OBJECTIVES To assess the availability of food in relation to their degree of industrial processing and the types of food stores in the perimeters of elementary schools. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study. 82 food stores located within a 500 m radius buffer of three public schools located in three distinct regions with different socioeconomic levels in the municipality of Santos, state of...

AT THE end of the eleventh century a spate of intellectual activity in all fields, usually known as the Twelfth-Century Renaissance, began in Western Europe. Medical knowledge, consequently, made considerable advances with the rediscovery, mainly from Arabic sources, of Ancient Greek medical texts and with the translation of the works of skilled Arabic doctors who practised according to Greek p...

During the 1970s and the 1980s political instability and economic mismanagement was succeeded by civil war, and education in Uganda survived only through community support for teachers and schools. The National Resistance Movement took over in 1986 and began the slow process of recovery, including establishing an Education Policy Review Committee in 1987 which established UPE as a goal and dete...

BACKGROUND Medical schools are improving end-of-life (EOL) care curricula; however, students rarely practice EOL communication skills in a safe learning environment. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to study which curriculum improves students' ability to discuss hospice care. METHODS We conducted a study of six family medicine clerkship blocks; three taught with a didactic curriculum (A) and thr...

Since 2003, researchers, faculty, graduate and undergraduate students from the State University of Maringá have been working alongside teachers from the state and local schools in the municipality of Porto Rico (Paraná State), located on the banks of the Paraná River. Their objective is to outline actions and strategies with the purpose of building methodological paths to insert environmental e...