CONTEXTO: As relações entre envolvimento religioso e saúde têm sido objeto de crescente interesse, mas há carência de estudos fora dos Estados Unidos e da Europa. OBJETIVOS: O presente estudo descreve o envolvimento religioso na população brasileira e sua relação com variáveis sociodemográficas. MÉTODOS: Numa amostra probabilística da população brasileira (n = 3.007), variáveis sociodemográficas e de envolvimen...
Over the last decade, the Brazilian alcohol industry – which for years has ignored alcohol problems – inaugurated responsible drinking programs (RDPs). This paper reports findings from an exploratory study that investigated the RDP-related activities of six leading alcohol companies in Brazil (three national, three transnational) focusing on program goals and components, target populations and evaluation method...
BACKGROUND: The relationship between religious involvement and health has been subject to an increasing interest. However, studies investigating religious involvement are scarce outside United States and Europe. OBJECTIVES: This study describes religious involvement in the Brazilian population and its relationship with sociodemographic variables. METHODS: In a Brazilian nationally probabilistic sample (n = 3,00...
BACKGROUND: The abusive alcoholic beverage use is one of significant the provoking factors of external causes in patients taken care of in the emergency. OBJECTIVES: To describe the patterns of alcohol use among patients attended at the Emergency Department and to investigate the association of patterns of alcohol use and the reasons for seeking the emergency health care. METHODS: It is a transversal study. A s...