Polypharmacy: a challenge for the primary health care of the Brazilian Unified Health System.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the prevalence of adequate control of hypertension among older adults and to examine its association with predisposing and enabling factors and the need to use health services. METHODS:The analysis was carried out with 4,148 participants (≥ 50 years) from the baseline of the Brazilian Longitudina...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Firmo JOA,Mambrini JVM,Peixoto SV,Loyola Filho AI,Souza Junior PRB,Andrade FB,Lima-Costa MF

更新日期：2018-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a case report of the first accident involving a scorpion Tityus serrulatus in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil, that occurred in March, 2001. A 21-year-old male patient, while handling vegetables proceeding from other Brazilian states, was bitten by a scorpion Tityus serrulatus, developing local and systemic r...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Torres JB,Marques Mda G,Martini RK,Borges CV

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vero cells used by distinct measles vaccine control laboratories had their susceptibility to Moraten, Schwarz and Biken CAM-70 vaccine strains assayed. Of a total of 72 lots of measles vaccine whose potency was titrated by microtechnique in two Vero cell samples (Vero IB and Vero INCQS), 25 had been produced with Mora...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Takata CS,Kubrusly FS,Miyaki C,Mendes IF,de Rizzo E

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the adaptation to Portuguese of the short version of the "job stress scale", originally in English. METHODS:We evaluate six aspects of equivalence between the original scale and the Portuguese version: conceptual, semantic, operational, item, measurement, and functional equivalences. A reliabilit...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Alves MG,Chor D,Faerstein E,Lopes Cde S,Werneck GL

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The publications committee of a multicenter study has the aim of organizing the proposals for articles, so as to ensure wide-ranging access to the data, quality and precedence. An online information and management system for study proposals (publiELSA) was developed, composed of three modules: (i) submission and appro...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Carvalho MS,Barreto ML,Coeli CM,Raposo RM,Mota EL,Duncan BB

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Available information on organochlorines and the chronic effects of exposure to them are set out. Organochlorinated compounds are the most persistent pesticides and can be found in all ecosystems. Although they are generally efficient in pest control, they are also a potent environment pollutant and can provoke health...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Nunes MV,Tajara EH

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the mortality pattern among children enrolled in public day care centers. METHODS:This was a descriptive study of the mortality pattern among children aged from 0 to 6 years and 11 months who were enrolled in all the public day care centers in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, from 1995 to 1999. The...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Vico ES,Laurenti R

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents a systematic framework for modeling several classes of illness-sickness-disease named as Holopathogenesis. Holopathogenesis is defined as processes of over-determination of diseases and related conditions taken as a whole, comprising selected facets of the complex object Health. First, a conceptu...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Almeida Filho N

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare cancer hospital morbidity among the local population and the immigrant population in Chile. METHODS:This is a prevalence study based on the analysis of hospital discharges of all the health centers of Chile. Cancer hospital discharges were characterized in 2012 according to the migratory status. T...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Oyarte M,Delgado I,Pedrero V,Agar L,Cabieses B

更新日期：2018-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess costs and consequences of prenatal care on perinatal morbidity and mortality. METHODS:Evaluation study using two types of analysis: implementation and efficiency analysis, carried out at 11 Family Health Units in the Recife, Northeastern Brazil, in 2006. The costs were calculated by means of the ac...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Vidal SA,Samico IC,Frias PG,Hartz ZM

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify associations of chronic back pain with sociodemographic characteristics, lifestyles, body mass index, self-reported chronic diseases and health assessment, according to sex. METHODS:We analyzed data from the 2013 National Health Survey, estimated the prevalence and their respective 95% confidence...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Malta DC,Oliveira MM,Andrade SSCA,Caiaffa WT,Souza MFM,Bernal RTI

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the quality of information registered on fetal death certificates. METHODS:Records were reviewed from 710 fetal deaths registered in the consolidated database of deaths from the State System for Data Analysis and the São Paulo State Secretary of Health, for deaths in São Paulo municipality (South...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Almeida MF,Alencar GP,Schoeps D,Minuci EG,Silva ZP,Ortiz LP,Novaes HM,Alencar AP,Raspantini PR,Santos PC

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Describe the clinical and epidemiological profile of confirmed cases of yellow fever whose patients were hospitalized in a general hospital for infectious diseases in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from March 11, 2017 to June 15, 2018, during a recent outbreak and factors associated with death. METHODS...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Escosteguy CC,Pereira AGL,Marques MRVE,Lima TRA,Galliez RM,Medronho RA

更新日期：2019-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the association between pre-gestational obesity and weight gain with cesarean delivery and labor complications. METHODS:A total of 4,486 women 20-28 weeks pregnant attending general prenatal care clinics of the national health system in Brazil from 1991 to 1995 were enrolled and followed up through...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Seligman LC,Duncan BB,Branchtein L,Gaio DS,Mengue SS,Schmidt MI

