The main objective of this research is to understand the meaning of the practices concerning food hygiene in a street market in Salvador, the capital of the state Bahia in Brazil. The ethnographic study presents two main categories for symbolic produ...
This paper investigated the occurrence and impact of stressing events for 297 low income children/adolescents (both sexes; 7-16 years, M =11,22; SD = 2,13). The Group 1 (G1) consisted of 142 participants (living with families) and Group 2 (G2) of 155...
Abstract The 2004 national vaccination campaign of elderly people (60 years old and over) against the Influenza virus provided the opportunity of carrying out a descriptive transversal epidemiological study with the objective of comparing the elderl...
Introduction: The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze the assistance provided by the supplementary health care system to the elderly people. Information was collected from interviews with managers of chronic diseases management programs...
Traffic injuries are currently one of the world’s main public health issues in both development and developing countries. This study aimed to describe the circumstances involved in the traffic accidents and the profile of the victims attended at Ho...
Aim:To compare the aging teachers (GP) and non-teachers’(GNP) scores from the voice related quality of life protocol and verify the relation between these scores, the chronological age and the voice change perception. Method:In 47 subjects, 23 GP a...
The human right to adequate food is comprehended in two dimensions: being free of hunger and denutrition e having access to an adequate food. The urban context, in which the possession of food is done primarily through merchandising because of its st...
The study describes the impact of the violence on the families’ quality of life, which were attended in Relatives and Friends Violence Victims Association (ARFVV) in Fortaleza, Ceará. Case’s study accomplished among five mothers that took part i...
