Bioethics, culture and infanticide in Brazilian indigenous communities: the Zuruahá case.

abstract：:For the last fifty years, stomach cancer has become less important in terms of morbidity and mortality in developed countries, but the same pattern has not occurred in Brazil. The main risk factors for this neoplasm are certain diet patterns that became evident through epidemiological studies in various population gro...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Britto AV

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work reports the process and costs of comprehensively implementing two tests to decentralize the diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in an endemic city in Brazil: a rapid test (IT LEISH) and a direct agglutination test (DAT-LPC). The implementation began by training health professionals to perform the tests....

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Assis TS,Guimarães PN,Oliveira E,Peruhype-Magalhães V,Gomes LI,Rabello A

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A methodological approach to infant mortality estimation in Brazil based on vital information provided by Ministry of Health systems is presented. The study evaluated the available data to establish criteria for identifying municipalities with serious data deficiencies, proposing an adequacy index. All municipalities ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Szwarcwald CL,Leal Mdo C,de Andrade CL,Souza PR Jr

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared the perception, knowledge, and use of generic drugs by adults in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil, using two cross-sectional population-based studies from 2002 and 2012. Study outcomes were: (a) prevalence of use of generics; (b) generics as a proportion of all medication; (c) users' percep...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Guttier MC,Silveira MP,Luiza VL,Bertoldi AD

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper's general objective is to evaluate the nutritional adequacy of the food consumed in an Integrated Center of Public Education in the city of Americana, state of Sao Paulo. The data on food consumption in the city of seven to 15 years old was obtained through a recordatory inquiry. To transform the food consum...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： da Silva MV

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes HIV-related behaviors recorded through a questionnaire applied to 570 individuals in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, who were not regular drug users. Mean age was 30.3 years, 51.1 % were male, and most were low-income (59.1%). The HIV seropositive rate was 9.9% (13.1% for males, 6.9% for ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Pechansky F,von Diemen L,Kessler F,De Boni R,Surrat H,Inciardi J

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the main social, economic, biological, and demographic characteristics of children and families who participate or have participated in the Children's Pastoral as compared to the overall urban population of Criciúma (Southern Brazil). A population-based cross-sectional study with a probabilistic s...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Neumann NA,Victora CG,Halpern R,Guimarães PR,Cesar JA

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective was to evaluate the effect of a healthy eating intervention targeting adolescent mothers and maternal grandmothers on compliance with dietary recommendations in the first year of life. This was a randomized clinical trial involving 320 adolescent mothers, their infants, and 169 maternal grandmothers (whe...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Nunes LM,Vigo Á,Oliveira LD,Giugliani ERJ

更新日期：2017-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports on an evaluative study of municipal management of the Brazilian National School Nutrition Program in the largest cities in Santa Catarina State, Brazil. The matrix of indicators included two dimensions: political-organizational, with the sub-dimensions resources, inter-sector action, and social co...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Gabriel CG,Calvo MC,Vasconcelos Fde A,Lacerda JT,Freitas SF,Schmitz Bde A

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to verify the effects of buying television advertised food in schoolchildren eating behaviors. We performed a cross-sectional study with fourth grade students of an elementary education in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. We analyzed anthropometric data, the habit of buying television adver...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Fraga RS,Silva SLR,Santos LCD,Titonele LRO,Carmo ADS

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper analyzes the main advances in health coverage and health services demand in Colombia using the 1997 and 2003 living standards surveys. The study showed an increase in health coverage associated with expansion of the subsidized care system, although a large proportion of the population is still not entitled ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Zambrano A,Ramírez M,Yepes FJ,Guerra JA,Rivera D

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to assess the association between prenatal exposure to air pollutants and low birth weight in a medium-sized city. An ecological study was performed, using live birth data from São José dos Campos, São Paulo State, Brazil. The environmental data were obtained from the São Paul State Environme...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Nascimento LF,Moreira DA

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A historical cohort of children born between January 2000 and December 2002 from low-income families attending a primary health care facility on the periphery of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, was studied in relation to prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding. Analysis was based on a life table focusing on interrup...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Faleiros JJ,Kalil G,Casarin DP,Laque PA Jr,Santos IS

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study begins by briefly situating the development of indexing procedures in the scientific literature, dating to the latter half of the 19th century. Next, taking public health in Latin America as its reference, it analyzes the current use of indexing for the evaluation of scientific production, and thus that of ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Coimbra CE Jr

