Socio-demographic correlates of leisure time physical activity among Portuguese adults.

abstract：:Population ageing in Brazil has been more rapid and more intense among women. This phenomenon is well described in developed countries where mortality rates are higher for men than women. In this regard, the analysis of mortality patterns by cause contributes to elucidate the determinant factors of the present situati...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： de Aquino EM,Menezes GM,Amoedo MB,Nobre LC

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary changes in Western society highlight the need for individual and collective health providers to use their strategic positions to actively promote healthy eating habits. Using the research-action methodology in various clinics in the Federal District of Brazil, the present study aimed to identify what these pro...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Silva DO,Recine EG,Queiroz EF

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The obesity epidemic is a global phenomenon that does not respect geographic or socio-demographic boundaries. Thus, research on factors related to the obesity epidemic has focused on social and economic characteristics of modern societies. This article discusses obesity in Spain and trends in several associated factor...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Gutiérrez-Fisac JL,Regidor E,López García E,Banegas Banegas JR,Rodríguez Artalejo F

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a health education project targeting a rural community and health professionals from counties undergoing epidemiological surveillance for Chagas disease vectors in the State of Paraná, Brazil. A group of technicians from the Brazilian National Health Foundation (FUNASA) was trained, together with ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Falavigna-Guilherme AL,Costa AL,Batista O,Pavanelli GC,de Araujo SM

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focuses on the reactions of construction workers to educational materials (posters, folders, and leaflets) produced by the Brazilian Ministries of Health and Labor. The authors conducted two focal groups at construction sites in the city of Rio de Janeiro to analyze four educational materials, employing the...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Kelly-Santos A,Rozemberg B

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Air pollution is a widely recognized hazard to human health. In industrial cities the emission of toxic gases and particulate matter into the atmosphere compounds the pollution problem caused by circulation of vehicles, often creating hazardous public health situations. The goal of this study was to analyze patterns i...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Peiter P,Tobar C

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article takes an interdisciplinary qualitative approach to the problem of traffic accidents in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. The authors begin by analyzing the "municipalization" (i.e., decentralization to the municipal level) of transport and traffic management in Campinas based on social representations by membe...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Queiroz MS,Oliveira PC

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study aimed to analyze the relationship between health, work characteristics, education, and skills on the work ability of teachers in basic education in Brazil. This was a cross-sectional, population-based study using data from the Brazilian National Survey on Health, Work Conditions, and Absences in Schoolteache...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Alcantara MA,Medeiros AM,Claro RM,Vieira MT

更新日期：2019-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1987 the University of Guadalajara performed a seroepidemiological survey on the prevalence of Chagas disease in the 124 counties of the State of Jalisco, Mexico, arriving at a rate of 21.6 per 100 inhabitants. From December 1993 to June 1994, we studied 2238 individuals from 32 rural counties in this State. Of th...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Trujillo-Contreras F,Yerenas MA

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colombia recorded 11 cases of acute Chagas disease and 80 cases of oral contamination with Trypanosoma cruzi. The current study analyzes the entomological and parasitological characteristics of the outbreak in Aguachica, Cesar Department, in 2010. An interdisciplinary group of health professionals and regional univers...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Soto H,Tibaduiza T,Montilla M,Triana O,Suárez DC,Torres Torres M,Arias MT,Lugo L

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population-based survey to provide information on the prevalence of hepatitis viral infection and the pattern of risk factors was carried out in the urban population of all Brazilian state capitals and the Federal District, between 2005 and 2009. This paper describes the design and methodology of the study which inv...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Ximenes RA,Pereira LM,Martelli CM,Merchán-Hamann E,Stein AT,Figueiredo GM,Braga MC,Montarroyos UR,Brasil LM,Turchi MD,Fonseca JC,Lima ML,Alencar LC,Costa M,Coral G,Moreira RC,Cardoso MR

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study aimed to: (1) describe the work process in Brazil's oral health teams, based on the essential attributes of primary health care, according to geographic region, type of team, and the municipality's socioeconomic characteristics and (2) verify whether the data in the work process of the oral health teams in t...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Fagundes DM,Thomaz EBAF,Queiroz RCS,Rocha TAH,Silva NCD,Vissoci JRN,Calvo MCM,Facchini LA

