Clara Ananda Pimentel de Sousa Santos, Rosana Dos Santos Costa, Jéssica Loureiro Mendes Silva, Maria Dos Remédios Farias Dos Santos, Bruna Lays Ferreira Gomes
{"title":"[Knowledge, attitude and practice on childhood immunization personnel in Teresina-PI, Brazil, 2015].","authors":"Clara Ananda Pimentel de Sousa Santos, Rosana Dos Santos Costa, Jéssica Loureiro Mendes Silva, Maria Dos Remédios Farias Dos Santos, Bruna Lays Ferreira Gomes","doi":"10.5123/S1679-49742017000100014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5123/S1679-49742017000100014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>to describe the knowledge, attitude and practice of vaccinators toward childhood vaccination.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>this is a descriptive census study, conducted in 2015 with vaccinators from vaccination rooms of the urban area of Teresina, Piauí, Brazil; data were collected through a questionnaire.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>70 vaccinators were interviewed; most answers related to knowledge and attitude of the vaccinators toward childhood vaccination were considered inadequate (n=58 and n=39, respectively); with regard to practice, there were 43 adequate answers; there was no statistically significant association between the variable knowledge and the variables attitude and practice.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>a high number of inadequate answers related to knowledge and attitude and of adequate answers concerning practice were observed.</p>","PeriodicalId":520611,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil","volume":" ","pages":"133-140"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34756076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eliete Albano de Azevedo Guimarães, Carolina Santiago Vieira, Fernanda Daniela Dornelas Nunes, Gabriela da Cunha Januário, Valéria Conceição de Oliveira, Jacqueline Domingues Tibúrcio
{"title":"Prematurity and associated factors in Divinópolis, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, 2008-2011: analysis of the Information System on Live Births.","authors":"Eliete Albano de Azevedo Guimarães, Carolina Santiago Vieira, Fernanda Daniela Dornelas Nunes, Gabriela da Cunha Januário, Valéria Conceição de Oliveira, Jacqueline Domingues Tibúrcio","doi":"10.5123/S1679-49742017000100010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5123/S1679-49742017000100010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>to estimate prematurity prevalence and associated factors in Divinópolis, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, 2008-2011.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>this is a cross-sectional study with data from 9,987 records held on the Information System on Live Births; a multiple logistic regression model was used.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>prevalence of preterm births was 8.0%; the higher likelihood of premature newborns were found to cesarean section (8.9%), mothers aged 15 or less (14.4%) and aged 35 or more (9.3%), mothers who went to 6 or fewer prenatal care visits (16.0%), and had had 4 or more live births (11.7%); after adjustment, the odds of preterm birth was higher among mothers aged under 15 years old (OR=1.22; 95%CI 1.01;1.49), mothers with 6 or fewer prenatal care visits (OR=3.76; 95%CI 3.24;4.38) and mothers undergoing cesarean section (OR=1.73; 95%CI 1.48;2.04).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>prematurity was associated with cesarean delivery, having fewer than 7 prenatal care visits and lower maternal age.</p>","PeriodicalId":520611,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil","volume":" ","pages":"91-98"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34756071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Juliane Maria Alves Siqueira Malta, Alexander Vargas, Priscila Leal E Leite, Jadher Percio, Giovanini Evelim Coelho, Andréa Helena Argolo Ferraro, Tânia Maria de Oliveira Cordeiro, Jesângeli de Sousa Dias, Eduardo Saad
{"title":"Guillain-Barré syndrome and other neurological manifestations possibly related to Zika virus infection in municipalities from Bahia, Brazil, 2015.","authors":"Juliane Maria Alves Siqueira Malta, Alexander Vargas, Priscila Leal E Leite, Jadher Percio, Giovanini Evelim Coelho, Andréa Helena Argolo Ferraro, Tânia Maria de Oliveira Cordeiro, Jesângeli de Sousa Dias, Eduardo Saad","doi":"10.5123/S1679-49742017000100002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5123/S1679-49742017000100002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>to describe the reported cases of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) and other neurological manifestations with a history of dengue, chikungunya or Zika virus infections, in the Metropolitan Region of Salvador and in the municipality of Feira de Santana, Brazil.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>this is a descriptive study with data of an investigation conducted by the epidemiological surveillance from March to August 2015; to confirm the neurological manifestations, medical diagnosis records were considered, and to prior infection, clinical and laboratory criteria were used.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>138 individuals were investigated, 57 reported infectious process up to 31 days before neurological symptoms - 30 possibly due to Zika, 13 to dengue, 8 to chikungunya and 6 were inconclusive -; GBS was the most frequent neurological condition (n=46), with predominance of male sex (n=32) and the median age was 44.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>most cases reported a clinical picture consistent with acute Zika virus disease, which preceded the occurrence of neurological symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":520611,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil","volume":" ","pages":"9-18"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34756136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gretchen A Stevens, Leontine Alkema, Robert E Black, J Ties Boerma, Gary S Collins, Majid Ezzati, John T Grove, Daniel R Hogan, Margaret C Hogan, Richard Horton, Joy E Lawn, Ana Marušic, Colin D Mathers, Christopher J L Murray, Igor Rudan, Joshua A Salomon, Paul J Simpson, Theo Vos, Vivian Welch
