Towards a unified theory of health-disease: II. Holopathogenesis.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The increase in life expectancy and the decline in mortality rates in Brazil have an impact on social programs to the elderly, especially related to health care. The objective of the study isto analyze the mortality trends for respiratory diseases in elderly. METHODS:An ecological time series was carried ...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Francisco PM,Donalisio MR,Lattorre Mdo R

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A collection of adult Culicidae was carried out during the period from May 1984 to September 1985, in a rice field in the polder of the Experimental Station of Pariquera-Açú, in the Ribeira Valley (S. Paulo State, Brazil). CDC miniature traps, supplemented with dry ice, were used. A total of 2,686 mosquitoes were coll...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Forattini OP,Gomes Ade C,Kakitani I

更新日期：1989-08-01 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 validate a Spanish version of the Test of Gross Motor Development (TGMD-2) for the Chilean population. METHODS:Descriptive, transversal, non-experimental validity and reliability study. Four translators, three experts and 92 Chilean children, from five to 10 years, students from a primary school in Santia...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Cano-Cappellacci M,Leyton FA,Carreño JD

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE To analyze the sociocultural aspects involved in the decision-making process of vaccination in upper-class and highly educated families. METHODS A qualitative approach based on in-depth interviews with 15 couples from the city of Sao Paulo, Southeastern Brazil, falling into three categories: vaccinators, lat...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Barbieri CL,Couto MT

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the magnitude and growth of homicides among male population according to the geopolitical areas. METHODS:An ecological study including a time series analysis was carried out among 15 to 49 year-old males living in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. Mortality data was collected from the Ministry of H...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： de Lima ML,de Souza ER,Ximenes R,de Albuquerque Mde F,Bitoun J,Barros MD

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

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：OBJECTIVE:To characterize the polypharmacy in primary health care patients and to identify its associated factors. METHODS:This is a cross-sectional, exploratory, and evaluative study, part of the Pesquisa Nacional sobre Acesso, Utilização e Promoção do Uso Racional de Medicamentos - Serviços, 2015 (PNAUM - National S...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Nascimento RCRMD,Álvares J,Guerra AA Junior,Gomes IC,Silveira MR,Costa EA,Leite SN,Costa KS,Soeiro OM,Guibu IA,Karnikowski MGO,Acurcio FA

更新日期：2017-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The philosophy of organ allocation is the result of two seemingly irreconcilable principles: utilitarianism and distributive justice. The process of organ donation and transplantation in Brazil reveals large inequalities between regions and units of the Federation, from the harvesting of organs to their implantation. ...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Rodrigues-Filho EM,Franke CA,Junges JR

更新日期：2019-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess a new impunity index and variables that have been found to predict variation in homicide rates in other geographical levels as predictive of state-level homicide rates in Brazil. METHODS:This was a cross-sectional ecological study. Data from the mortality information system relating to the 27 Brazi...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Nadanovsky P,Celeste RK,Wilson M,Daly M

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral health condition in samples of children from zero to six years old, examined in day nurseries for children from Bauru and S. Paulo County (Brazil) by the caries indicator in primary dentition-dmfs, is assessed. The first group did not receive oral health care where any as the second group received the standard or...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Tomita NE,Bijella VT,Lopes ES,Franco LJ

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the vulnerability for STI/HIV among Mexican indigenous women in common law marriage with men who practice sex without condom. METHODS:Ethnography study undertaken in indigenous villages of Michoacán and Oaxaca, Mexico, in February 2004 and December 2005. These rural communities are characterized ...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Hernández-Rosete D,García OM,Bernal E,Castañeda X,Lemp G

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：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：:This is a cross-sectional study with a randomized choice of individuals aiming at studying the validity of the Brazilian biological exposure limits applied to lead level in the blood (PbB) and delta-aminolevulinic acid in the urine (ALAU), which are 60 micrograms/dl and 10 mg/g.creat., respectively. For this purpose, ...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Cordeiro R,Lima Filho EC,Salgado PE

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From January 2001 to October 2002 captures were made in domicile and peridomiciliary areas of 13 cities of region of Cariri, south of the State of Ceará. As results, the occurrence of P. lutzi in this area was noticed, for the first time, in three cities: the presence of one adult in chicken house in Altaneira, one ad...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Freitas SP,Freitas AL,Gonçalves TC

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Estimate the prevalence of cervical HPV infection among women assisted by the Family Health Strategy and identify the factors related to the infection. METHODS:A cross-sectional study involving 2,076 women aged 20-59 years old residing in Juiz de Fora, State of Minas Gerais, who were asked to participate in ...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Ayres ARG,Silva GAE,Teixeira MTB,Duque KCD,Machado MLSM,Gamarra CJ,Levi JE

更新日期：2017-10-05 00:00:00

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：OBJECTIVE:To assess the behavior of induced abortion as a function of certain demographic variables, for the population of fertile women (15 to 49 years old) residing in the Vila Madalena subdistrict S. Paulo (Brazil). MATERIAL AND METHOD:Two population samples were selected. One sample, with 996 women, investigated t...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： de Souza e Silva R

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort study on acute respiratory infections, involving 270 children observed by pediatricians in their homes every 10 days over a period of 32 months, gave the opportunity to experience logistic and methodological problems seldom described in the literature. The purpose of this article is to alert researchers as to...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Hortal M,Meny M

更新日期：1993-04-01 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：: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：OBJECTIVES:Psychiatric hospitalization though burdensome remains a very important therapeutic option for severely-ill psychiatric patients. Hospitalization in general hospital psychiatry units (GHPU) are often regarded as the best option. A study was carried out with the purpose of assessing socioeconomic and medical v...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Dalgalarrondo P,Botega NJ,Banzato CE

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To conduct the cultural adaptation of the Brazilian version of the Godin-Shephard Leisure-Time Physical Activity Questionnaire (GSLTPAQ) and to assess its content validity, practicability, acceptability and reliability. METHODS:The stages of translation, synthesis, back translation, expert committee review a...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： São-João TM,Rodrigues RC,Gallani MC,Miura CT,Domingues Gde B,Godin G

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Intimate partner abuse is a complex phenomenon and a public health problem and health care services are one of the places sought by women in this situation. The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of violence against women attending a health care center. METHODS:This study was carried out in...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Marinheiro AL,Vieira EM,de Souza L

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the association between dietary patterns and oral cancer. METHODS:The study, part of a Latin American multicenter hospital-based case-control study, was conducted in São Paulo, Southeastern Brazil, between November 1998 and March 2002 and included 366 incident cases of oral cancer and 469 controls...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Marchioni DM,Fisberg RM,Francisco de Góis Filho J,Kowalski LP,Brasilino de Carvalho M,Abrahão M,Latorre Mdo R,Eluf-Neto J,Wünsch Filho V

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：INTRODUCTION:A medical audit on the prenatal care program in the Vila Municipal Health Center, Pelotas, RS, Brazil, was described with the purpose of verifying the aspects of the medical process and improving the program's effectiveness. METHODS:Data from prenatal specific records were collected. Pregnant women with d...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Dias-Da-Costa JS,Madeira AC,Luz RM,Britto MA

更新日期：2000-08-01 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 assess job satisfaction and work impact among providers of a mental health service and their potential association with sociodemographic and job-related variables. METHODS:A cross-sectional study was carried out in 321 employees of a long-stay mental health service in Rio de Janeiro, Southeastern Brazil, ...

journal_title：Revista de saude publica

authors： Rebouças D,Legay LF,Abelha L

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00