Objective: To estimate the prevalence of multimorbidity in long-lived Brazilian elderly (age ≥80 years) and to relate it to the use of health services. Methods: Cross-sectional population-based study with data from the 2019 National Health Survey (n =6,098). They were estimated frequencies of use of services in the elderly with multimorbidity and according to sex, medical health insurance ownership, and self-ra...
Objetivos: investigar a relação entre número de doenças crônicas e autoavaliação de saúde/capacidade funcional em relação a sexo e diferentes níveis educacionais. Métodos: foi realizado um estudo transversal com 419 idosos que haviam participado do estudo FIBRA, o qual investiga fragilidade em indivíduos idosos. Foram avaliadas variáveis sociodemográficas, doenças crônicas não transmissíveis, autoavaliação de s...
OBJETIVO: Descrever os principais resultados de estudos sobre preconceito, estereotipia e discriminação relacionados à idade (ageismo) no contexto da pandemia da covid-19. MÉTODOS: Trata-se de uma revisão integrativa da literatura sobre o ageismo no contexto da pandemia da covid-19, realizada entre maio e junho de 2020, a partir das seguintes bases de dados: Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Onli...
Introduction: The high prevalence of rheumatic diseases and the countless adverse effects caused in the individual make them a great challenge forgovernments and healthcare systems worldwide. Objective: To assess the prevalence of rheumatic diseases in the elderly and their relationship with somebiopsychosocial variables. Method: This is a cross-sectional population-based study whose data were obtained from the...
Purpose: This study was aimed at investigating associations between negative self-rated health and macro-structural (access and use of medical, hospitalar and odontological services, as well as consumption of medicines), social (sex, age, schooling, individual income, living arrangements, expectancy of care, and social participation), and health indicators (chronic diseases, signals and symptoms, functional pro...