The quality of life is a concept being increasingly used to assess impact of chronic diseases and effectiveness of medical treatments. Its approach in the field of health is usually carried out through self-administered surveys, given the current hig...
Dengue transmission in East-Timor has been known since 2005, but there is no program for monitoring and control of the Aedes aegypti mosquito in this country. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the baited ovitrap as a possible to...
Introduction: The hormonal changes in climacteric women may affect the vestibular system; however, it is not clear in the literature whether the presence of vestibular dysfunction associated with climacteric is related to poorer quality of life. Meth...
This was a cross-sectional study to start a cohort in two University Hospitals of two countries – Brazil and Colombia – for assessing the prevalence of needlestick and sharps injuries (NSI), the level of compliance with standard precautions (SPs)...
The objective of this study was to analyze the spatio-temporal distribution of suicide mortality in the state of Rio Grande do Norte (RN) between 2000 and 2015. This is a mixed ecological study that evaluated the deaths due to suicide registered in t...
The present study aims to identify the prevalence of physical violence against female prisoners in Brazil, as well as related factors. Cross-sectional study of national survey conducted in 15 female prison units in five regions of Brazil in a sample ...
AIM: To estimate the prevalence of access and use of speech-language therapy services and identify the variables associated with access. METHODS: Cross-sectional population-based study. The sample consisted of adult individuals living in Porto Alegre...
The aim was to evaluate the prevalence of utilization of prenatal oral health services and its associated factors, through dataCycle I (2011-12) and II (2013-14) of PMAQ-AB. This cross-sectional, multilevel study had data4,340 women (Cycle I) and 6,2...