更新日期：2018-09-06 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：:Prevalence of wheezing was studied in Guarani indigenous children hospitalized for acute lower respiratory tract infections in Southern and Southeastern Brazil, recruited by a surveillance routine established in villages from May 2007 to June 2008. Data were obtained from hospital records. Crude and adjusted prevalenc...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Souza PG,Cardoso AM,Sant Anna CC

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To prevent or mitigate an AIDS epidemic among injecting drug users (IDUs), effective activities need to be implemented on a large enough scale to reach and assist sufficient numbers of drug users and thereby change their risk behaviors related to drug use and sex. Recent work by UNAIDS on "high coverage sites", adopti...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Burrows D

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to investigate: (a) multiple relations between socio-demographic, psychosocial, and health variables and quality of life in the elderly and (b) the model's validity through correlation with depressive symptoms. The sample included 339 elderly individuals from 60 to 98 years of age (M ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Oliveira SE,Von Hohendorff J,Müller Jde L,Bandeira DR,Koller SH,Fleck MP,Trentini CM

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：:This article reviews the Brazilian literature on popular health education, a theoretical area that includes a relevant group of the country's public health researchers and political activists. This was a qualitative, exploratory, analytical study. Based on a search in the SciELO database and books and book chapters, w...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Gomes LB,Merhy EE

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analyzes Brazil's tobacco control policy from 1986 to 2016, seeking to describe the policy's history and discuss its achievements, limits, and challenges. The study adopted a political economics approach and contributions from public policy analysis. Data were based on a search of the literature, documents,...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Portes LH,Machado CV,Turci SRB

更新日期：2018-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute poisoning with medicines in Brazil has various causes, including a deficient national drug policy. The current study thus aimed to analyze socioeconomic variables, prescription characteristics, and forms of purchase or acquisition and storing of medicines by victims of acute unintentional poisoning. The data wer...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Margonato FB,Thomson Z,Paoliello MM

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study sought to identify people's knowledge on dengue and its vector biology, aimed at promoting a communications channel between technical and lay reasoning in order to foster community involvement in dengue and dengue vector control activities. A survey was conducted in an Aedes aegypti-infested area with dengu...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Lefèvre AM,Ribeiro AF,Marques GR,Serpa LL,Lefèvre F

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of the World Health Organization terminology for disability indicates the influence of the social model of disability in the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health. This theoretical framework should guide any translations of the document. In Brazil, the document was translated ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Diniz D,Medeiros M,Squinca F

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：:The reproducibility and validity of a Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) was evaluated in 83 adults living in a State capital in southern Brazil. The reproducibility and validity were tested with intra-class correlation coefficients (ICC). Mean nutrient intakes from three 24-hour dietary recalls (24hDR) were compared ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Zanolla AF,Olinto MT,Henn RL,Wahrlich V,Anjos LA

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：:The objectives of this study were to describe the demand for health services by adolescents and to identify associated factors. The study analyzed data from the National School Health Survey 2012 and calculated prevalence rates and 95% confidence intervals (95%CI). Data analysis used age-adjusted logistic regression. ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Oliveira MM,Andrade SS,Campos MO,Malta DC

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study proposed the application of structural equation modeling (SEM) to investigate variables associated with preterm birth based on a theoretical model analyzed previously by hierarchical logistic regression. The data came from a population-based case-control observational study of hospital births to mothers res...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Oliveira AA,Almeida MF,Silva ZPD,Assunção PL,Silva AMR,Santos HGD,Alencar GP

更新日期：2019-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated arterial blood pressure varies substantially in relation to social and cultural variables. Early work on acculturation, socioeconomic status, and blood pressure documented this variation, which could not be explained entirely by conventional factors such as diet, physical activity, or access to medical care. ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Dressler WW,Santos JE

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occupational exposure to some pesticides, and particularly DBCP and chlordecone, may adversely affect male fertility. However, apart from the therapeutic use of diethylstilbestrol, the threat to human reproduction posed by "endocrine disrupting" environmental contaminants has not been supported by epidemiological evid...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Cocco P

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the association between obesity and emotional and behavioral difficulties in adolescents. We studied 4,325 individuals 11 to 15 years of age who were members of the 1993 birth cohort in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. Information on body mass index (BMI), maternal assessment of the adole...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Assunção MC,Muniz LC,Schäfer AA,Meller Fde O,Carús JP,Quadros Lde C,Domingues LR,da Silva VL,Gonçalves H,Hallal PC,Menezes AM

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00