The article discusses the professional experience of Samuel Pessoa (1898-1976), parasitologist and physician, within the framework of the Getuilio Vargas government's political and administrative reforms. Pessoa's trajectory shows that growing bureaucratization of all state sectors, presented new challenges to enforcers of public health policies. Nevertheless, this trend did not imply a radical...

Brazil was one of the first countries in Latin America to institutionalize a National Environmental Policy in 1981, including the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process of economic activities with anticipated impacts on the environment. Today, EIA practice in Brazil comes with a number of limitations: it is constrained by its environmental advocacy role; application is strongly oriented ...

background: violence against women is a serious social problem and affects mainly young women. this study aimed to evaluate sexual violence against women in campina grande, brazil. methods: a retrospective study with analysis of 886 forensic medical reports of sexual violence from the institute of legal medicine of campina grande, brazil, was conducted between january 2005 and december 2009. so...

background: bromeliads can be epiphytic, terrestrial or saxicolous and use strategies to allow water to be re­tained in their leaf axils, where various arthropods can be found. these include mosquitoes, whose larvae are the most abundant and commonly found organisms in the leaf axils. the objective of this study was to look for im­mature forms of mosquitoes (the larval and pupal stages) in brom...

allege that it has a negative impact on labour force participation. However, the participation rate of [beneficiary] adults was, in fact, 2.6 percentage points higher, and 4.3 percentage points higher for women." The text and data in this publication may be reproduced as long as the source is cited. Reproductions for commercial purposes are forbidden. The International Poverty Centre's Evaluati...

children and adolescents are vulnerable to violent situations in their social, family and school environment. the aim of the study was to characterize morbidity due to violence in brazilian children and adolescents.a cross-sectional study through the analysis of 1,356 corpus delicti medical reports and police reports of children and adolescents aged 0-19 years, victims of interpersonal violence...

a recently described species of dysdercus, named dysdercus stehliki schaefer, 2013 (hemiptera: heteroptera: pyrrhocoridae), found in viçosa, minas gerais state, brazil, feeds upon the seeds of fallen fruits of sterculia chicha a. st. hil. (malvales: sterculiaceae). the biology and immature stages’ descriptions of d. stehliki were assessed in two environments: laboratory and field. individuals o...

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Departamento de Odontologia, Patologia Oral, Natal, RN, Brazil Hospital Universitário Oswaldo Cruz, Departamento de Cirurgia de Cabeça e Pescoço, Recife, PE, Brazil Instituto São Leopoldo Mandic, Centro de Pesquisas, SLMandic, São Paulo, SP, Brazil Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), Faculdade de Odontologia, Centro Acadêmico de Ciê...

BACKGROUND Blood pressure (BP) control is crucial in arterial hypertension (AH). OBJECTIVE To determine the percentage of patients requiring specific BP control goals treated in medical offices throughout Brazil. METHODS Each researcher, from a total number of 291, had to evaluate, through conventional BP measurement performed during five consecutive days, the two first patients treated on ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate Brazil's public health surveillance system (HSS), identifying its core capacities, shortcomings, and limitations in dealing with public health emergencies, within the context of the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005). METHODS In 2008-2009 an evaluative cross-sectional study was conducted using semistructured questionnaires administered to key informants (municip...