Abstract The objective was to identify the impact of social distance in the management of noncommunicable diseases (NCD) in the adult population from the state of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil. This is an ambispective, population-based cohort study. Descriptive analysis and Poisson regression models...
Ter uma fonte habitual de cuidado pode melhorar o acesso a serviços de saúde e ações de prevenção. Assim, o objetivo foi estimar a proporção e fatores associados à fonte habitual de cuidado entre mulheres trabalhadoras do sexo. É um inquérito sociocomportamental com 4.328 mulheres trabalhadora...
ABSTRACT: Objective: To investigate sociodemographic factors associated with the willingness to take the pandemic influenza vaccine. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study of Brazilian civil servants participating in the fourth wave (2012-2013) of the longitudinal Pró-Saúde Study. Associations were...
INTRODUCCIÓN: El virus del papiloma humano (VPH) produce la infección viral transmitida por vía sexual más frecuente del mundo. Una estrategia para reducir las tasas de infección por este virus es la vacunación a mujeres jóvenes de entre 9 a 13 años, por lo que es imperioso asegurar el máximo gr...
SUMMARY PURPOSE To analyze the level of knowledge about and the acceptability of the HPV vaccine among vaccinated and unvaccinated adolescents in the Western Amazon. METHODS A cross-sectional study on adolescents aged 10 to 19 years. The instrument used to collect data contains demographic and socioe...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of non-vaccination against influenza among Brazilian older adults with systemic arterial hypertension and determine the main reasons for non-adherence. A cross-sectional study was conducted using data from older adults (≥ 60 years of age...
Para contener la pandemia de COVID-19 se han adoptado medidas nacionales estrictas de aislamiento social y se han reorganizado los sistemas de salud. En este período, se observaron cambios en la atención de enfermedades no infecciosas. El objetivo de este trabajo fue describir las consecuencias de la p...
RESUMEN Objetivo: establecer los aspectos sociales que afectaron la aceptación de la vacuna del virus del papi- loma humano (VPH) en la población colombiana antes y después del evento mal definido e inusitado de etiología desconocida sucedido en 2014. Materiales y métodos: se realizó una búsqu...
Abstract Objective To assess the use of the intensive care unit (ICU) and its effect on maternal mortality (MM) among women with severe maternal morbidity (SMM). Materials and Methods A secondary analysis of a cross-sectional study on surveillance of SMM in 27 Brazilian obstetric referral centers. The ...