Guzman-Holst, Adriana de Barros, Eliana Rubio, Pilar DeAntonio, Rodrigo Cintra, Otavio Abreu, Ariane
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Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics
In 2010, a 10-valent pneumococcal non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae protein D conjugate vaccine (PHiD-CV) was introduced in the Brazilian national immunization program; the 3 + 1 dose schedule was replaced by a 2 + 1 dose schedule in 2016. This systematic review presents the latest published evidence (2015-2020) on the impact after 10-year use of...
Carabali, Mabel Harper, Sam Lima Neto, Antonio S Dos Santos de Sousa, Geziel Caprara, Andrea Restrepo, Berta Nelly Kaufman, Jay S
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
We used surveillance data from Brazil and Colombia during 2007-2017 to assess the presence of socioeconomic inequalities on dengue, chikungunya and Zika at the neighborhood level in two Latin American cities. To quantify the inequality, we estimated and decomposed the relative concentration index of inequality (RCI) accounting for the spatiotempora...
Nascimento, Sabrina Brucker, Natália Göethel, Gabriela Sauer, Elisa Peruzzi, Caroline Gauer, Bruna Tureta, Emanuela Flesch, Ingrid Cestonaro, Larissa Pierre, Tatiana Saint'
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Biological trace element research
Rural children are exposed to several chemicals. This study evaluated the environmental co-exposure of rural children to cholinesterase inhibitor insecticides and metals/metalloids, and the resulting oxidative stress and DNA damage. Seventy-two children (5 to 16 years old) were studied at two different moments: period 1, when agrochemicals were les...
Carvalho, Roseana Böek Marmett, Bruna Dorneles, Gilson Pires da Silva, Igor Martins Romão, Pedro Roosevelt Torres da Silva Júnior, Flávio Manoel Rodrigues... Rhoden, Cláudia Ramos
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Environmental geochemistry and health
Ozone (O3) represents a great threat to human health, contributing to respiratory diseases and premature mortality. This pollutant is often considered a critical pollutant in regions of southern Brazil. Exposure to this pollutant during vigorous physical activity should be the subject of thorough investigations due to the increased ventilation rate...
Lippman, Sheri A Sevelius, Jae M Saggese, Gustavo Santa Roza Gilmore, Hailey Bassichetto, Katia Cristina de Barros, Daniel Dutra de Oliveira, Renata Batisteli Maschião, Luca Fasciolo Chen, Dorothy de Sousa Mascena Veras, Maria Amelia
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Trans women living with HIV (TWH) have suboptimal HIV care engagement. We pilot tested Trans Amigas, a theory-based, trans-specific peer navigation (PN) intervention to address barriers to care in São Paulo, Brazil. TWH were randomized to the PN intervention (n = 75) or control (n = 38) condition. Control participants were referred to trans-friendl...
Walker, Kaitlin Flores-Anderson, Africa Villa, Lucio Griffin, Robert Finer, Matthew Herndon, Kelsey
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Environmental Research Letters
Sustainable land management is integral to conserving tropical ecosystems and reducing carbon emissions. Human-set fires are part of the land cover change process and are the most common driver of deforestation and carbon emissions in Amazonia. Analyzing the behavior of major fire events provides insight into the effectiveness of current protection...
Bezerra, Daniel R B Jalil, Cristina M Jalil, Emilia M Coelho, Lara E Carvalheira, Eduardo Freitas, Josias Monteiro, Laylla Santos, Toni Souza, Cleo Hoagland, Brenda
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AIDS and behavior
Diferentes estrategias se han usado para alcanzar hombres que tienen sexo con hombres (HSH) y mujeres trans (MT) en los servicios preventivos del VIH. Describimos las características de HSH y MT que acudieron a un servicio de prevención del VIH en Brasil, de acuerdo con diferentes estrategias de reclutamiento. Un total de 2713 personas (2246[82.8%]...
Marques Couto, Christian de Melo Queiroz, Elisa Nogueira, Renata Pires Duarte Küsel, Ana Paula J M Nascimento, Osvaldo
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis & frontotemporal degeneration
Objective: We conducted a multicentre, cross-sectional analysis of Brazilian patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and its phenotypic variants. We describe and compare their clinical and epidemiological data. Methods: We collected data from 1,116 patients who visited seven rehabilitation hospitals in the SARAH network from 1 January 200...
de Moraes, Claudia L Dos Santos, Érika B Reichenheim, Michael E Taquette, Stella R Stochero, Luciane Marques, Emanuele S
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Journal of interpersonal violence
Community violence (CV) is a global public health problem due to its high frequency and severe consequences. Although CV is one of the leading causes of death among adolescents, little is known about the everyday CV situations that do not lead to death. This study aimed to estimate the frequency of exposure to and involvement in CV situations among...
Bastos, João L Reichenheim, Michael E Paradies, Yin C
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Journal of health psychology
Using data from two studies conducted among diverse undergraduate students, we assessed the scalar structure of the Explicit Discrimination Scale (EDS), and developed an abridged version of the instrument. Our findings suggest that the EDS has acceptable scalability properties, including an adequate dispersion of items along the latent trait contin...
