Resultados: 219

Social determinants of health and vulnerabilities to sexually transmitted infections in adolescents

ABSTRACT Objective: To verify the association between social determinants of health and the vulnerability of adolescents to Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs). Method: Cross-sectional study, performed with 287 students aged 11 to 17 years, in the outskirts of Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, from August ...

Socio-environmental risks associated with the green tobacco sickness in farmers: a case-control study

ABSTRACT Objective: to determine the presence of socio-environmental risk factors for the development of Green Tobacco Sickness in workers who grow Burley tobacco. Method: matched case-control study. The data collection took place in two moments: from December 2016 to January 2017 and December 2017, wh...

Premature mortality caused by the main chronic noncommunicable diseases in the Brazilian states

ABSTRACT Objective: To verify the variation of the premature mortality rate caused the group of the main chronic noncommunicable diseases. Method: This is a time-series ecological study, which used secondary data of the Mortality Information System, from 2006 to 2014, from the 26 federal units and from...

Common mental disorders and resilience in homeless persons

ABSTRACT Objective: To identify common mental disorders and resilience in homeless persons. Method: Cross-sectional study with 49 homeless persons, assisted in the Casa da Acolhida Adulta and the Specialized Reference Center in a municipality in the Northeast of Brazil. Data collection performed betwee...

Prevalência e evitabilidade de eventos adversos cirúrgicos em hospital de ensino do Brasil

Objetivo estimar a prevalência e evitabilidade de eventos adversos cirúrgicos em hospital de ensino e classificar os eventos segundo o tipo de incidente e grau do dano. Método estudo transversal e retrospectivo realizado em duas fases. Na fase I, enfermeiros realizaram revisão retrospectiva em amo...

Directly observed treatment for tuberculosis in the State of São Paulo

ABSTRACT Objectives: To describe and analyze the coverage profile of directly observed treatment for tuberculosis in 59 priority municipalities in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, through the creation and comparison of groups homogenized by the number of people in each municipality from 2006 to 2012. ...

Spatial analysis on tuberculosis and the network of primary health care

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the spatial distribution of new cases of tuberculosis compared to the location of the Primary Healthcare Units that performed the compulsory notification. Method: ecological study conducted in Belém, Pará, with 5,294 new cases of tuberculosis notified to Sistema de Info...

Epidemiological profile of tuberculosis cases with HIV coinfection in Porto Alegre city, Brazil

ABSTRACT Objective: To describe and compare the epidemiological profile of cases of tuberculosis and HIV coinfection of the District Administration Health Units of Porto Alegre, Brazil, from 2009 to 2013. Method: Retrospective cohort with data from national health information systems. Sociodemographic...

Hepatitis B and Delta: clinical aspects of patients in the Brazilian Western Amazonia

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze clinical, serological, biochemical and hematological aspects in patients infected with the hepatitis B (HBV) and Delta (HDV) viruses. Method: cross-sectional, descriptive and retrospective study, performed with patients chronically infected with HBV and superinfected with...

Temporal trend of leprosy in a region of high endemicity in the Brazilian Northeast

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the temporal trend and epidemiological patterns of leprosy indicators in Sobral, a municipality countryside of the state of Ceará, from 2001 to 2016. Method: a time series study based on data from the Department of Informatics of the Unified Health System. The time trend...