Life expectancy is a synthetic mortality indicator that reflects the general conditions of the population. Changes in mortality by age and causes of death generates no explicit changes in the indicator. The application of a decomposition method can b...
Objetive: To evaluate the prevalence and associated factors with absence of breastfeeding at the hospital discharge in a public maternity from Maceio, Alagoas, Brazil. Methods: Cross-sectional study performed with puerperal at the moment of maternit...
PET-Health is configured as a program developed by health courses guided by the principle Unified Health System (SUS), with the preceptorship of a professionalhealth public service. The aim of the research was to compare the performance between PET-H...
The objective was to develop an instrument to evaluate the knowledge which adult women have of food combinations in order to make iron bioavailable in the children`s diet. We conducted an exploratory factor analysis study (Likert scale) on a questi...
The goal was to adapt the Healthy Eating Index (HEI) to the US Dietary Guidelines for Brazilian children. Cross-sectional study conducted in a population-based sample of 1185 children 13-35 months old of São Luís municipality (MA). A 24-hour dietar...
A corrida pelo ouro na Amazônia elevou os níveis de mercúrio (Hg) no ambiente e, consequentemente, aumentou a exposição humana. Uma vez liberado em sistemas aquáticos, o Hg pode gerar metilmercúrio (MeHg), um composto tóxico que se acumula ao...
Verify the association between incidence of DM and predictors, in a cohort of elderly people.It were analyzed elderly people (≥ 60 y), both genders, participants of SABE Survey, carried out in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, in 2000 (n=2,143) and 2...
Farming is a risky occupation, especially family farming in developing country. In this case, the occupational hazards commonly used in such activity could affect all family members, including children and adolescents. This study describes the patter...
