Background: Sexuality is embedded in a social and cultural origin and its approach must go beyond biological aspects. Questionnaire on Sex Education in Schools (QUSES) assesses the knowledge, comfort, motivation and involvement of teachers in relatio...
Tuberculosis has a close relationship with living conditions. This study classifies Brazilian cities according to the occurrence of tuberculosis (TB) cases and the drug-resistant form (DR-TB), and describes them regarding the population\'s health con...
The prevalence of gestational breast cancer (GBC) is 1:3,000-10,000 pregnancies. The objective is to find out the risk factors associated with GBC. It’s a case-control study spanning the period between January 2004 and December 2014, at a reference...
The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of underweight among older adults according to socio-demographic characteristics in different regions of Brazil as well as determine associated contextual and individual factors. Cross-sectional po...
This article analyzes common elements in the trajectory of people affected by hereditary rare diseases in Brazil, focusing on the search for diagnosis and treatment, and the reproducibility of the family. Rare diseases affect 65 people in every 100 t...
The “Bolsa Família” Program (BFP) is a family conditional - based on offspring education and health criteria - income transfer program, being Brazil’s main strategy to deal with extreme poverty, and social inequality. To meet the educational c...
Dietary practices of college students were compared before and after implementation of the University Restaurant (UR) and examined according to frequency of UR use. A natural experiment was conducted with students (n=1131) of a Brazilian public unive...
This article, drivingAnthropology, presente ethnographic data elaborated in Guariroba, a neighborhood in the capital of Brazil. Between 2008 and 2014, dwellers, usually in their sixties, migrants and blue-collar workers, shared their perceptions on w...
