ABSTRACT Objective: To investigate socioeconomic and demographic differences regarding population aging in municipalities of the state of Pará, Brazil. Method: Ecological study with secondary demographic, socioeconomic and health data from the 144 municipalities of the state of Pará, Brazil. Data were treated with segmentation analysis, the Mann-Whitney U test and logistic regression models, with a significance...
<p><b>OBJECTIVE:</b> This study sought to investigate the association between social capital and the use of health services among Brazilian non-institutionalized older adults living in an urban metropolitan area.<br> <b>METHODS:</b> The sample was comprised of 2,052 respondents aged 60 or older. Individual Social Capital was measured by The World Bank Integrated Questionnaire (IQ-MSC) dichotomized in “low” and ...
Abstract Objective: Evaluate the relevance and efficiency of socio-educational video debate technology as a strategy to promote active aging. Methodology: Convergent care research was conducted with 16 elderly users of a basic health unit in Belém, to implement the technology by selecting YouTube videos, which were analyzed and discussed, seeking to coordinate the video plot of each video with determining facto...
Resumo Objetivo Avaliar a funcionalidade familiar de idosos brasileiros; testar a influência de fatores determinantes. Métodos Estudo transversal com 2.052 idosos, a partir de dados coletados da linha base referente ao estudo “Aging, Gender and Quality of Life (AGEQOL)”, responderam questionários sobre funcionamento familiar; atividades básicas e instrumentais de vida diária (AVD e AIVD); estado cognitivo; e ca...
Abstract Considering that functional capacity is an important indicator of health in aging, the present study aimed to describe the prevalence of disability by gender among elderly people in Brazil through a systematic review and meta-analysis of articles about this subject. Articles published up to June 2013 were included, and a search was performed of the MEDLINE, SciELO, LILACS, Scopus, Web of Science and Sc...
Resumo Os objetivos deste estudo foram construir um indicador de envelhecimento ativo e testar sua associação com qualidade de vida e possíveis determinantes segundo gênero. O estudo AGEQOL (Aging, Gender and Quality of Life) entrevistou 2052 indivíduos com 60 anos e mais de idade residentes em Sete Lagoas, MG, Brasil. A associação entre envelhecimento ativo, qualidade de vida e possíveis determinantes foi real...
Os objetivos do presente estudo foram identificar as diferenças de gênero em relação aos fatores associados à satisfação com saúde bucal de idosos e estimar a prevalência de edentulismo por gênero e faixa etária. Foram incluídos 2.052 idosos com 60 anos e mais de idade, residentes em Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, Brasil. A regressão de Poisson foi utilizada para estimar a prevalência de edentulismo. A associação e...
Condições socioeconômicas e demográficas exercem um importante papel nas perdas dentárias da população, no entanto existem poucas evidências científicas sobre a influência do capital social nesse agravo. O objetivo deste estudo foi descrever o perfil das perdas dentárias em adultos de 35-44 anos de idade, residentes em municípios do entorno de Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Este estudo transversal exploratório a...
Cross-sectional, descriptive and correlational study with 107 elderly enrolled in two basic health units in Minas Gerais, in order to describe the sociodemographic profile and evaluate the interdependence of quality of life of the elderly and physical activity, in the face of possible factors. Initially we performed a descriptive analysis of the socioeconomic profile of the sample and the tests applied to the e...
The aim was to investigate the influence of social and health indicators on access to Primary Healthcare in the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Area, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Secondary data of 34 municipalities were analyzed; the dependent variables were three basic healthcare indicators: coverage of the Family Health Strategy; coverage of scheduled first dental appointment and mean annual number of appointments...