Abstract To estimate the prevalence of social participation (exposure) and its association with positive self-assessment of overall health status (SAH) (outcome) among 7,712 Brazilian elderly interviewed in the National Health Survey 2013. A cross-sectional study that used Propensity Score (PS) to improve comparability between the group exposed and no exposed to social participation. Poisson regression was perf...
Resumo Este estudo teve por objetivo apresentar a distribuição de enfermeiros no mercado de trabalho com carga horária semanal maior ou igual a quarenta horas segundo as regiões e o local público ou privado de trabalho no Brasil. Tratou-se de estudo transversal, realizado entre 10 e 27 de fevereiro de 2017, com dados on-line das pesquisas de assistência médico-sanitária realizadas em 2002, 2005 e 2009 pelo Inst...
Aging with quality of life does not occur equally among the racial groups of Brazilian elderly, and few studies have analyzed this issue in the states of the Brazilian Legal Amazon. The objective of this study was to investigate racial inequalities in the socioeconomic, demographic and health conditions of elderly residents of Maranhão state, Brazil. The present work is a cross-sectional study of 450 elders age...