To increase current knowledge concerning the epidemiology of silicosis in the southeast of Brazil, a detailed survey was carried out through the occupational histories of 3,440 adult male patients admitted for tuberculosis to 27 tuberculosis hospitals in the states of S. Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Minas Gerais (Brazil). Analysis of complete occupational histories disclosed 327 (9.5%) suspected cases of silicotuberculosis. Random and independent readings of chest roentgenograms by three experienced professionals (two pneumologists and one radiologist) confirmed positive or suspected shadows of pneumoconiosis in 119 patients (3.5%). Applying this rate of silicotuberculosis to the total number of adult male admissions in 1977 and the tuberculo...
Drug trafficking has become the main factor in the escalation of violence and one of the greatest ob...
OBJECTIVE: To assess difficulties in the accessibility to tuberculosis diagnoses in the health servi...
The prevalence of neutralizing antibodies for the three types of polioviruses and the immunity level...
O objetivo foi estimar a prevalência do uso de adoçantes pela população adulta brasileira e caracter...
Health levels were studied through a historical series (1956-1965), in the Taquari-Antas region (Sta...
Objetivo caracterizar o acesso à assistência cirúrgica no Brasil. Método estudo documental, com abo...
The results of an American Trypanosomiasis serologic survey, carried out in 1975 in two blood banks ...
The invention of roentgenphotography by Manoel de Abreu and its consequent widespread use in Brasil ...
The participation of genetic defects in child death rate became more significant after the decline...
As a part of a broad epidemiological survey of health conditions in children, the magnitude and dist...
With the findings of several positive cases of Chagas disease in adults by the Machado Guerreiro rea...
Some characteristics of epidemiological relevance of the behavior of poliomyelitis in some Health Di...
Objetivo: estimar a prevalência de uso de medicamentos e outros produtos com finalidade terapêutica ...
O aumento da proporção de idosos trouxe mudanças importantes no perfil de morbidade geral. Uma maior...
OBJECTIVE To analyze the epidemiological profile of cases and the pattern of spatial diffusion of th...
Drug trafficking has become the main factor in the escalation of violence and one of the greatest ob...
OBJECTIVE: To assess difficulties in the accessibility to tuberculosis diagnoses in the health servi...
The prevalence of neutralizing antibodies for the three types of polioviruses and the immunity level...
O objetivo foi estimar a prevalência do uso de adoçantes pela população adulta brasileira e caracter...
Health levels were studied through a historical series (1956-1965), in the Taquari-Antas region (Sta...
Objetivo caracterizar o acesso à assistência cirúrgica no Brasil. Método estudo documental, com abo...
The results of an American Trypanosomiasis serologic survey, carried out in 1975 in two blood banks ...
The invention of roentgenphotography by Manoel de Abreu and its consequent widespread use in Brasil ...
The participation of genetic defects in child death rate became more significant after the decline...
As a part of a broad epidemiological survey of health conditions in children, the magnitude and dist...
With the findings of several positive cases of Chagas disease in adults by the Machado Guerreiro rea...
Some characteristics of epidemiological relevance of the behavior of poliomyelitis in some Health Di...
Objetivo: estimar a prevalência de uso de medicamentos e outros produtos com finalidade terapêutica ...
O aumento da proporção de idosos trouxe mudanças importantes no perfil de morbidade geral. Uma maior...
OBJECTIVE To analyze the epidemiological profile of cases and the pattern of spatial diffusion of th...
Drug trafficking has become the main factor in the escalation of violence and one of the greatest ob...
OBJECTIVE: To assess difficulties in the accessibility to tuberculosis diagnoses in the health servi...
The prevalence of neutralizing antibodies for the three types of polioviruses and the immunity level...