{"title":"[Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting: the GATHER Statement].","authors":"Gretchen A Stevens, Leontine Alkema, Robert E Black, J Ties Boerma, Gary S Collins, Majid Ezzati, John T Grove, Daniel R Hogan, Margaret C Hogan, Richard Horton, Joy E Lawn, Ana Marušic, Colin D Mathers, Christopher J L Murray, Igor Rudan, Joshua A Salomon, Paul J Simpson, Theo Vos, Vivian Welch","doi":"10.5123/S1679-49742017000100023","DOIUrl":"10.5123/S1679-49742017000100023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Measurements of health indicators are rarely available for every population and period of interest, and available data may not be comparable. The Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting (GATHER) define best reporting practices for studies that calculate health estimates for multiple populations (in time or space) using multiple information sources. Health estimates that fall within the scope of GATHER include all quantitative population-level estimates (including global, regional, national, or subnational estimates) of health indicators, including indicators of health status, incidence and prevalence of diseases, injuries, and disability and functioning; and indicators of health determinants, including health behaviours and health exposures. GATHER comprises a checklist of 18 items that are essential for best reporting practice. A more detailed explanation and elaboration document, describing the interpretation and rationale of each reporting item along with examples of good reporting, is available on the GATHER website (http://gather-statement.org).</p>","PeriodicalId":520611,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil","volume":" ","pages":"215-222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34755923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[csapAIH: a function to classify ambulatory care sensitive conditions in the statistical software R].","authors":"Fúlvio Borges Nedel","doi":"10.5123/S1679-49742017000100021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5123/S1679-49742017000100021","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hospitalizations due to ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC) are an indirect indicator of primary health care. A package in the R program was developed in order to automatize the classification of codes of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems - 10th Revision (ICD-10), according to the Brazilian list of ACSC, and provide functionalities for the management of the \"reduced files\" of the inpatient hospital authorization (AIH). The csapAIH package contains a homonym function, which reads the data according to its nature (file or data frame with AIH structure, or a factor with ICD-10 codes) and returns, according to defined options, a databank or vector containing the classification for the hospitalization. This article presents the package and the function csapAIH, its installation mode and use, and examples of its functionalities, which may add quickness, precision and validity to the research of ACSC in Brazil.</p>","PeriodicalId":520611,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil","volume":" ","pages":"199-209"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34755994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Binge drinking among young Brazilians and the promotion of alcoholic beverages: a Public Health concern.","authors":"Zila M Sanchez","doi":"10.5123/S1679-49742017000100020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5123/S1679-49742017000100020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520611,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil","volume":" ","pages":"195-198"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34755922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cleber Vinicius Brito Dos Santos, Rafaely Bezerra de Melo, Daniel Friguglietti Brandespim
{"title":"Profile of human anti-rabies treatment in the 'agreste' region of Pernambuco State, Brazil, 2010-2012.","authors":"Cleber Vinicius Brito Dos Santos, Rafaely Bezerra de Melo, Daniel Friguglietti Brandespim","doi":"10.5123/S1679-49742017000100017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5123/S1679-49742017000100017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>to describe the characteristics of reported human anti-rabies treatment in municipalities of the 'agreste' region of Pernambuco State, Brazil, 2010-2012.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>this was a descriptive study using data from human anti-rabies medical records filed on the Information System for Notifiable Diseases (Sinan).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>10,138 reported records of anti-rabies treatment were included; canines were the most involved species (68.1%), in good health condition (79.9%). Biting was the most common contact (83.8%), causing multiple injuries (58.3%), to hands/feet (39.4%), and deep wounds in 56.8% of cases; combined vaccine + serum administration frequency was found to be low (10.5%), even though 47.9% of injuries were considered severe and therefore required this prophylactic procedure.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>possible inadequate prophylaxis procedures were found, showing the need for health worker training aimed at ensuring correct human anti-rabies prophylaxis and the proper filling in of medical record files.</p>","PeriodicalId":520611,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil","volume":" ","pages":"161-168"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34755991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Everton Nunes da Silva, Marcus Tolentino Silva, Maurício Gomes Pereira
