ABSTRACT To describe the nutrient consumption profile and verify its association with sociodemographic and health variables, developed a cross-sectional study, population-based on a random sample of 427 elderly residents in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Die...
Some effects of environmental pollutants on human health are known, especially those affecting the cardiovascular system. This study aimed to estimate these effects on the increase of hospitalizations due to cardiovascular diseases. It was an ecologi...
ABSTRACT Objective: To determine the distribution and frequency of intake of benzodiazepine anxiolytics, as well as evaluating the correlation between intake and demographic, epidemiological, economic and social characteristics. Methodology: ecolo...
This study adopted the Social Representation Theory as the theoretical framework, with the aim to characterize similarities and differences of social representations and normative beliefs of aging for different age groups. The 638 participants answer...
Quality of life(QoL) is a subjective construct which can be negatively associated by agents, such as mental disorders, and the presence of Stressful Life Events(SLE’s). Objective: identify the association between socioeconomic and demographic varia...
The Program More Doctors aims to decrease the shortage of physicians and reduce the regional health disparities and involves three main strategies: i) professional qualification, by increasing the number of undergraduate students at Medical Schools u...
There were 2,628 natural disasters in the world during 2005-2010, that caused 712,552 deaths, and affected 1 billion people. In Brazil, floods, landslides, droughts and windstorms resulted in an average of 6,000 deaths and economic losses valued at U...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the knowledge of modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease and its distribution in terms of socioeconomic factors among women living in Rio Grande, RS. A cross-sectional population-based study, with the ...
