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28/Mar/2025
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2025AO1132
Highlights ■ Most outpatient consultations comprised diagnostic procedures. ■ In the past 12 years, medical care for benign breast diseases has cost >USD 65 million. ■ Women from North and Midwest Brazil had higher diagnosis and treatment displacement rates. ABSTRACT Objective: To quantitatively and geospatially analyze coverage and displacement for the diagnosis and treatment of benign breast diseases in the Brazilian Unified Health System between 2008 and 2019. Methods: Datasets from the Brazilian Ministry of Health were used to survey […]
Keywords: Brazil; Breast diseases; Breast neoplasms; Demography; Epidemiology; Health expenditures; Healthcare costs; Hospitalization; Incidence; Primary healthcare; Public health; Strategy planning; Unified Health System
21/Oct/2024
21/Oct/2024
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2024AO0827
Highlights Herbal medicinal product use was 3.8%, with high formal prescription; however, it is accompanied by a high risk of interactions and redundancy. Unified Health System pharmacies are not the main source of herbal medicinal products, suggesting low service implementation. Women, people with mental disorders, and allopathy simultaneously users should receive attention. Non-white people are less likely to use herbal medicinal product, suggesting inequalities in accessing these treatments. ABSTRACT Objective: To determine the prevalence and factors associated with herbal medicinal […]
Keywords: Brazil; Epidemiology; Phytotherapy; Plants, medicinal; Primary Health Care; Risk Factors
20/Sep/2024
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2024AO0562
ABSTRACT In Brief Chikungunya fever compromises the functionality and quality of life in the affected individuals, even one year after the acute phase of the disease. Chronically affected people experience direct impairment in performing daily activities, along with a risk of developing other morbidities. Highlights Even after a year, chikungunya fever-affected people experience damage to their physical and mental health. Positive screening for depression risk was 13.5 times more likely in chronically affected. Patients with chronic chikungunya fever had a […]
Keywords: Chikungunya fever; Epidemiology; Pain; Quality of life
11/Apr/2024
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2024AO0546
Highlights The average age was 4.34±2.56 years. Highest prevalence in Brown and White races. Highest prevalence rate was found in the Southeast, followed by the Central-West and South. The majority of analyzed cases progressed to hospitalization. Prevalent respiratory failure, hematemesis, and melena are associated with both. Prevalence of changes in the level of consciousness, which is important at the central nervous system level. ABSTRACT Objective: The prevalent symptoms of severe dengue in pediatric patients are divided into three subgroups: severe […]
Keywords: Brazil; Child; Dengue; Epidemiology; Signs and symptoms
23/May/2023
23/May/2023
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2023AO0186
Highlights Neck circumference can be used in clinical evaluation for health monitoring. The prevalence of increased neck circumference is high and is associated with relative muscular strength in men and level of moderate and vigorous physical activity and relative muscular strength in women. Neck circumference is an important predictor of low moderate and vigorous physical activity and relative muscular strength in men, and the results are more pronounced in adult and older adult women. We suggest implementing exercise programs to […]
Keywords: Anthropometry; Epidemiology; Exercise; Hand strength; Measurement; Neck; Risk Factors; Sedentary behavior
30/Mar/2023
30/Mar/2023
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2023AO0043
Highlights Seventy-four (33.18%) municipalities in the state of Paraíba registered live births with microcephaly. The highest proportion of cases (23.03%) was concentrated in the capital, João Pessoa. Number of inhabitants, number of cases of Zika virus, water supply, and average household income were associated with a higher proportion of new cases. ABSTRACT Objective To analyze the relationship between microcephaly and social inequality indicators in the state of Paraíba during the biennium January 2015 and December 2016. Methods Ecological study with […]
Keywords: Epidemiology; Gender equity; Health inequities; Health information systems; Microcephaly; Social determinants of health; Social indicators; Zika virus; Zika virus infection
25/Apr/2022
25/Apr/2022
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2022AO6224
ABSTRACT Objective Headache and rhinitis are highly prevalent and comorbid. The objective of the present study is to analyze the correlation of headache and rhinitis, in addition to the temporal pattern of these diseases in 17 years, using the Google Trends platform. Methods Google Trends was searched from January 2004 to June 2021, using the entry: [“rinite” (rhinitis) + “dor de cabeça” (headache)” + “Alzheimer” + “enxaqueca” (migraine)]. Migraine, primary headache, and Alzheimer’s, with no clear relation with headache, were […]
Keywords: Alzheimer disease; Big data; Epidemiology; Headache; Migraine disorders; Rhinitis
04/Mar/2022
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2022AO6241
ABSTRACT Objective To analyze clinical and sociodemographic characteristics associated with death and hospitalization of healthcare workers due to COVID-19, in addition to calculating the incidence rates per profession. Methods A cross-sectional observational study using secondary open data from the State Health Department of Espírito Santo (ES), Brazil. The cases of COVID-19 in healthcare workers were recorded between February 27 and August 17, 2020, in Espírito Santo, excluding cases with missing information. Results Of the confirmed cases, 75.6% (n=9,191) were female. […]
Keywords: Brazil; Coronavirus infections; COVID-19; Epidemiology; Health personnel; Occupational Health; SARS-CoV-2
23/Feb/2022
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2022AO6131
ABSTRACT Objective To describe the clinical characteristics and treatment of children with sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock at a pediatric emergency department of a public hospital. Methods A retrospective, observational study. The medical records of patients included in the hospital Pediatric Sepsis Protocol and patients with discharge ICD-10 A41.9 (sepsis, unspecified), R57 (shock) and A39 (meningococcal meningitis) were evaluated. Results A total of 399 patients were included. The prevalence of sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock at the emergency […]
Keywords: Child; Emergency medical services; Epidemiology; Infant; International Classification of Diseases; Length of stay; Patient discharge; Sepsis; Shock, septic
25/Nov/2021
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2021GS6616
ABSTRACT Objective: To investigate trends in terms of number and cost of intravitreal injection, photocoagulation and panphotocoagulation procedures performed by the Brazilian Public Health System, from 2010 to 2019. Methods: The Brazilian Public Health System Database was used as the primary source of data. Intravitreal injection, photocoagulation and panphotocoagulation procedures performed from 2010 to 2019 were investigated. Procedure prevalence and cost trends were analyzed according to year and region. Annual trends were examined using generalized linear models, with a significance […]
Keywords: Epidemiology; Health care costs; Intravitreal injections; Light coagulation; Public health surveillance; Retinal diseases/epidemiology