Prevalence of physical activity through the practice of sports among adolescents from Portuguese speaking countries.

abstract：:The scope of this article is to compare the work overload averages among caregivers assisting frequenters of a Psychosocial Care Center for children and adolescents (CAPSi) in Pelotas-Brazil in relation to the mental health of the children and adolescents and the caregivers themselves. It involved a cross-sectional st...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Farias Cde A,Lima PO,Ferreira LA,Cruzeiro AL,Quevedo Lde A

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article aims to determine the pattern of alcohol use in the elderly and its associations with sociodemographic characteristics in an elderly sample of patients from the city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. A cross-sectional study was conducted involving 557 seniors, aged 60 years or more, through appl...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Guidolin BL,Silva Filho IG,Nogueira EL,Ribeiro Junior FP,Cataldo Neto A

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:Chronic spinal diseases, including deformities and muscular pain, are significant causes of morbidity among adults and the elderly. The scope of this study is to assess the life expectancy of Brazilians with chronic spinal diseases by sex and age between 2003 and 2008. The Sullivan method was used, combining the morta...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Camargos MC

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper deals with qualitative research conducted in the Therapeutic Residency Service in the municipality of Campina Grande, State of Paraíba, Brazil, the objective being to ascertain the difficulties encountered by the professionals in the healthcare practices defined by the aforementioned service and identify th...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Silveira Mde F,Santos HP Jr

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the institutionalization of health promotion (HP) in Brazil in the twenty years following the proclamation of the 1988 Brazilian Constitution. The legal and institutional foundations of HP are delineated, as well as its recent reassertion as a national policy. Moreover, the praxis of HP within the ...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Buss PM,Carvalho AI

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work presents a brief history of health plans in Brazil examining the interface between the public and the private sector. The evolution and regulation of the supplementary care system is analyzed, the different care modalities are defined and the main differences between health plans and dental care insur...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Pietrobon L,da Silva CM,Batista LR,Caetano JC

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scope of this study was to analyze the trend of completeness of the data on violence perpetrated against adolescents registered in the State of Pernambuco between 2009 and 2012. This involved a cross-sectional survey of 5,259 adolescents, who were the victims of violence reported in SINAN-VIVA of the Pernambuco St...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Santos TM,Cardoso MD,Pitangui AC,Santos YG,Paiva SM,Melo JP,Silva LM

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An evaluation was made of the perception of oral health teams regarding Atraumatic Restorative Treatment (ART) as a primary oral healthcare strategy used by the Municipal Health Department of Curitiba, Paraná State. A study was made both of Health Units (HU) that operate using the Family Health Strategy (FHSHU) and th...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Busato IM,Gabardo MC,França BH,Moysés SJ,Moysés ST

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study sought to understand the social representations of health and immunization for elderly individuals vaccinated and unvaccinated with influenza vaccine. The theoretical benchmark adopted was the Theory of Social Representations of a qualitative nature. The research was carried out with thirty elderly individu...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Costa e Silva SP,Menandro MC

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term "basic care" is restricted to a few countries like Brazil. Since the 1978 Alma-Ata Conference, "primary health care" (PHC) has been used to designate care at the first level. The paper summarizes the experiences of evaluation in primary health care, based on the review of the set of manuscripts published by J...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Pinto LF,Hartz ZMA

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analyzes the profiles of pesticide intoxication, here distinguished by agricultural pesticides, household pesticides, veterinary products, and rodenticides, according to data obtained from the National Poisoning Information System (SINITOX) database, from 1999 to 2003. The findings indicate different profil...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Bochner R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a cross-cut study that was carried out with the objective of investigating the causes through which adolescents have provoked abortion, relating it to age and the type of school attended. The sample was calculated by taking into account the number of hospital admissions for post-abortion curettage. A semi-stru...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Correia DS,Cavalcante JC,do Egito ES,Maia EM

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the factors associated with dementia in the elderly attended at a memory outpatient clinic of the University of Southern Santa Catarina (UNISUL). This is a cross-sectional study with data analysis of medical records from January 2013 to April 2016. The outcome was the clinical diagnosis of dementia. The co...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Santos CSD,Bessa TA,Xavier AJ

