Over half of the Brazilian adult population is overweight. Due to this alarming fact, it is necessary to understand not only the individual factors, but also the characteristics of the social and built environments in which people are inserted. A cro...
Obesity-related prejudice and discrimination may have a source in health professionals and students. The objective was to assess anti-fat attitudes among Brazilian nutrition undergraduates (n=629) who reported demographic data, weight, height and res...
This is a review of the literature on family caregivers of patients with Alzheimer\'s disease2013 to 2017 available in the VHL, Scopus and Pubmed databases. Descriptors used: Alzheimer\'s disease, caregivers, elderly health, by combination. Of the 16...
Qualitative descriptive-analytical study developed in a primary health care unit organized by the ESF. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with five health professionals: two doctors, a nurse and two health agents (ACS). Guiding topics of the i...
Primary Health Care is a care model whose attributes contribute to solving most of the health problems of older adults in Brazil’s increased longevity. This investigation aims to analyze the care provided to the dependent older adults and their car...
Cross-sectional study on the availability of prescribed medicines in Primary Health Care (PHC), with a probabilistic sample of 1,221 patientsPHC public pharmacies in a health pole municipality in Minas Gerais, 2017. We estimated indicators of medicin...
Spatial and temporal analysis of Covid-19's interiorization in Pernambuco, considering the correlated socioeconomic factors. Ecological study, March to June 2020. Maps were generated from the incidence coefficient by municipality of residence to dete...
Introduction: Several studies are limited by verifying the level of physical activity with questionnaires and not through objective measurement (accelerometry) in older adults. Aim: To analyze the association between a low level of physical activity ...
