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Sexual violence against men in Brazil: underreporting, prevalence, and associated factors

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVES Identifying and mapping the literature regarding sexual violence against Brazilian boys and men, as well as describing its underreporting, prevalence, and associated factors. METHODS We conducted a scoping review by searching PubMed, Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Disser...

Subnotificação de desfechos desfavoráveis da sífilis congênita no Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação no estado de São Paulo, 2007-2018

Epidemiol. serv. saúde; 32 (2), 2023
Objetivo: descrever a frequência de subnotificação de desfechos desfavoráveis da sífilis congênita no estado de São Paulo, Brasil, 2007-2018. Métodos: estudo descritivo dos casos de aborto, óbitos fetais e não fetais por sífilis congênita notificados no Sistema de Informação de Agravos de...

Sexual violence against men in Brazil: underreporting, prevalence, and associated factors

OBJECTIVES: Identifying and mapping the literature regarding sexual violence against Brazilian boys and men, as well as describing its underreporting, prevalence, and associated factors. METHODS: We conducted a scoping review by searching PubMed, Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações, B...

Missed opportunities in preventing mother-to-child transmission of syphilis in the indigenous population in central Brazil

Abstract Objectives: to estimate the detection rate of syphilis in pregnant women, the occurrence of congenital syphilis, and the rate of mother-to-child transmission of syphilis, in addition to analyzing missed opportunities in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission in the indigenous population...

Certificado médico de defunción sin autopsia clínica en el primer nivel de atención de salud, ¿subregistro estadístico?
Medical certificate of death without clinical autopsy in the first level of health care, statistical underreporting?

Estimado editor:La confección del Certificado Médico de Defunción (CMD) es una de las habilidades que debe adquirir el médico en su desempeño profesional. Es excepcional que un colega no haya debido firmar, al menos una vez en su vida, un documento de este tipo. De la exactitud e integridad con que ...

A gravidade oculta da pandemia de COVID-19 em crianças e adolescentes no Brasil sob uma perspectiva tempo-espacial
The hidden severity of the covid-19 pandemic in children and adolescents in Brazil from a time-spatial perspective

Introdução: A covid-19 foi declarada como pandemia pela Organização Mundial de Saúde em março de 2020 e, ainda no primeiro semestre da pandemia, o Brasil alcançou o segundo lugar no número total de óbitos acumulados no mundo. Crianças e adolescentes, incialmente, foram os menos atingidos pela c...

(Re)violências socialmente infligidas a meninos sexualmente abusados por mulheres

Psicol. rev; 30 (2), 2021
No Brasil, foram reportados aproximadamente 776 casos de abuso sexual infantil (ASI) contra crianças e adolescentes do sexo masculino perpetrado por abusadoras femininas entre 2011 e 2017 (Brasil, 2018). Diversos estudos demonstram evidências de um processo particular na experiência do ASI de meninos,...

Persistence and underreporting of schistosomiasis mansoni in a municipality in Minas Gerais’ Zona da Mata

Background and Objectives: Schistosomiasis mansoni is a neglected chronic disease caused by Schistosoma mansoni, which is endemic in Brazil. It presents systemic involvement and its clinical manifestations range from dermatitis to severe clinical syndromes, including neurological and/or hepatic manifesta...

Prevention measures for vertical HIV transmission: monitoring infected pregnant women and exposed children

Abstract Objectives: to present an analysis of the follow-up of exposed children and pregnant women living with HIV who are assisted in a reference public healthcare service of a Brazilian capital. Methods: this is a cross-sectional study with sociodemographic and clinical data obtainedfrom physical an...

Maternal mortality by COVID-19 in Brazil

Abstract SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus of severe acute respiratory syndrome, which causes a predominantly respiratory disease called COVID-19, quickly caused a pandemic, due to its high transmissibility, leaving a trail of deaths around the world. Initially, the pregnancy puerperal cycle was not associ...