The undergraduate courses in Public Health are now a reality in Brazil. The main goal of this article is to present these courses coordinators’ views on the process of their creation and implementation, emphasizing the context in which it happened ...
Purpose: Determine the prevalence of anemia in children attending in day carers centres in the South Central region of Belo Horizonte – MG, identifying biological and socioeconomic factors associated. Methods: Cross sectional descriptive study carr...
Objective:To estimate the prevalence of drug utilization in children between zero and six years old, analyzing associated socio-demographic characteristics, and evaluating the adequation of the drugs related to indications in Pediatrics and restricti...
The smoking habit is increasingly, governments, health authorities and society as a whole, for being a legal drug, that is addictive and lead to serious damage to health. Cigarette smoking causes about 5.4 million deaths/year worldwide and the second...
The aim of this study is describing aspects of the Brazilian children’s food intake and its relation with sociodemographic factors. The 2006 data of food intake of the National Survey on Demography and Health for women and children were analyzed. T...
Goal: To analyze the experience of collective construction of portfolios as a teaching-learning method in the discipline of Health Policy, identifying the competencies developed by students. Methods: Qualitative research, whose collection and data pr...
Due to the centrality of sexual route in HIV transmission, this paper analyses the discourses on sexuality among health professionals and clients from a Counseling and Testing Service (VCT) in the State of Rio de Janeiro. The methodology included dir...
The consumption of psychoactive substances among investigative and military police of the city of Rio de Janeiro was investigated. The data come from two cross-sectional studies on working and health conditions questionnaire administered to a sample ...