{"title":"Uncertainty in economic evaluation studies.","authors":"Everton Nunes da Silva, Marcus Tolentino Silva, Maurício Gomes Pereira","doi":"10.5123/S1679-49742017000100022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5123/S1679-49742017000100022","url":null,"abstract":"As we could see in the previous articles of the economic evaluation series, there is a large set of information required for decision makers on health expenditures and outcomes, and the way they spread over time. In order to obtain this information, epidemiological, economic, mathematical and statistical methods are used, but they all have limitations which are inherent to any scientific method. During the development process of economic evaluation, some uncertainties may arise, which can substantially impact the main findings of the analysis. When uncertainty is considered, researchers try to quantify the influence of data and adopted assumptions on the conclusion of the research. This article outlines three types of uncertainty in economic evaluation: methodological, structural and parameter.","PeriodicalId":520611,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil","volume":" ","pages":"211-213"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34755995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marta Maria Alves da Silva, Márcio Dênis Medeiros Mascarenhas, Cheila Marina Lima, Deborah Carvalho Malta, Rosane Aparecida Monteiro, Mariana Gonçalves de Freitas, Alice Cristina Medeiros Melo, Camila Alves Bahia, Regina Tomie Ivata Bernal
{"title":"Characteristics of the Violence and Accidents Survey Conducted in Brazilian Sentinel Emergency Departments.","authors":"Marta Maria Alves da Silva, Márcio Dênis Medeiros Mascarenhas, Cheila Marina Lima, Deborah Carvalho Malta, Rosane Aparecida Monteiro, Mariana Gonçalves de Freitas, Alice Cristina Medeiros Melo, Camila Alves Bahia, Regina Tomie Ivata Bernal","doi":"10.5123/S1679-49742017000100019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5123/S1679-49742017000100019","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Violence and Accidents Survey Conducted in Sentinel Emergency Departments (VIVA Survey) is the sentinel surveillance component of the Violence and Accidents Surveillance System (VIVA). It was conducted for the first time in 2006 and again in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2014. The sample is comprised of victims of accidents and violence treated in Emergency Departments linked to the Brazilian National Health System (SUS). The services are selected intentionally. This isfollowed by probability sampling of 12-hour shifts by conglomerates in single-stage selection. Data is collected by trained interviewers using a standard form. The variables include data about the service site, the victim, the event, injury and case development. The VIVA Survey provides key information for the implementation of policies for addressing violence and accidents as well as for health and peace promotion policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":520611,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil","volume":" ","pages":"183-194"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34755992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vanessa Cruz Santos, Karla Ferraz Dos Anjos, Rita Narriman Silva de Oliveira Boery, Ramon Missias Moreira, Diego Pires Cruz, Eduardo Nagib Boery
{"title":"Hospitalization and hospital mortality of elderly people with mental and behavioral disorders in Brazil, 2008-2014.","authors":"Vanessa Cruz Santos, Karla Ferraz Dos Anjos, Rita Narriman Silva de Oliveira Boery, Ramon Missias Moreira, Diego Pires Cruz, Eduardo Nagib Boery","doi":"10.5123/S1679-49742017000100005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5123/S1679-49742017000100005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>to analyze the evolution of hospitalizations and hospital mortality of elderly people with mental and behavioral disorders in Brazil, from 2008 to 2014.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>this is a time series ecological study, with data from the Hospital Information System of the Brazilian National Health System (SIH/SUS), and analyzed through Prais-Winsten regression.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>during the studied period, 139,941 hospitalizations and 2,962 deaths were recorded; the hospitalization coefficient for mental and behavioral disorders decreased in Brazil, from 122.3 to 84.2 per 100 thousand inhabitants (-0.14%; 95%CI -0.25;-0.03), and its macroregions, except the South, which presented stationary trend (0.08%; 95%CI -0.11;0.27); the hospital mortality coefficients in Brazil, in 2008 and 2014, were, respectively, 1.73 and 2.38 per 100 thousand inhabitants; dementia was the main diagnosis in hospitalizations that registered deaths (32.3%).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>despite the reduction in hospitalization coefficient for mental and behavioral disorders during the studied period, the hospital mortality coefficient has increased.</p>","PeriodicalId":520611,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil","volume":" ","pages":"39-49"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5123/S1679-49742017000100005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34756069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}