[Prevalence of lower back pain and associated factors in students].

abstract：:A follow-up study was carried out in two localities in the semi-arid region of the State of Bahia, Northeast Brazil, with the aim of identifying the occurrence and nature of possible acute side effects subsequent to vitamin A megadose supplement given together with mass immunization in children 6-59 months old. The sa...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Assis AM,Santos LM,Prado MS,Martins MC,Barreto ML

更新日期：2000-01-01 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 study's overall objective was to investigate the relationship between psychosocial stressors, sense of community, and subjective wellbeing in urban and rural schoolchildren in Northeast Brazil, focusing on differences according to territorial context. The sample consisted of 757 participants, 495 from urban school...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Abreu DP,Viñas F,Casas F,Montserrat C,González-Carrasco M,Alcantara SC

更新日期：2016-09-19 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：:Structural equation modeling (SEM) is an important statistical tool for evaluating complex relations in several research areas. In epidemiology, the use and discussion of SEM have been limited thus far. This article presents basic principles and concepts in SEM, including an application using epidemiological data anal...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Amorim LD,Fiaccone RL,Santos CA,Santos TN,Moraes LT,Oliveira NF,Barbosa SO,Santos DN,Santos LM,Matos SM,Barreto ML

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cesarean section rate in municipal public maternity hospitals in the city of Rio de Janeiro in the year of 2000 was 30.1%. With such a high rate, our hypothesis is that attending obstetricians in these units are indicating cesarean sections for reasons not restricted to clinical factors. The article aims to analyz...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Dias MA,Deslandes SF

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This qualitative study explores the illness experiences, the efficacy of pulmonary rehabilitation as perceived by patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and their rationale for improvements in health. 23 patients participated in a daily, three-month home-based pulmonary rehabilitation. A pre-post s...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Pinto JM,Martín-Nogueras A,Nations M

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to review the literature on the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its components in adolescents (10-19 years old). The search was conducted in online databases (MEDLINE and SciELO), references from retrieved articles, and contacts with authors. Only original articles using either the criteri...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Moraes AC,Fulaz CS,Netto-Oliveira ER,Reichert FF

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Victora et al. (1998) proposed the use of low weight-for-age prevalence to estimate the prevalence of height-for-age deficit in Brazilian children. This procedure was justified by the need to simplify methods used in the context of community health programs. From the same perspective, the present article broadens this...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Reichenheim ME,Best NG

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low birth weight is associated with increased risk of dying in the first year of life. This study was motivated by recent changes in the determination of birth weight patterns with the advent of the perinatal epidemiological transition. We analyzed data from the Brazilian National Survey of Demographic and Health of C...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Viana Kde J,Taddei JA,Cocetti M,Warkentin S

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：:This study examined the spatial distribution of childhood community-acquired pneumonia detected through prospective surveillance in Goiânia, Brazil. Three spatial analysis techniques were applied to detect intra-urban geographic aggregation of pneumonia cases: Kernel method, nearest neighbor hierarchical technique, an...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Andrade AL,Silva SA,Martelli CM,Oliveira RM,Morais Neto OL,Siqueira Júnior JB,Melo LK,Di Fábio JL

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This cross-sectional study aimed to determine the profile of physical abuse against older people who underwent forensic examination at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Recife, Pernambuco State, Brazil. The cases, with data from 1,027 forensic reports, were described according to characteristics of the incident, v...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Abath Mde B,Leal MC,Melo Filho DA,Marques AP

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical guidelines are traditionally drafted by expert consensus. The benefits of mammographic screening have been questioned in recent years, owing to biases detected in the clinical trials that popularized its widespread use. Meanwhile, growing body of evidence on harms associated with mammographic screening also r...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Migowski A,Stein AT,Ferreira CBT,Ferreira DMTP,Nadanovsky P

更新日期：2018-06-21 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：:Serum creatinine (sCr) is usually higher among black people in the United States due to increased muscle mass, justifying the addition of race adjustment in creatinine-based formulas to estimate glomerular filtration rate (eGFR). We aimed to assess if sCr levels are different in low-income communities in Brazil accord...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Barcellos RC,Matos JP,Kang HC,Rosa ML,Lugon JR

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to assess the coverage and reliability of the Hospital Admissions Information System (SIH/SUS) in the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Data for women who gave birth in hospitals belonging to the Unified National Health System (SUS) were compared with data from medical records and interviews fro...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Bittencourt SA,Camacho LA,Leal Mdo C

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports on the epidemiological characterization of malaria following implementation of a program to control the endemic in a gold-mining area in northern Amapá State. The study focuses on total malaria cases in Amapá and the impact of the disease on the population, as represented by the Mineração Novo Astro...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Couto AA,Calvosa VS,Lacerda R,Castro F,Santa Rosa E,Nascimento JM

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated fetomaternal hemorrhage (FMH) in 343 postpartum patients who required prophylaxis of Rh alloimmunization with anti-D immunoglobulin. The rosette test was applied to screen for patients needing quantitative determination of fetal blood transferred from the maternal circulation, which was then measu...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Baiochi E,Camano L,Bordin JO

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospirosis is an endemic disease in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and presents a broad diversity of exposure routes, reservoirs, etiological agents, and clinical features. The main objective of this work is to identify transmission areas and possible ecological components of leptospirosis transmission. Th...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Barcellos C,Lammerhirt CB,de Almeida MA,dos Santos E

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to translate into Portuguese and validate the Pharmacy Services Questionnaire (PSQ). The instrument includes 20 questions that measure user satisfaction with pharmacy services, and is organized according to two factors. It uses a Likert scale of answers from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent). The PSQ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Correr CJ,Pontarolo R,Melchiors AC,Paula e Souza RA,Rossignoli P,Fernández-Llimós F

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study analyzed clinical, laboratory, and radiological characteristics of tuberculosis (TB) among adolescents from two Brazilian State capitals, according to the 2010 Updated Guidelines of the National TB Control Program (NTPC) through a descriptive, retrospective cross-sectional study of reported TB cases from Man...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Sant'anna CC,Schmidt CM,March Mde F,Pereira SM,Barreto ML

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emergency rescue after an earthquake is complex work which requires the participation of relief and social organizations. Studying earthquake emergency coordination efficiency can not only help rescue organizations to define their own rescue missions, but also strengthens inter-organizational communication and collabo...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Rong H,Xuedong L,Guizhi Z,Yulin Y,Da W

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the majority of chemical carcinogens are not capable of causing hazardous effects per se, the metabolism of these compounds is a crucial part of the initial host response to the environmental exposure. Disturbances in the balance between activation and detoxification may thus explain the individual variations in...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Conforti-Froes N,el-Zein R,Au W

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This descriptive qualitative study had the following objectives: identify the content and structure of social representations of quality of life and AIDS for persons living with the disease and analyze the structural relations between such representations. The sample included 103 persons with HIV in a municipality (co...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Costa TL,Oliveira DC,Formozo GA

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：: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：: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：:Based on experiences and reflections reported by health professionals, the aim of this study was to critically analyze the actions, situations, and decisions in healthcare services that involve breastfeeding, examining aspects that favor or limit its possibilities. This was a qualitative study based on the conceptual ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Souza SN,Mello DF,Ayres JR

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This cross-sectional epidemiological study aimed to calculate the potential years of life lost by female homicide victims in Recife, Pernambuco State, Brazil, in 2003-2007. A database was used from the Operational Division for Information on Births and Deaths under the Recife Municipal Health Department. All death cer...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Silva LS,Menezes ML,Lopes CL,Corrêa MS

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00