Incidence of self-reported hearing loss and associated risk factors among the elderly in São Paulo, Brazil: the SABE survey.

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：:Technical advances in neonatology have increased the life expectancy of children with serious health problems. Many of these children experience developmental delay (mental disability) and require special care. The family must adapt to better provide for the child's needs. This study aimed to identify mothers' reactio...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Bastos OM,Deslandes SF

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Access to water and sanitation services by the population of the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, has been marked by processes of socio-spatial segregation and social exclusion. Considering the recognition, in 2010, of the human rights to water and sanitation by the United Nations, we se...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Nahas MIP,Moura ASA,Carvalho RC,Heller L

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:During 1999 and 2000, a population-based cross-sectional study was conducted in Pelotas, southern Brazil, to describe the population distribution of abdominal adiposity according to "action level points" and to identify risk factors. The study included a sample of 1,935 adults (20-69 years) residing in urban areas. Ab...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Olinto MT,Nácul LC,Dias-da-Costa JS,Gigante DP,Menezes AM,Macedo S

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：:Lifestyles have been highlighted as the main risk factor for noncommunicable diseases in the 21st century, often leaving aside the role of material conditions of reproduction of daily life in modeling of habits and behaviors. The article addresses the tensions and transactions in family nutrition in the city of Santia...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Anigstein MS

更新日期：2020-09-18 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：:Behavioral surveillance surveys have been carried among military conscripts, in Brazil, since 1996. This paper presents the results of the 2007 survey and compares actual findings with those obtained in previous studies carried out in the period 1999-2002. The conscripts were selected with a two stage sampling stratif...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Szwarcwald CL,Andrade CL,Pascom AR,Fazito E,Pereira GF,Penha IT

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article evaluates the degree of implementation of ten urgent and emergency hospital services comprising the macro and micro-regional referral system in Pernambuco State, Northeast Brazil. The study analyzes criteria related to structure (physical and organizational, and material and human resources) and process (...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Dubeux LS,Freese E,Reis YA

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present the results of a dermatological survey conducted among the Xavánte Indians from the Pimentel Barbosa Reservation, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil Scabies, pediculosis, and pioderma were the most frequent diseases, clearly related to poor hygiene. The finding of perleche indicates the presence of nutri...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Alvarez RR,Campbell I,Friedman H,Bertoli ML,Gama GB,Diaz LA

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this cross-sectional study nested in a cohort was to describe the targeting and coverage of the Family Income program in children 13 to 35 months of age. Data were obtained from the BRISA Birth Cohorts in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo State, and São Luís, Maranhão State, Brazil. The cohorts started in 2010 with...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Silva FS,Queiroz RCS,Branco MDRFC,Habenschus MIAT,Scorzafave LG,Saraiva MDCP,Bettiol H,Barbieri MA,Rodrigues MAFR,Barbosa YC,Simões VMF,Silva AAMD

更新日期：2019-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:An evaluative, descriptive, time series study was conducted to evaluate the completeness of data on certificates of live birth. The study population consisted of all live births of residents in Pernambuco State, Brazil, from 1996 to 2005, contained in the database of the Live Birth Information System (SINASC), provide...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Costa JM,de Frias PG

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) aims at standardization, but its applicability requires consistent instruments. In Brazil, invasive therapeutic approaches are frequent, leading to functional alterations. The current study thus aimed to identify and discuss instruments capa...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Carvalho FN,Koifman RJ,Bergmann A

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to identify critical health care areas along the Brazilian border. The distribution of health resources was analyzed by municipality and border area in 1999-2000 and subsequently analyzed according to living conditions, health status, geographic accessibility, and other aspects of the border ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Peiter PC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual and reproductive health is a major public health concern, since it involves individual health and wellbeing and affects the socioeconomic level of societies. Socially underprivileged groups like immigrants may be more exposed to sexual and reproductive health problems. The current study examines key aspects of ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Rocha CM,Dias SF,Gama AF

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proportion of cancer attributed to occupation varies, and estimates are partially dependent on the characteristics of exposed populations, type of tumor, and methodology. The main difficulty for estimating these proportions is the reconstruction of past individual occupational exposure. Appropriate methods for ret...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Ribeiro FS,Wünsch Filho V

