[Prevalence of abdominal obesity and excess fat in students of a city in the mountains of southern Brazil].

abstract：:Dietary practices of college students were described and examined according to the means by which they were admitted to the university (quota and non-quota students). A cross-sectional study was conducted with undergraduates (n = 1336) at a public university using a self-administered and identified questionnaire that ...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Perez PM,de Castro IR,Franco Ada S,Bandoni DH,Wolkoff DB

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the health situation in Brazil's Federal District between 2005 and 2017. A related set of indicators were selected and compared to those for Brazil's Midwest ("Centro-Oeste") region and for the country as a whole. First, data are presented on the demographic profile and current organizational struc...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Sellera PEG,Morais Neto OL,Vasconcelos AMN,Ruy MB,Moraes LFS,Santos SOD

更新日期：2019-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The Psychosocial Section of the Criminal Executions Court of the Federal District Court of Justice assists people who are under civil commitment, namely a legal sentence that labels them as sick people and criminals. In the juridical context, there are two options facing them: outpatient treatment or internment in a s...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Silva EQ,Brandi CQ

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study sought to verify the records on file and the number of cases of attempted suicide among children and adolescents who were attended by Emergency Care health professionals in the municipality of Matozinhos, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Documentary and descriptive research was conducted, the data for which was collec...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Alves MA,Cadete MM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The undue use of benzodiazepines particularly among women has raised concern in the public health area. This qualitative study aimed at understanding the beliefs and values associated with undue use of benzodiazepines among women. Thirty-three participants (aged between 18 and 60) with a history of undue use of benzod...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Souza AR,Opaleye ES,Noto AR

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the information about breast self examination available on the Internet. METHODS:A descriptive documental study was performed via a search on the Google® and Yahoo® websites using the phrase "breast self examination" in Portuguese, and the first 50 results from each site were analyzed using the cr...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Cubas MR,Felchner PC

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic condition that affects about 1% of the adult population. In a historical cohort of Minas Gerais State, 11,573 RA patients registered in the Outpatient Information System (SIA) between 2008 and 2013 were identified. For this study we adopted the public funding body's perspective a...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Silva GDD,Andrade EIG,Cherchiglia ML,Almeida AM,Guerra Júnior AA,Acurcio FA

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study estimated the prevalence of serum lipid alterations among adolescents and investigated its association with excess weight and abdominal obesity. It involved a cross-sectional study with 525 adolescents from Piracicaba (São Paulo state). Anthropometric (body mass index, waist circumference and waist-height ra...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Enes CC,Silva JR

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cross-sectional study was conducted with the elderly population in rural and urban areas characterized by the prevalence of morbidity and symptoms, and 229 elderly people were interviewed. The average age was 72.3, of which 57.2% lived in the rural zone and 56.3% were female. The morbidities most reported were insom...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： da Silva EF,Paniz VM,Laste G,Torres IL

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the work process of a Family Health Unity (USF) in a small municipality, inland the state of Rio de Janeiro. We would like to start with the question of what is causing the population registered in a family health program to look for the Emergency Service (SE) of a General Hospital. Semi-structured...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Barros DM,Sá Mde C

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scope of this study was to develop and validate a questionnaire (QCirDental) to measure the impacts associated with dental extraction surgery. The QCirDental questionnaire was developed in two steps; (1) question and item generation and selection, and (2) pretest of the questionnaire with evaluation of the its mea...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Bortoluzzi MC,Martins LD,Takahashi A,Ribeiro B,Martins L,Pinto MHB

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scope of this study was to relate child obesity with the family's perception of the child's silhouette's and concern with excess weight in childhood A cross-sectional study was conducted among children aged between 20 and 48 months who frequent Health Units or are preschoolers in the city of Curitiba from June to ...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Santos DFBD,Strapasson GC,Golin SDP,Gomes EC,Wille GMFC,Barreira SMW

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This essay has the objective of revisiting the intellectual output of Ricardo Bruno Mendes-Gonçalves (1946-1996), Professor of the Department of Preventive Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo and one of the theoreticians who participated in the construction of the field of Brazilian Coll...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Ayres JR

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scope of this study was to elaborate and validate an assessment tool for Best Practices in School Food and Nutrition Units. For this purpose a survey was conducted in the city of Santos (São Paulo - Brazil), in two stages: 1) Preparation of a Checklist for Best Practices in School Food and Nutrition Units (BPAE ch...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Stedefeldt E,da Cunha DT,Silva Júnior EA,da Silva SM,de Oliveira AB

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The practice of social control in the field of the worker's health has been facing barriers imposed by the globalization and the restructuring in the work world, either because of the weakness of the workers' unions, or by the absence of representatives of the various workers categories without formal work bond, belon...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Lacaz FA,Flório SM