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:998 children aged 6, 8 and 10, from low income families living in the Federal District, Brazil and attending public, first grade, schools, received bi-annual topical APF Gel-Tray applications. The mass methodology proposed by the National Dental Caries Preventive Program of the Brazilian Ministry of Health, without pr...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Pinto IL

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess whether the incidence of hospital infection by a resistant microorganism decreased after the implementation of the restrictive measure of the National Health Surveillance Agency for the commercialization of antimicrobials. METHODS:A historical cohort study of medical records of adult patients admit...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Costa JMD,Moura CS,Pádua CAM,Vegi ASF,Magalhães SMS,Rodrigues MB,Ribeiro AQ

更新日期：2019-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify factors that lead people to visit a doctor in Brazil and assess differences between socioeconomic groups. METHODS:A cross-sectional study comprising 1,260 subjects aged 15 or more was carried out in southern Brazil. Demographic, socioeconomic, health needs and regular source of care data were ana...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Mendoza-Sassi R,Béria JU,Barros AJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the prevalence of hospitalizations and to identify characteristics associated with hospital admission. METHODS:We carried out a population-based cross-sectional study of subjects of both sexes, aged 20-69 years, and who lived in the urban area of Pelotas, Southern Brazil, between 1999 and 2000. S...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Costa JS,Reis MC,Silveira Filho CV,Linhares Rda S,Piccinini F,Fantinel E

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the study was to estimate the prevalence of extreme anthropometric measurements in children indicative of their nutritional status. A cross-sectional study was conducted in a random sample of 1,386 children under five in the state of Alagoas, northeastern Brazil. The prevalence of deficits (z <-2; WHO...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Ferreira Hda S,Luciano SC

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze if characteristics of managers, schools, and curriculum are associated with the implementation of programs for drug abuse prevention in elementary and high schools. METHODS:Cross-sectional study, with random sample of 263 school managers. Data were collected between 2012 and 2013 by a program that...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Pereira AP,Paes ÂT,Sanchez ZM

更新日期：2016-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A first step in the pilot-study undertaken as part of a research project on psychiatric morbidity--depression and organic brain syndrome--in the elderly population of Rio de Janeiro is described. The main objective is to "fine-tune" the instrument used (check list of DSM-III) and testing validity of the BOAS questionn...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Veras RP,Coutinho E,Ney G Júnior

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the assistance, management and workers' education models of a network of psychosocial healthcare services (CAPS). METHODS:This is a qualitative evaluation research, supported by the Gadamerian hermeneutics, carried out in the city of Campinas, Southeastern Brazil, in 2006-2007. Data were collected...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Campos RT,Furtado JP,Passos E,Ferrer AL,Miranda L,Gama CA

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All babies born in the hospitals of the city of Pelotas, Brazil, in 1982 were studied soon after delivery and followed up prospectively during the first years of their lives. In 1993, this study was repeated with a similar methodology, with the aim of assessing eventual changes in the level of maternal and child healt...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Victora CG,Barros FC,Halpern R,Menezes AM,Horta BL,Tomasi E,Weiderpass E,Cesar JA,Olinto MT,Guimarães PR,Garcia MM,Vaughan JP

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distinguishing characteristics of the definitions of health promotion and health education are here examined. Two different planning frameworks, the PRECEDE-PROCEDE and the HELPSAM models are introduced. Solutions can be directed in two major directions are discussed: individual changes and organizational changes....

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Candeias NM

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to identify the use of phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors among university students from the city of Sao Paulo (SP) in Brazil. Male students (n=350) replied to a questionnaire about diagnosis of erectile dysfunction, the frequency and reason for the use of phosphodiesterase type 5 inhi...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Freitas VM,Menezes FG,Antonialli MM,Nascimento JW

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Domestic violence against children has been a subject of concern to many Brazilian institutions, though there are few studies about the services offered to the community. The aim of this study is to evaluate administrative and operational aspects of the SOS Criança and provide insight to similar programs w...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Gonçalves HS,Ferreira AL,Marques MJ

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Description of Lutzomyia robusta, n. sp. (Diptera, Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) from interandean areas of Peru and Equador. Lutzomyia robusta, n. sp., probable vector of human bartonellosis and cutaneous leishmaniasis, is described and illustrated. This species presents strong affinity with L. serrana (Damasceno & Arou...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Galati EA,Cáceres AG,Le Pont F

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anopheles aquasalis has shown local variations in blood-host preference in Brazil: it seems to be anthropophilic in the northeast and zoophilic or opportunistic in the Amazon and other regions. A study was carried out in Guapimirim county, State of Rio de Janeiro, from May to November 1992, for the purpose of identify...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Flores-Mendoza C,Cunha RA,Rocha DS,Lourenço-de-Oliveira R

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Studies on the evolution of infant mortality rate are very relevant. Nevertheless, lack of vital statistics in Brazil limits the temporal and spatial analysis of this indicator. This study aims to investigate the possible use of the Brazilian Hospital Information System as an alternative information source fo...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Schramm JM,Szwarcwald CL

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00