the Western Brazilian Amazon, Assis Brasil (n = 200) and Acrelandia (n = 477). Availabl...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Muniz PT,Castro TG,Araújo TS,Nunes NB,da Silva-Nunes M,Hoffmann EH,Ferreira MU,Cardoso MA

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) is a widely used screening instrument. One- and two-factor structures have been identified in some countries. In Brazil, the best factor structure is still unclear. This study aimed at knowing its factorial validity and reliability, and testing the one-factor and two-f...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Gouveia VV,Barbosa GA,Oliveira Andrade Ed,Carneiro MB

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article begins by discussing the concept of social capital and its applications and limitations. Second, it examines these theoretical contributions as approaches actually used by scholars to analyze the disenchantment with the fragile political institutions and citizens' apathy that emerged together with re-demo...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Labra ME

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00