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to translate into Portuguese, perform the cross-cultural adaptation and verify the psychometric properties of the Adolescent Health Promotion Scale (AHPS) for use in Brazilian adolescents. The original version was translated following international recommendations. The final version of the translated ...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Guedes DP,Zuppa MA

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complexity appears in the twentieth century as a way to understand many phenomena that are perceived as chaotic and complex from classical thought, which still persist in our way of explaining the world. Its purpose is to study the complex and adaptive systems that are sensitive to initial conditions. Some of the char...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Gómez CA,Jaramillo FL

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper aims to understand the meanings of food and nutrition policies for beneficiary mothers and for technicians designing and implementing said policies. The Grounded Theory method was employed. The data collection techniques adopted were the semi-structured interview and the focus group. The participants were b...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： López LPM,Delgado CEY,Marín GM

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper analyzes Journal Ciência & Saúde Coletiva's approach to the narrative field. The concept of "narrative field" is built on the relationships of three dimensions, namely, the cognitive (epistemic), the socio-political-pedagogical, and the applied. This is an analytical, quantitative, and qualitative research ...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Nunes ED

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study set out to describe the profile of the patients with voice complaints and/or alterations who were attended between July 2003 and December 2006 at the speech therapy outpatient unit of "Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais." This was analyzed according to age, sex, profession, school...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Menezes LN,Behlau M,Gama AC,Teixeira LC

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article deals with intergovernmental relations in health within the 20 years of implantation of the Unified Health System (SUS), in the light of the historical course of Brazilian federalism and its implications to health. Initially, a theoretical-conceptual review was carried out on the topic of federalism, soci...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Viana AL,Machado CV

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scope of this study was to identify the profile of fragility and associated factors among the elderly registered in a Family Health Unit. It involved an observational, exploratory, household -based and cross-sectional study conducted with 139 elderly individuals. The data were collected using a structured question...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Santos PH,Fernandes MH,Casotti CA,Coqueiro Rda S,Carneiro JA

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scope of this study was to determine the satisfaction levels of users of public pharmacies and verify the knowledge of pharmacists in relation to dispensing of medicines. This is a descriptive study, conducted in municipalities in the State of Espírito Santo, in the period from May to August 2013. Data were collec...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Bonadiman RL,Santanna AF,Brasil GA,Lima EM,Lenz D,Endringer DC,Andrade TU

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental degradation has been affecting ecosystems and causing the imbalance of various life forms that comprise natural diversity, and consequently produce risks and hazards to public health. Therefore, an attempt was made to examine interdisciplinary health and environmental health in public undergraduate insti...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： de Souza CL,Andrade CS

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article seeks to identify the association between nutritional status and functional dependence in institutionalized elderly interns in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais. It involved a cross-sectional study with 233 elderly interns in which sociodemographic variables, nutritional status and degree of dependency were assess...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Sousa KT,Mesquita LA,Pereira LA,Azeredo CM

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recognition of the human right to water and sanitation (HRtWS) by the United Nations General Assembly and Human Rights Council in 2010 constituted a significant political measure whose direct consequences are still being assessed. Previous to this date, the HRtWS and its link to a healthy life and adequate standar...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Brown C,Neves-Silva P,Heller L

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Health Survey is a household-based nationwide survey carried out by the Ministry of Health in partnership with the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. The scope of the survey is to establish the health status and lifestyles of the population - as well as how they look after their health - wit...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Szwarcwald CL,Malta DC,Pereira CA,Vieira ML,Conde WL,Souza Júnior PR,Damacena GN,Azevedo LO,Azevedo E Silva G,Theme Filha MM,Lopes Cde S,Romero DE,Almeida Wda S,Monteiro CA

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative burden due to non communicable diseases (NCD) is increasing worldwide and has been shown to be generally greater for men than women. The objective of this paper is to describe gender differences in NCD mortality rates and trends in Brazil. Standardized mortality rates for the years 1991-2010 were correcte...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Stevens A,Schmidt MI,Duncan BB

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this article is to verify the association between nutritional status and physical activity with the perception of body image satisfaction in a sample of adolescents from Curitiba, State of Paraná. The sample consisted of 844 adolescents of 11 to 17 years of age. The level of physical activity was evaluated ...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Fantineli ER,Silva MPD,Campos JG,Malta Neto NA,Pacífico AB,Campos W

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scope of this research was to analyze the ethical dimension of the training of health professionals, specifically in Dentistry. Interviews were conducted with teachers, in addition to observation of academic activities and focus groups with students of two undergraduate courses. Data analysis revealed some element...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Finkler M,Caetano JC,Ramos FR

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00