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of American visceral leishmaniasis (AVL) is based on combating the vector and eliminating the domestic reservoir of the focus area - defined as 200 meters around human or canine cases. This paper discusses the use of spatial analysis techniques in the epidemiological surveillance of AVL in Araçatuba, São P...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Camargo-Neves VL,Katz G,Rodas LA,Poletto DW,Lage LC,Spínola RM,Cruz OG

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus (HPV) has been established as an important etiological factor for the development of cervical cancer. This DNA virus primarily infects the epithelium and can induce benign and malignant lesions of the mucous membranes and skin. Some HPVs are considered high risk due to their role in malignant prog...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Rosa MI,Medeiros LR,Rosa DD,Bozzeti MC,Silva FR,Silva BR

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aims to evaluate the current operation of Brazilian syringe exchange programs (SEP). After consulting national and regional networks of people working in projects/programs aiming to reduce drug-related harm, we identified 134 potential participant programs. Unfortunately, only 45 SEPs answered a surv...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Fonseca EM,Ribeiro JM,Bertoni N,Bastos FI

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to analyze mortality trends from breast cancer and uterine cervical cancer in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. The mortality time series from the Mortality Information System of the Brazilian Ministry of Health was used. Age-related specific mortality rates were calculated and standa...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Rodrigues AD,Bustamante-Teixeira MT

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated influenza vaccine coverage among elderly individuals (≥ 60 years) living in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, in 2015, and analyzed associated factors. This was a cross-sectional population-based study of data from the SABE Study (Health, Well-Being, and Aging). The dependent variable was influenza v...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Sato APS,Andrade FB,Duarte YAO,Antunes JLF

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the health-disease-healthcare process in immigrants settled in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, have revealed a complex web of relations in the demands by immigrants and the actions conceived and planned by health services. In this context, intermediation by health workers in the relationship between immigran...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Silveira C,Goldberg A,Silva TB,Gomes MH,Martin D

更新日期：2016-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventeen variables were evaluated as possible risk factors for the intradomiciliary infestation with Triatoma dimidiata in 644 houses in Jutiapa, Guatemala. During 2004 the houses were assessed for vector presence and evaluated for hygiene, cluttering, material comfort, construction conditions and number of inhabitan...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Bustamante DM,Monroy C,Pineda S,Rodas A,Castro X,Ayala V,Quiñónes J,Moguel B,Trampe R

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Latin American countries made the political decision to eliminate human rabies transmitted by dogs by the year 2005. The purpose of the current study is to evaluate to what extent this goal has been reached. The epidemiological situation and control measures were analyzed and broken down within the countries by georef...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Schneider MC,Belotto A,Adé MP,Hendrickx S,Leanes LF,Rodrigues MJ,Medina G,Correa E

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamics of the spread of the AIDS epidemic ranges according to the characteristics of each geographical region in different population groups. The aim of this study was to evaluate spatial and temporal trends of the AIDS epidemic among the elderly in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A retrospective study usin...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Rodrigues NC,Almeida AS,Braga JU,O'Dwyer G,Apratto Junior PC,Daumas RP,Lino VT,Andrade MK,Monteiro DL,Barros MB

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article discusses the work of some key players in the current debate on the construction of the notion of sexual difference in modernity, taking as the focus of analysis and illustration the theses submitted at the School of Medicine in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during the 19th century. The objective is to confront...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Rohden F

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper summarizes the first year of activity of the Ceará State Pharmacovigilance System (SIFACE) as a strategy to discuss practical and methodological problems related to developing pharmacovigilance in Brazil. Siface is being structured by the Group for the Prevention of Improper Use of Pharmaceuticals (GPUIM), ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Coêlho HL,Arrais PS,Gomes AP

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article compares food intake by women 35 years or older in two population-based cross-sectional studies in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1995-1996 (n = 1,014) and 2004-2005 (n = 1,001). Food intake was assessed with a food-frequency questionnaire, and nutritional status was defined according to body mass index (BMI ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Pereira RA,Andrade RG,Sichieri R

更新日期：2009-11-01 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