abstract：:Children and youth are currently one of the population segments most heavily jeopardized by the worsening of social, economic, and cultural problems in Brazil. Factors such as lack of government support for a sound, universally accessible school system, income concentration, low wages, unemployment, and family dysfunc...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Cruz Neto O,Moreira MR

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study is to explore some characteristics of women's perspectives on their sexuality, as there is information that associates the population's sexual culture with the incidence of cervical cancer. The value of sexual pleasure, sexual activity after menopause, and ways of preventing cervical cancer ar...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Alvarez SL

更新日期：1998-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Historically, family planning programs have targeted women almost exclusively. More recently it has become clear that men have a strong influence on their partners' use of contraception, either by opposing the use of any or one specific method, or by deciding that a woman has to either use a given method or be sterili...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Duarte GA

更新日期：1998-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the majority of chemical carcinogens are not capable of causing hazardous effects per se, the metabolism of these compounds is a crucial part of the initial host response to the environmental exposure. Disturbances in the balance between activation and detoxification may thus explain the individual variations in...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Conforti-Froes N,el-Zein R,Au W

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) proposed this international historical cohort study trying to solve the controversy about the increased risk of cancer in the workers of the Pulp and Paper Industry. One of the most important aspects presented by this study in Brazil was the strategies used to ove...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Fassa AG,Facchini LA,Dall'Agnol MM

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the schistosomiasis control program implemented in Taquaraçu de Minas, Minas Gerais, from 1985 to 1995. In 1995, we measured the prevalence and intensity of infection for a retrospective comparison with the data from 1985. The local health team was trained to manage all the program activities. The...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Coura-Filho P

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article analyzes how space is employed in infectious disease epidemiology, with a brief retrospective of the various definitions of space and its implications. Emphasis is given to the theory of natural foci of infectious diseases formulated by Pavlovsky and the interactions of epidemiology and geography.The curr...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Silva LJ

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the work performed by garbage collectors in the Rio de Janeiro City Street Cleaning Company (COMLURB) (Rio Comprido division) and its consequences for their health. Data were collected through interviews and on-site video documentation. A detailed description of the work process was performed. In ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Velloso MP,Santos EM,Anjos LA

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a critical reflection on quality of information concerning violence in Brazil, emphasizing some of the main sources of primary data: Public Law Enforcement Departments, Police, and Municipal and State Secretaries of Health. The city of Rio de Janeiro is taken as a typical "case" in this analysis. The hypoth...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Njaine K,Souza ER,Minayo MC,Assis SG

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In view of the lack of information on shift-work schedules and working organization in companies located in Botucatu, São Paulo State, we obtained initial information on areas of economic activity, number of workers, and work schedules from companis by using facsimiles and mailgrams afler receiving a list of companies...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Martinez MA,Oliveira LR

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Domestic and peridomestic triatomine colonization, T. infestans infection rate and human seropositives to Trypanosoma cruzi in rural areas of Empedrado Department, Corrientes, Argentina, were carried out. Methods used in order to search the triatomines, to determine them systematically, to obtain their infection rates...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Bar ME,Damborsky MP,Oscherov EB,Alvarez BM,Mizdraji G,Avalos G

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An external quality assessment in coproparasitology was carried out in 77 laboratories from Havana City. A questionnaire and ten plastic vials with different intestinal parasites in a small nylon bag, duly sealed, were sent to each laboratory. Answers were collected during the 72 hours after delivery. Results were ana...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Angel Núñez F,Ginorio DE,Finlay CM

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the last fifty years, stomach cancer has become less important in terms of morbidity and mortality in developed countries, but the same pattern has not occurred in Brazil. The main risk factors for this neoplasm are certain diet patterns that became evident through epidemiological studies in various population gro...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Britto AV

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stomach cancer, the worl&dacute;s most common malignant neoplasia in 1980, has shown a decrease in death and incidence rates in several countries. Still not totally elucidated, the decline in incidence and death rates has been attributed to environmental factors. It is unlikely that the decline has stemmed primarily f...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Abreu Ed

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscular-skeletal disorders of the upper limbs resulting from work involving repetition strain (RSI) are now the most frequent work-related diseases in early or late industrialized countries. The author maintains that in addition to being work-related diseases, RSIs are symbolic illnesses revealing the contradictions ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Ribeiro HP

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an experimental microcosm, an analysis was performed of the influence exerted by freshwater Mesocyclops longisetus copepods on the survival of Vibrio cholerae O1 serovar Inaba. In the State of Ceará, copepods are used in the control of Aedes aegypti larvae. The system consisted of water with a salinity of 0.27 per ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Araújo DB,Martins SC,Albuquerque LM,Hofer E

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pilot study for the control of Bancroftian filariasis transmission was developed in two areas of Recife, Brazil, where microfilaraemic prevalence was 10% in 1991. Mass treatment with diethylcarbamazine (DEC) using low and spaced doses was employed in both areas. In one such instance, DEC therapy was associated with ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Regis L,Furtado AF,Oliveira CM,Bezerra CB,Silva LR,Araújo J,Maciel A,Silva-Filha MH,Silva SB

