Studies show that people in vulnerable conditions have suffered more intensely the impacts of the pandemic of COVID-19, as well as some social groups such as women and black people. This expression of inequality also manifests itself among healthcare...
Chagas disease (CD) is recognized by the World Health Organization as one of the thirteen most neglected tropical diseases in the world. Self-perceived health is considered a better predictor of mortality than objective measures of health status, and...
The characteristics of the food environment can interfere with physical access to healthy foods and accentuate health inequalities. The presence of food swamps, that is, the greater availability of establishments that sells mostly ultra-processed pro...
Cross-sectional study conducted with 492 participants in the rural area of Coari (AM) that aimed to identify food patterns of residents of riverine in the middle Solimões river region and their associated factors. We evaluated food intake using a br...
This article presents the evolution of fake news disseminated about vaccines and the Sars-CoV-2 virus and this phenomenon\'s negative impacts on the health crisis that Brazil is going through. This is a quantitative empirical study, based on the noti...
This paper analyzes the concept of mental healtha review of the scientific literature and addresses some methodological considerations to guide the analysis of the scientific literature.
The paper analyzes the food insecurity (FI) in urban and rural areas of the Northeast region of Brazil associated with certain social determinants and access to governmental benefits/programs. Data about FIthe Household Budget Survey (2017-2018) of B...
Objective: To evaluate the association of the prevalence of seric zinc deficiency with cognitive impairment in community elderly. Methods: Cross-sectional study with data591 older adults, users of primary carethe municipalities of Campinas, Limeira a...
