Objective. To identify socioeconomic and health care determinants of the spatial variation of teenage pregnancy in Brazil in 2014. Methods. Spatial ecological study with municipalities as units of analysis. Spatial linear regression was used to verify the association between fertility in adolescence (15-19 years) and socioeconomic and health variables. Results. Fertility rate in adolescence was negatively assoc...
The study aimed to characterize food insecurity, nutritional status, and eating habits of people affected by leprosy. This is a descriptive cross-sectional study based on a census population. We evaluated 276 cases, reported in the Notifiable Diseases Information System, between 2001 and 2014, in the municipalities of Vitória da Conquista and Tremedal, in the state of Bahia. Food insecurity was estimated accord...
NIHR Global Health Research Program. EMLA has a CNPq Research Productivity Scholarship.; Universidade Federal da Bahia. Instituto de Saúde Coletiva. Salvador, BA, Brasil.; Universidade Federal da Bahia. Instituto de Saúde Coletiva. Salvador, BA, Brasil.; Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Gonçalo Moniz. Centro de Integração de Dados e Conhecimentos para Saúde. Salvador, BA, Brasil.; Universidade Federal da Bahia....
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...
This paper presents a methodology for the development of educational programs for the Digital Television (DTV) Brazilian, but specifically journalistic. Consists of recommendations for the production of content and based on the viewer focus on training for the possibilities of interactivity available on TVD, the methodology was applied in the pilot of a news program that addresses issues of everyday life among ...
Food insecurity (FI) in vulnerable groups can result in damage to dietary habits and the nutritional status of individuals. Diseases such as leprosy, feed back the cycle of poverty and reduce the chances of human development, corroborating the food vulnerability of the affected people. The objective of the study was to characterize food insecurity, nutritional status and eating habits in people affected by lepr...