Introduction: population aging poses challenges to public health, including oral health, which is affected by conditions such as tooth loss and edentulism. Objectives: to analyze edentulism-free life expectancy (EF-LE) and good self-assessed oral hea...
This ecological study analyzed the temporal trend of special dietary needs in children aged 2 to 12 enrolled in the public school system of Belo Horizonte (MG) between 2014 and 2023. Secondary data from medical reports filed at schools, provided by t...
Transtornos alimentares (TA) são prevalentes entre indivíduos de minorias sexuais e de gênero, incluindo lésbicas, gays, bissexuais, transgêneros, queer, intersexuais, assexuais e outros indivíduos (LGBT). O objetivo foi investigar se a ansieda...
The objective of this study was to analyze the geographic and structural barriers that hinder access to health services in quilombola communities in the Brazilian Amazon, proposing solutions based on public policies and community initiatives that pro...
The study aimed to analyze the contribution of socioeconomic markers to the gender gap in functional limitation among older Brazilian adults. This is a cross-sectional study using data from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSI-Brazil) (201...
Children discharged from Neonatal Units require specialized monitoring due to the complexity of the care. There is a lack of follow-up services after discharge from Neonatal Units and a lack of integration between the different levels of care, demons...
Primary Health Care has great potential to intensify Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) actions. Municipal Health Plans (PMS) define actions to be developed and establish an intersectoral agenda for promoting FNS according to the characteristics and d...
Health Assessment in Brazil within the scope of Public Health has been constituted as a plural practice, from its methodological choices to its approaches and objects. However, there are canons that determine the ways of thinking and practicing Healt...