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From November 1989 to May 1991, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the prevalence of intestinal parasitosis was investigated in 795 women coming from the Public Health Services, who were divided into three groups: 490 pregnant women in pre-natal care period, 104 after-delivery women and 201 non-pregnant women (control). Copro...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Macedo LM,Rey L

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article deals with the distribution of financial resources allocated to the basic sanitary systems in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area during the 1975-1991 period. The study analyzes the investments allocated by the local utility company, known as Cedae, using a spatial model produced especially for this rese...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Marques EC

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cohort studies of mothers and children (1982 and 1993) were used to document changes in health care utilization patterns. The cohorts included all hospital deliveries in the city of Pelotas, Southern Brazil, for the two years. Some 20% of the mothers and children were visited at home at a median interval of one ye...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Costa JS,Victora CG,Barros FC,Halpern R,Horta BL,Manzolli P

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this article are to propose indicators for evaluation of the quality of hospital management of bronchial asthma patients, based on explicit criteria from literature reviews. The central problem identified in the literature review is the erroneous evaluation of severity of asthma crises, either by pat...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Noronha MF,Machado CV,Lima LD

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The object of this study is the organization of activities in the vaccination program in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, during the process of municipalization of health services, analyzing changes and estimating results. The methodology included a survey performed during supervisory visits and questionnaires with 20 nurse...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Gonçalves Md,Almeida MC,Gera SC

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper's general objective is to evaluate the nutritional adequacy of the food consumed in an Integrated Center of Public Education in the city of Americana, state of Sao Paulo. The data on food consumption in the city of seven to 15 years old was obtained through a recordatory inquiry. To transform the food consum...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： da Silva MV

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the death causes are understood as a result of morbility process that may have been avoided with different kinds of economic, social and welfare services policies and the advance of scientific and technologic knowledges, there is clearly a structural determinism so that many population social sectors can't reach ...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Molina CA,López MV

更新日期：1995-07-01 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：:The objective of the present study was to investigate the significance of linear childhood growth retardation in relation to classroom performance. It began with a Height Census carried out in the 1989 school year, involving children attending the first grade of all public and private schools in Osasco (Greater S o Pa...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Lei DL,Chaves SP,Lerner BR,Stefanini ML

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Field studies on the morbidity of schistosomiasis mansoni were carried out in some rural endemic areas of Northeastern Brazil during the first semester of 1991. These cross-sectional studies were limited to the assessment of the gradient of clinical forms of the disease. The entire population present in a house-to-hou...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Barbosa FS,Gonçalves JF,Melo MC

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of hypovitaminosis A among children of the peripheral districts of the city of Campinas, S o Paulo, Brazil, was estimated by determining serum retinol levels by High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) in a sample of 131 children aged between three and ten years, between April 1991 and February 199...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Gonçalves-Carvalho CM,Amaya-Farfan J,Wilke BC,Vencovsky R

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper deals with the subject of citizenship and people's participation in the health area through an analysis of ideas pertaining to a specific group: health care professionals working in Basic Health Care Clinics in the 3.1 Programmatic Area of the City of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). The article analyzes their view...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Bosi ML

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We discuss autonomy in medical work as resulting from two basic moments: as social work consuming and producing goods and services, reproducing the dominant mode of production and its ethical foundations; and as a service in which autonomy, limited as social work, expresses some attributes acquired by medical work (te...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Ribeiro JM,Schraiber LB

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A descriptive analysis of systems and forms of payment for medical labor was carried out based on an intentional sample of hospitals, according to preestablished criteria. Hospital administrators, physicians, and representatives of medical and entrepreneurial corporations were interviewed. The results were analyzed ac...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Cherchiglia ML

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two districts in Recife (Santo Amaro and Campo Grande) and two districts in Olinda (Sapucaia and Salgadinho), were selected for a comparative study of bancroftian filariasis in Greater Recife. Selection parameters included similar socio-economic, demographic, and endemic levels of lymphatic filariasis. In the district...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Maciel MA,Marzochi KB,Silva EC,Rocha A,Furtado AF

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prevalence study on smoking habits was carried out in 1991, among 864 school children from eight municipal schools in Sapiranga, in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, from the 6th through 8th grade of primary school. Data was collected in class, using a questionnaire applied by trained teachers. Among students,...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Bordin R,Nipper VB,Silva JO,Bortolomiol L

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews the literature on the physical growth of native populations from Brazil. Studies aiming at relating the physical growth patterns of these populations to their nutritional status are relatively recent and still do not provide a comprehensive picture of the situation. Compared to non-indigenous Brazil...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Santos RV

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Brazil, the trade union structure created by authoritarian corporatism in the 1930's began to change when the cycle of the military regime installed in 1964 came to an end. With redemocratization, the trade union movement began to coexist with the organization of pluralistic interests, a process which has influence...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Ribeiro JM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present the results of a dermatological survey conducted among the Xavánte Indians from the Pimentel Barbosa Reservation, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil Scabies, pediculosis, and pioderma were the most frequent diseases, clearly related to poor hygiene. The finding of perleche indicates the presence of nutri...

journal_title：Cadernos de saude publica

authors： Alvarez RR,Campbell I,Friedman H,Bertoli ML,Gama GB,Diaz LA

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

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