The objective of this study was to evaluate the tendency of extreme attitudes regarding body weight among adolescents in Brazilian capitals and to verify its relationship with measures of family support and perception of body image. A cross-sectional...
This study investigates the extent to which aspects of the social integration of older adults are linked to higher levels of fruit and vegetable consumption. Cross-sectional study based on datathe National Study of Dependency in the Elderly, with sam...
Emergency overcrowding is often associated with efficiency issues. However, this work focuses on other relevant aspect, such as the non-urgent Emergency Department attendance. In order to understand the dynamics associated with this aspect, it is con...
The Federal District (DF) has particular characteristics that favor the introduction, reproduction, dissemination and permanence of the dengue vector and viruses. The objective of this work was to analyze the spatiotemporal patterns of dengue epidemi...
The research on abortion in Brazil has pointed to the existence of a paradoxical dynamic about the phenomenon. On the one hand it is a taboo subject and surrounded by stigma, conforming an apparent social invisibility of this practice, and on the oth...
The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship of an instrument of family vulnerability with sociodemographic, dental, and spatial distribution in a given territory. The dependent variable was the classification of family vulnerability, propos...
Objective: To evaluate factors associated with food and nutritional insecurity of families with children under 5 years old living in areas covered by the Family Health Strategy. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study involving 406 familiestwo munic...
This article analyses methodological possibilities of ethnomusicology in the field of Public Health, startingan experience that triangulated ethnomusicological theories with Discourse Analysis (DA); After an introduction to applied ethnomusicology, i...