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of functional incapacity and associated factors. A cross-sectional population-based study included 352 elderly subjects (> or =60 years) in a small Brazilian town. Community-based health workers conducted structured interviews. Functional incapacity was measured by ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Santos KA,Koszuoski R,Dias-da-Costa JS,Pattussi MP

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Brazil, the trade union structure created by authoritarian corporatism in the 1930's began to change when the cycle of the military regime installed in 1964 came to an end. With redemocratization, the trade union movement began to coexist with the organization of pluralistic interests, a process which has influence...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Ribeiro JM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article contends that the distinction between clinical care (illness) and prevention of future disease is essential to the practice of quaternary prevention. The authors argue that the ongoing entanglement of clinical care and prevention transforms healthy into "sick" people through changes in disease classificat...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Tesser CD,Norman AH

更新日期：2016-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates factors associated with non-adherence to continuous drug therapy in individuals 40 years and older. A population-based survey was conducted in Cambé, Paraná State, Brazil. Treatment adherence was assessed with the four-item Morisky et al. medication adherence scale. The study also assessed soci...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Remondi FA,Cabrera MA,Souza RK

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current configuration of indigenous peoples' health in Brazil results from a complex historical trajectory, responsible for major delays for this population segment in the countrywide social advances seen in recent decades, particularly in the fields of health, education, housing, and sanitation. The main focus of...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Carlos EA Jr

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the death causes are understood as a result of morbility process that may have been avoided with different kinds of economic, social and welfare services policies and the advance of scientific and technologic knowledges, there is clearly a structural determinism so that many population social sectors can't reach ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Molina CA,López MV

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article presents gender and age-specific selected anthropometric data for a representative sample of elderly Brazilians in the city of São Paulo. This was a cross-sectional, population-based household survey. A total of 1,894 older adults (men and women, > 60 years) were examined from January to March 2001. Data w...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Barbosa AR,Souza JM,Lebrão ML,Laurenti R,Marucci Mde F

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to identify factors associated with psychological well-being among young people 18 to 24 years of age in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. In a population-based cross-sectional study, 1,621 subjects answered a structured questionnaire on socio-demographic data, religion, employment, and substa...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Souza LD,Maragalhoni Tda C,Quincoses MT,Jansen K,Cruzeiro AL,Ores L,Silva RA,Pinheiro RT

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation (OPR) has shown positive results. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of home or community-based pulmonary rehabilitation (HCPR) in individuals with COPD. This ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Neves LF,Reis MH,Gonçalves TR

更新日期：2016-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the present study was to characterize Giardia duodenalis infection among children living in sub-standard settlement areas in the municipality of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. The cross-sectional epidemiological study included 590 children from 1 to 5 years of age. Data were collected from ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Teixeira JC,Heller L,Barreto ML

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper analyzes the proportion of Brazilian women who have sex with women, considering three time periods. The data are from a national population-based survey from 1998. The proportion of the female population who reported having any same-sex relations during their lifetime decreased from 3% to 1.7% in the previo...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Barbosa RM,Koyama MA

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate anxiety and pain related to dental treatment in children under the age of five years. This cross sectional study was carried out with 2,735 children of both sexes. Socioeconomic data, dental anxiety and dental pain experience, as well as the assessment of the child's oral health s...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Oliveira MM,Colares V

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to identify the median duration of breastfeeding and associated factors in a cohort of 531 infants in two municipalities in the Recôncavo region, Bahia State, Brazil. Breastfeeding duration was estimated by survival analysis and its associations by the Cox multivariate model. Median duration of exclus...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Demétrio F,Pinto Ede J,Assis AM

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent decades an important social movement related to Complementary and Alternative Medicine has been identified worldwide. In Brazil, although homeopathy was recognized as a specialist medical area in 1980, few medical schools offer courses related to it. In a previous study, 176 resident doctors at the Universit...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Barros NF,Fiuza AR

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study objective was to examine differentials in time trends and predictors of deaths assigned to symptoms, signs and ill-defined conditions in comparison with other ill-defined conditions (ill-defined cardiovascular diseases, cancer and injury) in a population-based cohort study. Of 1,606 baseline participants age...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Lima-Costa MF,Matos DL,Laurenti R,Mello-Jorge MH,Cesar CC

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00