School performance is a key aspect for future professional and social success. The objective of the present study was to investigate factors associated with adolescents' school performance including sense of coherence (SOC) and oral health status. Th...
O artigo descreve o escopo da burocracia do governo central brasileiro e o acesso da pessoa com deficiência ao Benefício de Prestação Continuada (BPC). O acesso é dependente da avaliação da condição de vulnerabilidade realizada pela burocrac...
200 million pre-school age children are not developing properly. Delays in child development are associated with multiple factors. This study aims to analyze if vitamin A supplementation is associated with improved development and how this effect cou...
It is a systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate and compare the prevalences of dental fluorosis in Brazilian cities with water supplies treated without fluoridation and in locations with underground water supplies. In December of 2016, cross-...
We examined people’s preferences for place of death and identified factors associated with a home death preference. We asked a representative sample (N=400) of older people (≥ 60 years) residents in the city of Belo Horizonte, about their prefere...
Adolescence is a phase of several structural and functional transformations. Physical exercise is capable of inducing adaptive plasticity on the nervous system, reducing the risks of future psychiatric pathologies. This research is aimed to investiga...
This study explores one of the most interesting and least studied issues in Brazil: the consequences of complex and contradictory experiences by replacing the traditional drinks by cachaça, introduced through interethnic contact. Given the rarity o...
Objective: To investigate the process of medicalization among the natives of the Xukuru people of Pesqueira, PE after the conflict occurred in 2003. Method: a descriptive, cross-sectional, quantitative study developed with the indigenous attended at ...
