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Sexual violence against women in the Western Amazon. [PDF]

Rev Saude Publica, 2021
RESUMO OBJETIVO: Caracterizar os casos de violência sexual sofridos por mulheres notificadas pelo Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação no município de Rio Branco (AC) no período de 2011 a 2016. MÉTODOS: Estudo descritivo com base nas informações do Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação.
Cargnin JSS, Luna JS, Aguiar DM, Rodrigues BTC, Azevedo Filho AA, Silveira RP.   +5 more
europepmc   +5 more sources

Mapping the Silent Threat: A Comprehensive Analysis of Chagas Disease Occurrence in Riverside Communities in the Western Amazon [PDF]

Pathogens
Chagas disease (CD) is a typical tropical illness caused by Trypanosoma cruzi. The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of Chagas disease in communities in two states of the Brazilian Amazon.
Daniela da Silva Paixão, Fernanda Portela Madeira, Adila Costa de Jesus, Hêmilly Caroline da Silva Paixão, Juliana de Souza Almeida Aranha Camargo, Mariane Albuquerque Lima Ribeiro, Leandro José Ramos, Jader de Oliveira, João Aristeu da Rosa, Paulo Sérgio Bernarde, Antonieta Pereira Relvas, Sergio de Almeida Basano, Luis Marcelo Aranha Camargo, Dionatas Ulises de Oliveira Meneguetti   +13 more
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Hanseniasis in the municipality of Western Amazon (Acre, Brazil): are we far from the goal of the World Health Organization?: Hansen and Western Amazon. [PDF]

Braz J Infect Dis, 2021
Hanseniasis is a public health concern in developing countries. Although a decrease in the number of new cases in Brazil has been reported, there is a prevalence above that recommended in some regions.Considering the goal of the World Health Organization (WHO) to accelerate towards a leprosy-free world from 2020, the aim of this study was to analyze ...
Araújo FA, Abreu LC, Laporta GZ, Santos VS, Moreira JGV, Grumach AS.   +5 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Outbreak of Oropouche virus in frontier regions in western Amazon. [PDF]

Microbiol Spectr
ABSTRACT Oropouche virus (OROV) is characterized as a re-emerging arbovirus of great concern for public health, being responsible for several outbreaks of acute fever identified in Latin American countries, registering more than half a million reported cases.
Moreira HM, Sgorlon G, Queiroz JAS, Roca TP, Ribeiro J, Teixeira KS, Passos-Silva AM, Araújo A, Gasparelo NWF, Dos Santos AdO, Lugtenburg CAB, Roque RA, Villalobos Salcedo JM, Pereira DB, Vieira D.   +14 more
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Wildlife roadkill patterns in a fragmented landscape of the Western Amazon. [PDF]

Ecol Evol, 2020
AbstractOne of the most evident and direct effects of roads on wildlife is the death of animals by vehicle collision. Understanding the spatial patterns behind roadkill helps to plan mitigation measures to reduce the impacts of roads on animal populations.
Filius J, van der Hoek Y, Jarrín-V P, van Hooft P.   +3 more
europepmc   +5 more sources

Breastfeeding patterns and factors associated with early weaning in the Western Amazon. [PDF]

Rev Saude Publica, 2021
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: To characterize breastfeeding patterns in the first six months of life and factors associated with early weaning in a birth-cohort in Rio Branco, state of Acre. METHODS: This is a prospective study with all babies born between April and June 2015.
Martins FA, Ramalho AA, Andrade AM, Opitz SP, Koifman RJ, Silva IFD.   +5 more
europepmc   +5 more sources

INACTIVE BEHAVIOR IN ADOLESCENT STUDENTS OF THE BRAZILIAN WESTERN AMAZON. [PDF]

Rev Paul Pediatr, 2019
ABSTRACT Objective: To identify the prevalence of physical inactivity in adolescent students in the city of Porto Velho, RO, Northern Brazil, and its associated factors. Methods: School-based study, conducted with 2,694 adolescents. The self-reported variable for outcome was physical inactivity.
Farias EDS, Carvalho WRG, Moraes AM, Santos JPD, Gemelli IFB, Souza OF.   +5 more
europepmc   +7 more sources

HTLV-2 infection in Manaus, Brazil: first description of HTLV-2c subtype in an urban area of the Western Amazon region [PDF]

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2020
INTRODUCTION: We investigated the prevalence of human T-cell lymphotropic virus types 1 and 2 (HTLV-1/2) infection in patients with hematological diseases from the western Amazon region of Brazil.
Gemilson Soares Pontes, Hygor Halyson Figueiredo Ribeiro, Diana Mota Toro, José Pereira de Moura Neto, Victor Souza, Maria Edilene Martins de Almeida, Valdinete Alves do Nascimento, Cristovão Alves da Costa, Felipe Gomes Naveca, Mike Santos, Antonio Carlos Rosário Vallinoto   +10 more
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Future of oil and gas development in the western Amazon

Environmental Research Letters, 2015
The western Amazon is one of the world’s last high-biodiversity wilderness areas, characterized by extraordinary species richness and large tracts of roadless humid tropical forest.
Matt Finer, Bruce Babbitt, Sidney Novoa, Francesco Ferrarese, Salvatore Eugenio Pappalardo, Massimo De Marchi, Maria Saucedo, Anjali Kumar   +7 more
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JUDICIALIZATION OF HEALTH IN THE WESTERN AMAZON

International Journal for Innovation Education and Research, 2021
The present work addresses the theme of health judicialization and its impacts within the budget. It analyzes the financial effects of court decisions in the Municipal Health Secretariat of Porto Velho, capital of the state of Rondônia. As a temporal delimitation, the period between the years 2014 to 2017 was taken into account.
Layde Lana Borges da Silva, Isabela Esteves Cury Coutinho, ROSALINA ALVES NANTES, Everson da Silva Vieira, Karina Rocha Prado, Maria Janina da Silva Manoel   +5 more
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