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Health and Survival Impacts of Early Childhood Development Programmes: The Case of the Happy Child Programme in Brazil

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper adds to the growing evidence on the impacts of early childhood development (ECD) programming by examining one of the world's largest home visitation programmes, the Happy Child Programme in Brazil, and its impacts on child vaccination and preventable death rates.
Raquel Tebaldi, Franziska Gassmann, Bruno Martorano   +2 more
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Spatiotemporal Patterns and Socioeconomic Determinants of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Piauí, Northeast Brazil, 2001–2024

Tropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) remains a major public health problem, strongly associated with social and territorial inequalities. This study aimed to analyse temporal trends, spatiotemporal transmission patterns and socioeconomic determinants of PTB in the state of Piauí, Northeast Brazil, from 2001 to 2024.
José Mário Nunes da Silva, Viriato Campelo, Walter Massa Ramalho   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Landscape features predict broad‐scale seed rain patterns across fragments of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Journal of Ecology, Volume 114, Issue 5, May 2026.
Along with precipitation, forest cover emerges as a fundamental driver of alpha and beta diversity in the seed rain. This highlights the role of habitat amount at the landscape level over patch‐level features, like patch size, for seed dispersal. However, increased seed density can be related to higher dispersal rates in forest borders.
Luís Felipe Daibes, Haldre S. Rogers, Fulbert J. K. Gnonlonfoun, Talita Zupo, Rafael Barbizan Sühs, Daniella Vinha, Débora Cristina Rother, Paulo Alves Almeida Junior, Angela Luciana de Avila, José Marcos Barbosa, Romualdo Morelatto Begnini, Antonio Jorge Tourinho Braga, Marcos Vinicius Wincker Caldeira, Elivane Salete Capellesso, Andre Targa Cavassani, Eliana Cazetta, Ricardo Gomes Cesar, Marilena Menezes Silva Conde, Cléber Covre, Henrique Machado Dias, Pavel Dodonov, Rinaldo Luiz Caraciolo Ferreira, Cintia Gomes Freitas, Milena Gama, Gerhard Gottsberger, Flavia Moraes de Jesus, Carlos Alfredo Joly, Ute Christiane Knörr, Sustanis Horn Kunz, Vinícius Londe, Ana Lícia Patriota Feliciano Marangon, Luiz Carlos Marangon, Fabiana Maraschin‐Silva, Marcia C. M. Marques, Adriana Maria Zanforlin Martini, Valéria Forni Martins, Larissa Lopes Mellinger, Luís Fernando Tavares de Menezes, Sandra Bos Mikich, Luiz Fernando Duarte de Moraes, Marcelo Trindade Nascimento, Marcelo Augusto Meratti de Oliveira, Monique Perini, Julia Fleming Pimentel, Daniel Piotto, Rita de Cássia Quitete Portela, Janaine Isabela da Silva Rocha, Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues, Jerônimo Boelsums Barreto Sansevero, Amanda Souza dos Santos, Flavio Antonio Maës dos Santos, Jaqueline Pêgo Quintino Santos, Nelson Augusto Santos Junior, Tanise Luisa Sausen, Carlos Rodrigues da Silva, Joselane Príscila Gomes da Silva, Jorge Yoshio Tamashiro, Luiz Roberto Zamith, Leticia Bolian Zimback, Raquel Fernandes Zorzanelli, Victor Pereira Zwiener, Renato Augusto Ferreira de Lima, Luís Fábio Silveira, Marco Aurélio Pizo   +63 more
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Development and Psychometric Testing of the Breastfeeding Knowledge Scale (BKS) in Brazilian Healthcare Students

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Volume 32, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Rationale Breastfeeding is recognized as a cornerstone of maternal and child health, yet health professionals frequently report insufficient knowledge to provide effective support. Strengthening the evaluation of educational outcomes in health professions training is therefore essential to improve clinical practice and patient care. This study
Patrícia Lima Pereira Peres, Rachele Simeon, Maria Helena do Nascimento Souza, Giovanni Galeoto, Thaís Emanuele da Conceição, Anna Berardi, Donatella Valente, Rosane Harter Griep   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Brazil's Public Administration and the Challenge of New Democracies: Promoting Social Inclusion

Public Administration Review, Volume 86, Issue 2, Page 548-563, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT Brazil's public administration (PA) has sought to strengthen democratic governance through an emphasis on social inclusion. Since democratization in 1988, reforms have aimed to address entrenched inequalities along with decentralization and professionalism spurring innovations in social inclusion.
Evan M. Berman, Eduardo Grin, Gabriela Lotta, Fernando L. Abrucio, Lauro Gonzalez, Maira Gabriela Santos de Souza, Yasmim Marques de Melo, Jaedson Gomes dos Santos   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assistência Médica por Ciclos de Vida [PDF]

, 2012
As competências de um Médico de Família necessárias para atuação na estratégia de saúde da família, extrapolam seu núcleo de formação, geralmente voltadas à resolução de patologias instaladas e com pouca ênfase na promoção à saúde dos indivíduos.
Abdo, Rodrigo Ferreira, Chaves, Aderaldo Luiz Krause, Geniole, Leika Aparecida Ishiyama, Rotta, Maisse Fernandes de Oliveira, Wagner, Hamilton Lima   +4 more
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Apoio matricial [PDF]

, 2014
Este módulo trata do conceito e das bases do Apoio Matricial como um modo de produzir saúde de forma compartilhada, no qual os profissionais da Equipe de Saúde da Família (ESF) são apoiados pelos profissionais do Núcleo de Apoio à Saúde da Família (NASF)
Coelho, Elza Berger Salema, Delziovo, Carmem Regina, Lindner, Sheila Rubia, Moretti-Pires, Rodrigo Otávio   +3 more
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Naming the Wolves: Consumer Credit and Rentier Financialisation on the Brazilian Periphery

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract Recent social policy in Brazil has centred on a vision for financial inclusion that claims to alleviate poverty through credit‐based consumption. We argue that, contrary to these claims, Brazil's consumer credit boom has entrenched a financialised macroeconomic model in which debt and rentierism have become motors of the national economy ...
Jessica Sklair, Catarina Morawska, Maíra Vale   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A relevância da Imunização para a Longevidade e a necessária anuência de indivíduos do “Programa Acompanhante de Idosos”

Kairós Gerontologia, 2015
A vacina, substância quimicamente derivada, semelhante a um agente infecciosocausador de doenças, tem, por meio da imunização, atestados efeitos de proteção imunológicacontra determinadas doenças infecciosas, ao aumentar a resistência do organismo humano.
Carlos Lima Rodrigues, Cristiane Marcacine Kobiraki, Erica Maria Santos Gonçalves, Lívia Monteiro Lúcio, Maria de Jesus Batista Mendes Iannarelli, Elisabeth Frohlich Mercadante, Flamínia Manzano Moreira Lodovici   +6 more
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Estudo da prevalência da diabetes e das suas complicações numa coorte de diabéticos portugueses: Um estudo na rede médicos-sentinela

Revista Portuguesa de Medicina Geral e Familiar, 2008
Objectivos: Caracterizar uma coorte de diabéticos em relação ao sexo e idade; estimar a prevalência de diabetes de tipo 1 e 2; caracterizar os diabéticos de tipo 2 em relação à terapêutica prescrita, hábitos tabágicos e alcoólicos, ida à consulta de ...
Isabel Marinho Falcão, Cristina Pinto, Joana Santos, Maria De Lourdes Fernandes, Leonor Ramalho, Eleonora Paixão, José Marinho Falcão   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source