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Ultra-processed food and risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-...

Institutional capacity for the care of people with chronic diseases in primary ...

Objective: to investigate the institutional capacity for the care of people with chronic non-communicable diseases in primary health care. Method: cross-sectional, quantitative and exploratory study. Data collection used the questionnaire, translated and adapted for Brazil, Assessment of Chronic Illness Care. Data collection took place between December 2017 and June 2018. 159 professionals working in 49 primary...

Use of health services and associated factors, among students at the Federal Un...

Objective: To analyze the use of health services and their associated factors by university students. Methods: Cross-sectional study applied to a sample of 2.708 students at the Federal University of Pelotas between November 2017 and July 2018. Results: Of the 1,865 individuals included, 55.8% used health services in the last 12 months, 39.3% used specialized services, and 22.6% used health centers; 45.9% used ...

Health care for people with diabetes and hypertension in Brazil: cross-sectiona...

Objective: To assess care for people with diabetes and hypertension, comparing the primary health care teams according to their participation in cycles I and II of the Access and Quality Improvement Program (PMAQ) and to verify the association with characteristics of users and municipalities. Methods: Cross-sectional study with data from the PMAQ, in 2014. We used data on team organization, request for exams an...

Occurrence and inequalities by education in multimorbidity in Brazilian adults ...

Objective The objectives of this study were: 1) to estimate the prevalence of multimorbidity in 2013 and 2019 in adults aged 20 to 59 years; 2) assess inequalities in the prevalence of multimorbidity in 2013 and 2019 according to educational level. Methods We used data from two cross-sectional surveys from the Brazilian National Health Survey (PNS) in 2013 and 2019. Multimorbidity was assessed from 14 lifetime ...

Protective behaviors for COVID-19 among Brazilian adults and elderly living wit...

To measure the occurrence of protective behaviors for COVID-19 and sociodemographic factors according to the occurrence of multimorbidity (MM) in the Brazilian population aged 50 or over was the objective of this study. We used data from telephone surveys among participants of ELSI (Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Elderly's Health), conducted between May and June 2020. The use of non-pharmacological prevention ...

Physiological markers and multimorbidity

Background: Multimorbidity is the co-occurrence of two or more diseases in the same individual. One method to identify this condition at an early stage is the use of specific markers for various combinations of morbidities. Nonetheless, evidence related to physiological markers in multimorbidity is limited. Objective: The aim was to perform a systematic review to identify physiological markers associated with m...

INFORMAL SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP REGARDING ELDERLY WITH HYPERTENSION AND/OR DIABETES

Aim: to evaluate the informal social relations among the elderly with diagnosis of hypertension and/or diabetes, residing in Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul. Method: crosssectional population-based study. A total of 1,593 people aged 60 and over were interviewed, of whom 947 had a diagnosis of hypertension and/or diabetes. Results: The prevalence of "informal social relations" was distributed in weak, moderate and stro...

Social inclusion through work in the process of minimizing social stigma relate...

In order to reflect on the importance of social inclusion through work in reducing the social stigma related to diseases, this article presents the narrative of three users of Retrate (Rehabilitation, Work and Art) who attend workshops to generate employment and income in the city of Pelotas, Southern Brazil. These users suffer from prejudice and discrimination because of a depressive disorder. Based on the the...

Acesso aos serviços de saúde em adolescentes e adultos na cidade de Pelotas - RS

Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-20T13:57:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao_Bruno_Nunes.pdf: 2376385 bytes, checksum: ed11f76ab4bdb8e6a269d9f2fd5d41a4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-12-18; A garantia de acesso a serviços de saúde efetivos, resolutivos e de qualidade, que respondam às necessidades de saúde da população são objetivos dos sistemas universais de saúde como, por exemplo, o Sistema Únic...