Evidence-based decision making and promotion of physical activity among directors of local health departments.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To review epidemiological data from patients admitted to a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), Brazil, and to compare them to medical aspects associated to disease severity and mortality. Also, to profile these patients, including demographic data, disease prevalence, mortality rates and associated factors....

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Einloft PR,Garcia PC,Piva JP,Bruno F,Kipper DJ,Fiori RM

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toluene, present in many industrial and domestic products, is the main solvent involved in solvent abuse and occupational exposure. The main problem in studying toluene-related pathologies is the fact that it is frequently combined with other substances. This review focuses on its potential toxicity. The following sub...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Forster LM,Tannhauser M,Tannhauser SL

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE To analyze the association between concentrations of air pollutants and admissions for respiratory causes in children. METHODS Ecological time series study. Daily figures for hospital admissions of children aged < 6, and daily concentrations of air pollutants (PM10, SO2, NO2, O3 and CO) were analyzed in the ...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Souza JB,Reisen VA,Santos JM,Franco GC

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:According to the World Health Organization, medicinal drug promotion should be reliable, accurate, truthful, informative, balanced, up-to-date and capable of substantiation. The objective of the present study was to review psychoactive drug advertisements to physicians as for information consistency with the ...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Mastroianni PC,Noto AR,Galduróz JC

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present essay is an exploratory study of the historical and institutional background of the so-called "crisis in public health", aimed at identifying the new trends and perspectives for the paradigmatic transformation of the health field in the context of the current international panorama of economic and cultural...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Paim JS,de Almeida Filho N

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the prevalence and severity of dental caries in Brazilian children and the association with individual and contextual factors. METHODS:Data were taken from the Brazilian Oral Health Survey (SBBrasil 2010) a sample of 7,247 12-year-olds. The data were collected using clinical examinations and inte...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Freire Mdo C,Reis SC,Figueiredo N,Peres KG,Moreira Rda S,Antunes JL

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Estimate the prevalence and determinants of tobacco use by students. METHODS:This cross-sectional study, carried out between 2013 and 2014, evaluates 701 public school students between 10 and 79 years of age living in a city in the countryside of the State of Goias, Midwest of Brazil. A structured questionna...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Vargas LS,Lucchese R,Silva ACD,Guimarães RA,Vera I,Castro PA

更新日期：2017-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to promote reflection on the need to create a national incident notification system based on a brazilian patient safety program. Incidents in health care harm patients and encumber the health care system. Although a quality assessment program has been recently launched in health care instituti...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Capucho HC,Cassiani SH

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many countries have acknowledged that vaccination programs call for a mastery of technical and organizational elements if they are to become accessible to the population. One of these elements has been greatly underestimated: the participation of populations and their motivations. Experiences in several countries are ...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Nigenda-López G,Orozco E,Leyva R

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adults, nymphs and nits of the Pediculus humanus were found in a frame-house infesting the clothes and bedding of three inhabitants in a shanty town in S. Paulo county, S. Paulo State. A total of 198 nits were found glued in 15.0 cm2 of fibres of the infested clothing, giving a ratio of 13.2 nits/cm2. Having in view t...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Linardi PM,Barata JM,Urbinatti PR,de Souza D,Botelho JR,De Maria M

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the association between weekly working hours and self-rated health of nurses in public hospitals in Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. METHODS:A total of 3,229 nurses (82.7% of the eligible group) participated in this cross-sectional study, carried out between April 2010 and December ...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Fernandes JDC,Portela LF,Griep RH,Rotenberg L

更新日期：2017-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the association between sociodemographic determinants and the development of social competence and behavior problems in children. METHODS:Cross-sectional study performed with 479 school children aged between six and 13 years, enrolled in the first grade of public elementary schools of the city of ...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Assis SG,Avanci JQ,Oliveira Rde V

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey carried out in the metropolitan region of S. Paulo between March and July, 1992, shows that of 3,149 low income women aged from 15 to 49, 21.8% had been sterilized. Of those women living in marital union 29.2% had been sterilized and 34.4% were on the pill. Four hundred and seven sterilized women under 40 yea...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Vieira EM

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To apply the temporal-spatial model to assess high-risk areas for the occurrence of dengue fever. METHODS:A total of 11,989 confirmed, autochthonous dengue fever cases, geocoded by address in the city of São José do Rio Preto (Southeastern Brazil), between September of 2001 and August of 2006, were included ...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Galli B,Chiaravalloti Neto F

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess dietary patterns by socioeconomic gradient of Brazilian infants and young children in 2006 and 2013. METHODS:Data from the National Demographic Survey (2006) and the National Health Survey (2013) were used. Food intake were described by wealth index, age range and survey year. Dietary patterns were...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Rinaldi AEM,Conde WL

