INTRODUCTION The Brazilian National Health System may reduce inequalities in access to health services through strategies that can reach those most in need with no access to care services. OBJECTIVE To identify factors associated with the use of health service by children aged 5 to 9 years in the city of Sobral, Ceará, northeastern Brazil. RESULTS Only 558 (17.0%) children used health care ...

BACKGROUND There are only a few studies on the impact of food hypersensitivity (FHS) in children on health-related quality of life (HRQL). The present study was designed to examine this impact in a population-based birth cohort (BAMSE). METHODS A nested case-control study was performed within the cohort. The parents of 1378 nine-year-old children filled out a generic questionnaire with 13 sub...

In the title compound, C28H27NO3, the cyclo-hexa-none and isoxazole rings have envelope conformations, with the methyl-ene and spiro C atoms as the flaps, respectively. The mean plane of the isoxazole ring is inclined slightly to the p-tolyl ring, making a dihedral angle of 14.20 (9)°, and is nearly perpendicular to the mean plane through the tetra-lone moiety and to the meth-oxy-phenyl ring [d...

2-Naphthyl-substituted glucopyranosylidene-spiro-oxathiazole prepared following a novel design principle was found to be the best known glucose analogue inhibitor of rabbit muscle glycogen phosphorylase b (K(i) 160 nM).

Brazil is well known as a country with large social and economic inequalities (Solt, 2016). But in recent years, Brazil has made considerable strides in extending a range of social protections including achieving nearly universal health coverage, expanding community-based primary care through the Family Health Strategy (FHS), and providing a robust conditional cash transfer program (Atun et al....

Lifespan increases observed in the United States and elsewhere throughout the developed world, have been attributed in part to improvements in medical care access and technology and to healthier lifestyles. To differentiate the relative contributions of these two factors, we have compared lifespan in the Old Order Amish (OOA), a population with historically low use of medical care, with that of...

OBJECTIVE to evaluate trends in rates of hospitalizations owing to ambulatory care sensitive conditions in the municipality of Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, from 2001 to 2011, and to assess correlation with the public health expendutures Family Health Strategy (FHS) population coverage. METHODS this was an ecological study using Ministry of Health secondary data; data were analyzed u...

OBJECTIVE We examined body mass index (BMI) across place and time to determine the pattern of BMI mean and standard deviation trajectories. METHODS We included participants in the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) Offspring Cohort over eight waves of follow-up, from 1971 to 2008. After exclusions, the final sample size was 4569 subjects with 28,625 observations. We used multi-level models to exami...

The synthesis of some 9,10-disubstituted anthracene derivatives are described. 9,10-Bis(2-bromoethyl) anthracene 4,9,10-Bis (2-cyanoethyl) anthracene 5 and 9,10-Bis (4-hydroxybutyl) anthracene 11 are synthesized for the first time.