Objective: to describe the magnitude and timely reporting of Notifiable Diseases (ND) and evaluate epidemiological indicators in 121 Brazilian border cities. Methods: this was a descriptive study using Notifiable Diseases Information System (Sinan) 2007-2009 data on 45 diseases notifiable in Brazil, as well as normative evaluation of selected epidemiological surveillance indicators. Results: 40...

Introduction Models have been used for some times with the aim of helping in decision making around Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreaks. However, up to very recently, most of these models could mainly be seen as training tools, because Western European and North American countries, as well as Australia and New Zealand, where many of them have been developed, had been free of FMD for many yea...

BACKGROUND The objective of the research was to study the pattern of appendicectomies in Scotland over the last 20 years. METHOD Routine National Health Service data on patients discharged after appendicectomy in Scotland during 1973-1993 were analysed. RESULTS For all ages, the appendicectomy rate has fallen steadily from 1.97 per 1000 (10,325 operations) in 1973 to 0.96 per 1000 (4906 ope...

The Cox proportional hazards model is routinely used to determine the time until an event of interest. Two time scales are used in practice: time-on-study and chronological age. The former is the most frequently used time scale both in clinical studies and longitudinal observation studies. However, there is no general consensus about which time scale is the best. In recent years, papers have ap...

Andrade et al. published on the May/June 2013 issue of this journal an interesting article on otorhinolaryngology (ENT) emergencies (‘‘Profile of otorhinolaryngology emergency unit care in a high complexity public hospital’’).1 The aim of this letter is to compare and comment what has been published to our data. We retrospectively reviewed all patients sent for urgent/emergent consultation to o...

Epidemiological Bulletin / PAHO, Vol. 23, No. 3 (2002) References: Aguirre E. Informe de intoxicaciones por plaguicidas, Costa Rica, 1999-2000. San José, Costa Rica; 2001. ASDI/Pan American Health Organization. XVI Reunión del Sector Salud de Centroamérica y República Dominicana (RESSCAD), Informe Final. Honduras, 2000. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Población económic...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency, nature, circumstances, and outcome of schoolboy rugby injuries and to compare these injuries with those occurring in senior rugby clubs. METHODS The study was a prospective cohort study, conducted on 1705 (98%) of 1736 eligible players from nine Edinburgh schools and 1169 (96%) of 1216 eligible players from all 26 senior Scottish Rugby Union clubs (South ...

BACKGROUND The potential for natural environments to be salutogenic has received growing interest from epidemiologists, but there has been no critical examination of the extent to which associations between green space and health might vary according to the indicator of green space coverage used. METHODS Three different indicators of green space coverage were derived for a set of 268 small ar...