The generation of adolescents in Brazil is large and a considerable number live in rural areas, marked by inequalities that make access to public health, education and leisure services difficult. These inequalities affect the different dimensions of adolescents' lives and reverberate, incisively in situations of morbidity and mortality, especially in the same rural area, with emphasis on quilombola and non-quil...
The scope of this article is to describe the food consumption and eating behavior of quilombola and non-quilombola adolescents from the rural area of Southwest Bahia. A cross-sectional study with 390 adolescents aged 10 to 19 years was conducted in 2015, using an adapted PeNSE and PNS questionnaire. Food consumption was assessed by the frequency of healthy and unhealthy food markers in the previous 7 days. Eati...
The generation of adolescents in Brazil is large and a considerable number live in rural areas, marked by inequalities that make access to public health, education and leisure services difficult. These inequalities affect the different dimensions of adolescents' lives and reverberate, incisively in situations of morbidity and mortality, especially in the same rural area, with emphasis on quilombola and non-quil...