OBJECTIVE To analyze oral health behaviors changes over time in Brazilian adolescents concerning maternal educational inequalities.METHODS Data from the Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde do Escolar(Brazilian National School Health Survey) were analyzed. The sample was composed of 60,973 and 61,145 students fro...
OBJECTIVE To analyze if the nutritional status of children aged less than five years is related to the biological conditions of their mothers, environmental and socioeconomic factors, and access to health services and social programs.METHODS This cross-sectional population-based study analyzed 664 mother...
Estatura,
Índice de Masa Corporal,
Peso Corporal,
Brasil/epidemiología,
Estudios Transversales,
Accesibilidad a los Servicios de Salud/estadística & datos numéricos,
Madres,
Encuestas Nutricionales,
Estado Nutricional,
Factores de Riesgo,
Factores Socioeconómicos,
Avitaminosis/epidemiología
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the physical inactivity-related inpatient costs of chronic non-communicable diseases. METHODS This study used data from 2013, from Brazilian Unified Health System, regarding inpatient numbers and costs due to malignant colon and breast neoplasms, cerebrovascular diseases, ischemi...
Brasil/epidemiología,
Enfermedad Crónica/clasificación,
Enfermedad Crónica/economía,
Enfermedad Crónica/epidemiología,
Ejercicio Físico,
Costos de la Atención en Salud,
Hospitalización/economía,
Programas Nacionales de Salud,
Características de la Residencia,
Factores de Riesgo,
Conducta Sedentaria,
Factores Sexuales
OBJECTIVE To analyze if metabolic syndrome and its altered components are associated with demographic, socioeconomic and behavioral factors in fixed-shift workers.METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 902 shift workers of both sexes in a poultry processing plant in Southern Brazil ...
Factores de Edad,
Brasil/epidemiología,
Estudios Transversales,
Síndrome Metabólico/epidemiología,
Salud Laboral/estadística & datos numéricos,
Prevalencia,
Factores de Riesgo,
Factores Sexuales,
Factores Socioeconómicos,
Circunferencia de la Cintura,
Tolerancia al Trabajo Programado
OBJECTIVE To analyze the prevalence of individuals at risk of dependence and its associated factors.METHODS The study was based on data from the Catalan Health Survey, Spain conducted in 2010 and 2011. Logistic regression models from a random sample of 3,842 individuals aged ≥ 15 years were used to...
OBJECTIVE To describe the trend for malignant skin neoplasms in subjects under 40 years of age in a region with high ultraviolet radiation indices.METHODS A descriptive epidemiological study on melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancers that was conducted in Goiania, Midwest Brazil, with 1,688 people under 40...
OBJECTIVE To test whether the occupational conditions of professional truck drivers are associated with amphetamine use after demographic characteristics and ones regarding mental health and drug use are controlled for.METHODS Cross-sectional study, with a non-probabilistic sample of 684 male truck drive...
OBJECTIVE To analyze the spatial distribution of risk for tuberculosis and its socioeconomic determinants in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.METHODS An ecological study on the association between the mean incidence rate of tuberculosis from 2004 to 2006 and socioeconomic indicators of the Censo Demogr...
OBJECTIVE To analyze the factors associated with stiffness of the great arteries in prepubertal children.METHODS This study with convenience sample of 231 schoolchildren aged 9-10 years enrolled in public and private schools in Vitória, ES, Southeastern Brazil, in 2010-2011. Anthropometric and hemodynam...
This study aimed to show, based on the literature on the subject, the potential for dispersal and establishment of the chikungunya virus in Brazil. The chikungunya virus, a Togaviridae member of the genusAlphavirus, reached the Americas in 2013 and, the following year, more than a million cases were repo...
