Tufa deposits in the karst region of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil

[Breastfeeding in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais: a representative sample study]

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the situation of breast-feeding in Montes Claros, among under-two-year-old children, and to determine variables associated to major risk for early weaning. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study interviews were carried out by trained personnel with 602 mothers selected randomly in the urban area of Montes Claros, from September to November, 1996. The survival analysis was...

Prevalence of the use of homeopathy by the population of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Homeopathy is a therapeutic system that uses small doses of substances to stimulate autoregulatory and self-healing processes. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of the use of homeopathy by the population of Montes Claros, Brazil, and the socioeconomic profile of users. DESIGN AND SETTING Probabilistic cross-sectional study with cluster sampling, in ...

[Population dynamics and the profile of mortality in the municipality of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais State, Brazil].

This study is an ecological study of time trend. The objective of this study is to assess the population dynamics as the 1980 Census, 1991 and 2000, and the profile of mortality in the period between 1996 and 2005, in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais State. We used the information systems database of Datasus and IBGE. The main results indicate that the elderly group increased from 4.1% in 1980, 5.0%...

Efficacy of a new formulation of Bacillus sphaericus 2362 against Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera:Culicidae) in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Epidemiology of canine visceral leishmaniosis in the endemic area of Montes Claros Municipality, Minas Gerais State, Brazil.

The Montes Claros City is located in an endemic area for visceral leishmaniosis in the Minas Gerais State, Brazil. With the implementation of a program for the control of visceral leishmaniosis in 1994, a sectional study was carried out to evaluate the infection by viscerotropic Leishmania in the population of dogs from Montes Claros, basically using indirect immunofluorescence antibody test (I...