更新日期：2019-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure for the estimation of the infant mortality rate in Brazil, in the 1980's, based only on the age distribution of registered deaths, is here proposed. Using this technique, it is possible to estimate the probabilities of dying in the first year of life in a continuous way, year by year, for different regions...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Szwarcwald CL,de Castilho EA

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of moral dilemmas in health care practices, in view of the rapid demographic transition in developing countries, and skyrocketing public health care costs, is discussed. The focus is on two aspects of health care that have occupied an important place in the generation of these dilemmas. On the one hand, ...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Guimarães R

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare inpatient and outpatient care costs for pregnant/parturient women with diabetes and mild hyperglycemia. METHODS:A prospective observational quantitative study was conducted in the Perinatal Diabetes Center in the city of Botucatu, Southeastern Brazil, between 2007 and 2008. Direct and indirect cos...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Cavassini AC,Lima SA,Calderon IM,Rudge MV

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe trends in the incidence of Aids cases according to age and gender from 1986 to 2008. METHODS:Analyses of Aids trends according to age group and to gender was carried out Londrina, Southern Brazil. The timeframe was divided into two periods (1986-1995 and 1996-2008). Of the polynomial models, it w...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Lazarini FM,Melchior R,González AD,Matsuo T

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Principal Components Analysis is a multivariate statistical technique for the purpose of examining the interdependence among variables. The main characteristic of this technique is the ability to reduce data, and it is currently used as an adjunct for the development of psychiatric research tools and the classificatio...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Andreoli SB,Mari JJ,Blay SL,de Almeida-Filho N,Coutinho E,França J,Fernandes JG,Busnello ED

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe children's consumption of processed foods and its relationship with per capita family income based on a household survey. METHODS:Food consumption was studied in a statistical sample of 718 children living in the city of São Paulo in the period 1995-1996. A 24-hour dietary recall was used. Data r...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： de Aquino Rde C,Philippi ST

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social representations of tuberculosis are analyzed at the turn of the 20th century, focusing on aspects associated to feelings and contradictory manifestations awakened by the disease. The romanticized pattern of experience of this disease was replaced by a more naturalistic vision, though the stigmas and prejudices ...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Pôrto A

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a trend, with a view to achieving greater scientific visibility and international projection, that favors the adoption of the English language in Brazilian journals dealing with nosological problems. This argument is here questioned. Latin America is a large continent with characteristic health problems. Thus...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Forattini OP

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was the identification of risk factors for benign breast diseases (BBD); 257 women with BBD diagnosed through pathological anatomy or cytology and a matched control for each were studied. Subjects were selected at The State University of Campinas Hospital and at a private clinic. To enter the ...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Hardy EE,Pinotti JA,Osis MJ,Faúndes A

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the impact of air pollution on hospitalizations for respiratory and cardiovascular diseases in the largest Brazilian metropolis. METHODS:This study was carried out at the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, Brazil. Environmental data were obtained from the network of monitoring stations of nine mun...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Gouveia N,Corrallo FP,Leon ACP,Junger W,Freitas CU

更新日期：2017-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To validate the Escala de Autoeficácia para a Autodireção na Saúde (EAAS - Self-efficacy for Self-direction in Health Scale). METHODS:Non-experimental quantitative study of EAAS validation, by confirmatory factorial analyses, evaluating a sample of 508 older adults from the north and the center of Portugal w...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Oliveira AL,Silva JT,Lima MP

更新日期：2016-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A breeding place of Aedes aegypti immature forms were found in bromeliads domesticated for decorative purposes. Implications for the control measures were considered. ...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Forattini OP,Marques GR

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify the maternal characteristics and welcoming actions towards mothers of infants aged less than six months associated with early liquid offer. METHODS:Cross-sectional study performed in 2007, with a representative sample of mothers of infants aged less than six months (n=1,057), users of Primary Hea...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Niquini RP,Bittencourt SA,Lacerda EM,Couto de Oliveira MI,Leal Mdo C

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Elderly choose between utilizing private or public health care providers based on their socioeconomic, demographic, and epidemiological condition. The purposes of this study was to evaluate how these factors affect the choice of health care provider and to compare the impact of their choice on individual and ...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Bós AM,Bós AJ

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An attempt was made to identify the risks resulting from exposure to the chemicals to which workers are exposed as well as from the poor working conditions to which they are subject in a chemical and pharmaceutical factory. A descriptive study based on the "workers model"--a methodological approach developed in Italy ...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Facchini LA,Weiderpass E,Tomasi E

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00