Health Programmes
Mostrando 1-12 de 152 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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1. Knowledge, Attitude and Awareness to Dental Caries Among Indian Children and Adolescents: A Case-Control Study
Abstract Objective: To assess paternal education, parental occupation, family income, level of knowledge and to determine the attitude and awareness of cases and controls in relation to dental caries and its risk factors in 6-18 years old respondents. Material and Methods: A case-control study was carried out in the outpatient Department of Pediatric and P
Pesqui. Bras. Odontopediatria Clín. Integr.. Publicado em: 31/10/2019
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2. Aspectos nutricionais de pessoas acometidas por hanseníase, entre 2001 e 2014, em municípios do semiárido brasileiro
Resumo O estudo buscou caracterizar a insegurança alimentar, o estado nutricional e os hábitos alimentares de pessoas acometidas por hanseníase. Trata-se de um estudo transversal descritivo, de população censitária, em que foram avaliados 276 casos, notificados no Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação, entre 2001 e 2014, nos municípios d
Ciênc. saúde coletiva. Publicado em: 22/07/2019
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3. Risk factors for human Mycobacterium bovis infections in an urban area of Brazil
BACKGROUND The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified human zoonotic tuberculosis (TB) due to Mycobacterium bovis as a neglected issue in the developing world. In a recent cross-sectional study in Brazil, three of 189 TB patients presented with a coinfection of M. bovis and M. tuberculosis and were selected as cases for this study. OBJECTIVE The ai
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz. Publicado em: 11/06/2018
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4. Therapeutic approaches for deaf children at intervention centers in Chile’s metropolitan region: access to health and education
ABSTRACT Aim: to characterize the health or education centers that work with deaf children from an early age. Methods: a survey of those in charge of centers for people with hearing loss (N=5), special schools for the deaf (N=3) and hospitals in which therapeutic intervention for people with hearing impairments (N=6) was carried out in Santiago, Chile in 2
Rev. CEFAC. Publicado em: 2018-05
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5. Pilates for low back pain
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Non-specific low back pain is a major health problem worldwide. Interventions based on exercises have been the most commonly used treatments for patients with this condition. Over the past few years, the Pilates method has been one of the most popular exercise programmes used in clinical practice. OBJECTIVES: To determine the effects
Sao Paulo Med. J.. Publicado em: 2016-08
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6. Control programme for cystic echinococcosis in Uruguay
Cystic echinococcosis is a highly endemic parasitic zoonosis that is present in the Southern Cone countries of America. For several decades, various prevention and control programmes have been implemented in different countries and regions, with varying results. In Uruguay, a new control programme was implemented in 2006 that employed new strategies for cani
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz. Publicado em: 24/05/2016
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7. Decentralising HIV treatment in lower- and middle-income countries
BACKGROUND: Policy makers, health staff and communities recognise that health services in lower- and middle-income countries need to improve people's access to HIV treatment and retention to treatment programmes. One strategy is to move antiretroviral delivery from hospitals to more peripheral health facilities or even beyond health facilities. This could in
Sao Paulo Med. J.. Publicado em: 2014-12
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8. A decade of malaria during pregnancy in Brazil: what has been done concerning prevention and management
In Brazil, malaria remains a disease of major epidemiological importance because of the high number of cases in the Amazonian Region. Plasmodium spp infections during pregnancy are a significant public health problem with substantial risks for the pregnant woman, the foetus and the newborn child. In Brazil, the control of malaria during pregnancy is primaril
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz. Publicado em: 06/06/2014
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9. Interventions for preventing obesity in children
BACKGROUND: Prevention of childhood obesity is an international public health priority given the significant impact of obesity on acute and chronic diseases, general health, development and well-being. The international evidence base for strategies that governments, communities and families can implement to prevent obesity, and promote health, has been acc
Sao Paulo Med. J.. Publicado em: 2014
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10. Physical training for asthma
BACKGROUND: People with asthma may show less tolerance to exercise due to worsening asthma symptoms during exercise or other reasons such as deconditioning as a consequence of inactivity. Some may restrict activities as per medical advice or family influence and this might result in reduced physical fitness. Physical training programs aim to improve physical
Sao Paulo Med. J.. Publicado em: 2014
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11. Hansen's disease: a vanishing disease?
The introduction, implementation, successes and failures of multidrug therapy (MDT) in all Hansen's disease endemic countries are discussed in this paper. The high efficacy of leprosy treatment with MDT and the global reduction of prevalence led the World Health Organization, in 1991, to establish the goal of elimination of Hansen's disease (less than 1 pati
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz. Publicado em: 2012-12
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12. Acesso ao diagnóstico de tuberculose pulmonar no cotidiano dos trabalhadores de saúde da atenção básica
The present study aims at understanding access to diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in the lives of health workers in a town in the countryside of Minas Gerais. The General Representations Theory of Moscovici and the Central Nucleus Theory of Jean-Cloude Abric under Social Psychology perspective were adopted as theoretical-methodological reference. First i
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia. Publicado em: 17/05/2011