The article aims to identify food consumption, physical activity and socioeconomic factors associated with body fat percentage in schoolchildren 7-14 years old. This is a crosssectional study with a probability sample of 2481 students from public and...
Aimed to verify the health and socioeconomic factors associated with quality of life of the elderly community. Cross-sectional analytical study and quantitative conducted between the years 2012 to 2013 with 3430 seniors living in 24 municipalities in...
Community participation represents the main strategy to maintain entomological surveillance of Chagas disease. This study aims to evaluate knowledge of triatomines and Chagas disease among residents from eight localities in the municipality of Diaman...
The aim of this study was to analyse differences in quality of life (QOL) between Spanish and Portuguese immigrant and native adolescents. In total, 475 native and immigrant adolescents (52% boys) from Algarve (Portugal) and Huelva (Spain), aged betw...
The use of medications for the treatment of dyslipidemia is relevant in the control of cardiovascular diseases. Objective: Analyze the prevalence, the use and the participation of the public sector in the supply of medicines for adults aged 40 years ...
OBJECTIVE: Analyze trends in excess weight (overweight, obesity and class III obesity) among adults (≥ 18 years old) in Brazilian capitals, between 2006 and 2013. METHODS: study of excess weight temporal trends, using self-reported data fro...
Pneumonia is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in childhood, mainly in developing countries, especially in vulnerable groups. The aim of this study was to analyze associated factors the pneumonia in Yanomami children hospitalized for ambul...
This study aimed to characterize the degree of patients’ knowledge regarding their prescribed drug in public dental services in Porto Alegre, verify the occurrence of verbal prescribing practice by dentists and individual sources of drug informatio...
