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Saneamento do meio e ocorrência da cólera no Município de Cuamba: estratégias de prevenção e controlo

NHANTUMBO, Brígida K. P. K..
O Município de Cuamba, localiza-se a cerca de 300 Km a sul da cidade capital do Niassa. Desde 2007, tem vindo a registar surtos de cólera, com 2 surtos consecutivos em 2009. OBJECTIVOS: Descrever alguns aspectos do saneamento no Município de Cuamba, analisar as estratégias de prevenção e controlo d...
Food, Knowledge, Cholera, Disease, Health Strategies, Incidence, Drinking, Disease Prevention, Basic Sanitation, Therapeutics, Disease Outbreaks, Solid Waste, Communicable Diseases, Endemic Diseases, Epidemiology, Sanitation
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Avaliação dos serviços de saúde mental em moçambique

Santos, Palmira Fortunato dos.
O instrumento de avaliação de sistemas de saúde mental da organização mundial de saúde (WHO-AIMS) foi usado para a recolha de informações sobre o Programa Nacional de Saúde Mental de Moçambique. O presente estudo tem como objectivo melhorar o Programa Nacional de Saúde Mental e fornecer um pon...
Mental Health, Primary Health Care, Psychiatry, Patients, Mozambique, Workforce, Delivery of Health Care, National Health Programs, Health Policy, Disease Prevention
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Práticas e saberes socioculturais sobre saúde, doença e morte de crianças de 0 a 5 anos de idade, na comunidade de, mopeia (Moçambique)

Chidassicua, José Braz.
Estudo qualitativo que tem como objetivo compreender os significados socioculturais relacionados à saúde, doença e morte de crianças de 0 a 5 anos na comunidade de Mopeia tendo por objeto as campanhas sanitárias governamentais em Moçambique, particularmente, vacinação de crianças, utilização d...
Immunization Programs, 50207, Disease Prevention, Rural Sanitation, Mozambique, Breast Feeding, Vaccination, Communicable Diseases, Health Policy, Infant Mortality/ethnology, Malaria/epidemiology, Health Promotion
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Política nacional da malária

Moçambique. Ministério da saúde.
A Política Nacional de Controlo da Malária oferece a estrutura e as principais linhas orientadoras com as quais o Ministério da Saúde (MISAU) pretende conduzir de uma forma sustentável, e baseada em evidências científicas, o combate a esta endemia, tendo como principal objectivo a redução da mor...
Health Policy, Malaria, Disease Prevention, Community Health Services, Community Participation, Public Health Surveillance, Mozambique, Therapeutics, Endemic Diseases
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Cost effectiveness of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy in southern mozambique

Scuri, Elisa; Bardaji, Azucena; Nhampossa, Tacita; Maixechas, Maria; Nhacolo, Ariel; Nhalungo, Delino; Alonso, L pedro; Menndez, Clara.
PLos ONE; 5 (10), 2010
Malaria in pregnancy is a public health problem for endemic countries. Economic evaluations of malaria preventive strategies in pregnancy are needed to guide health policies. Methods and Findings: This analysis was carried out in the context of a trial of malaria intermittent preventive treatment in preg...
Antimalarials/administration & dosage, Malaria/epidemiology, Malaria/prevention & control, Malaria/complications, Disease Prevention, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Pregnancy Complications, Parasitic/prevention & control, Mozambique/epidemiology, Pregnancy Complications, Parasitic/epidemiology, Sulfadoxine/administration & dosage, Placebos
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Procalcitonin and C-Reactive Protein for Invasive Bacterial Pneumonia Diagnosis among Children in Mozambique, a Malaria-Endemic Area

Padrisa, Nuria Dıez; Bassat, Quique; Machevo, Sonia; Quinto, Llorenc; Nhampossa, Tacilta; Gordo, Cristina O’Callaghan; Torres, Antoni; Alonso, Pedro L; Roca, Anna.
PLos ONE; 5 (10), 2010
Background: Pneumonia is the major cause of mortality and morbidity in children worldwide. Procalcitonin (PCT) and Creactive protein (CRP) are used in developed countries to differentiate between viral and bacterial causes of pneumonia. Validity of these markers needs to be further explored in Africa. Me...
Infant Mortality, Pneumonia, Disease Prevention, Clinical Laboratory Techniques, Anti-Bacterial Agents, Diagnosis, Procalcitonin, Epidemiologic Studies, Mozambique
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Sociocultural and epidemiological aspects of HIV/AIDS in Mozambique

Audet, carolyn m; Burlison, janeen; Moon, troy d; Sidat, mohsin; Vergara, alfredo; Vermund, sten h.
BMC int. health hum. rights; 10 (15), 2010
Background: A legacy of colonial rule coupled with a devastating 16-year civil war through 1992 left Mozambique economically impoverished just as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic swept over southern Africa in the late 1980s. The crumbling Mozambican health care sys...
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/transmission, Chronic Disease, Medication Adherence, Risk Reduction Behavior, Epidemics, Heterosexuality, Microscopy, Electron, Scanning Transmission, Mortality, Prevalence, Health Systems, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Viruses/immunology, Midwifery, Therapeutics, Syndrome, Attitude, Poverty, HIV, Risk, Medication Adherence/statistics & numerical data, Africa/epidemiology, Mozambique/epidemiology, Knowledge, Behavior, Perception, Disease Prevention, Gender Identity, Pharmaceutical Preparations, Ethanol, Delivery of Health Care, Infrastructure
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