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with mental disorders may develop serious adverse effects in their functional performance. A structured care network may favor psychosocial components, such as self-confidence and problem solving capacity. This work seeks to identify the care network for children with mental disorders and develop intervention...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Tszesnioski Lde C,da Nóbrega KB,de Lima ML,Facundes VL

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ecological study was conducted in order to analyze the differences in mortality by violence against adolescents according to living conditions strata and race/color in Recife in the period from 1998 to 2004. The average mortality coefficient for violence during this period was calculated for the city and by living ...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： da Costa IE,Ludermir AB,Silva IA

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This qualitative study sought to analyze the meanings attributed to domestic violence against the elderly by professionals in Primary Healthcare. A total of 10 health professionals from different backgrounds from a renowned health unit for care of the elderly took part, and the data was collected through semi-structur...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Wanderbroocke AC,Moré CL

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this article is to translate, to adapt and to validate the National College Health Risk Behavior Survey to apply at Brazilian college students. 208 college students from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) and University of Pernambuco (UPE) participated in the study. The validation was carried...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Franca Cd,Colares V

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this article is to accomplish a critical analysis of two governmental important programs in health and environmental education - Health Education and Social Mobilization Program (PESMS) and Environmental Education and Sanitation Social Mobilization Program (PEAMSS), aiming at stimulate participative edu...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Moisés M,Kligerman DC,Cohen SC,Monteiro SC

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that self-perceived health has a close relationship with indicators of morbidity and mortality. Since there is a lack of information on the self-perceived health status of hospital workers, the objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of satisfaction with health among people working at...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Porto DB,de Arruda GA,Altimari LR,Cardoso Júnior CG

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work has emerged from one of the core themes of research undergone in my masters' course at the Federal University of Minas Gerais - School of Nursing. In order to understand group learning, we used the theoretical references of Pichon-Riviére. According to this author, learning is an indicator of uttermost impor...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Almeida SP,Soares SM

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Primary Health Care (PHC), access, and integrality are strongly influenced by the coordination of care, which in turn receives a positive impact from the articulation of telehealth actions for teleregulation of care. We created a teleregulation method (RegulaSUS Project) based on specific protocols firmly grounded ...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Katz N,Roman R,Rados DV,Oliveira EB,Schmitz CAA,Gonçalves MR,Mengue SS,Umpierre RN

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scope of this study was to evaluate body dissatisfaction among adolescents, and to explore differences according to sex, socioeconomic status and body mass index. 4325 individuals aged 14-15 years old from Pelotas, Brazil, were studied. Body dissatisfaction was evaluated comparing the desired image with the percei...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Dumith Sde C,Menezes AM,Bielemann RM,Petresco S,da Silva IC,Linhares Rda S,Amorim TC,Duarte DV,Araújo CL,dos Santos JV

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The smallpox worldwide eradication was the major world public health achievement. The binomial - vaccines and immunization - continues to demonstrate very high performance in the prevention and control of other diseases preventable by vaccination. The new global initiatives on vaccination, such as GAVI, have made poss...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Homma A,Martins Rde M,Leal Mda L,Freire Mda S,Couto AR

更新日期：2011-02-01 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 Community Health Agent (CHA) has traditionally been linked to doctors and nurses, being considered exclusive 'property' of these professionals. Historically, oral health tended to operate isolated, disconnecting the mouth from the rest of the body and the individual from his environment. The Family Health Program ...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： de Holanda AL,Barbosa AA,Brito EW

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term vulnerability has been more frequently used in several studies, striving to better understand the specificities and needs of different population groups. The scope of this study was to identify, characterize and analyze populations in situations of socio-environmental vulnerability in Rio de Janeiro city, con...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Malta FS,Costa EMD,Magrini A

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this article is to identify the prevalence of mouth breathing in children from an elementary school. 496 questionnaires were answered by 1st and 4th grade children's parents or sponsors in order to identify mouth-breathing. There were questions about habits, sleeping, behavior, eating, personal care a...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Felcar JM,Bueno IR,Massan AC,Torezan RP,Cardoso JR

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subject of sexuality in academic and service institutions is perceived through predominantly biological conceptual perspectives, blurring the subjective component that is imbued in social and cultural processes. The meanings that medical staff construct around sexuality have implications in their professional deve...

journal_title：Ciencia & saude coletiva

authors： Salinas Urbina AA,Jarillo Soto EC

更新日期：2013-03-01 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