OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to provide new evidence on disability trends among elderly persons from 1982 to 1996. METHODS The sample includes 124,949 participants aged 70 and older in the 1982-1996 National Health Interview Surveys. Logistic analysis was used to estimate the trend in disability prevalence after controlling for various sociodemographic factors. RESULTS We found t...

Medical students enter medical school hoping to have good relationships with their patients. Along with residents, however, they are exposed to a hidden curriculum that places the acquisition of biomedical knowledge above and at times at odds with development of the awareness and relationship skills important to the patient-physician relationship. Seasoned clinicians often enjoy the capacity fo...

ABSTRACT Purpose: to implement and assess hearing health interventions for school students, using Dangerous Decibels® Program activities in partnership with the Young Doctor Project, approaching noise-induced loss prevention. Methods: study encompassed 41 aged 12 14 years, from two schools inland São Paulo a social institution public students. Activities were based on Project Brazil Program. Th...

To improve the effectiveness of teaching professionalism, the authors propose introducing mindfulness practice into the dental curriculum. The qualities cultivated through mindfulness meditation practice closely resemble the global attitudes of professionalism. Professionalism and mindfulness are broad overlapping constructs with a common prosocial aim: letting go of selfish, short-sighted rewa...

The aim of this study was to analyze how women with back pain perceived their quality of life after having attended educational workshops on back pain directed to self-care and prevention. This qualitative study was conducted in a Higher Education Institution in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, during the months April and May 2005, using a sample of nine women who had concluded eight workshops. The fo...