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The Fraction of Cancer Attributable to Ways of Life, Infections, Occupation, and Environmental Agents in Brazil in 2020

This is the first study to systematically estimate the fraction of cancer attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in Brazil and suggests strategies for primary prevention of tobacco smoking and control of infection and the promotion of a healthy diet and physical activity should be the main priorities in policies for cancer prevention in the country.
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Mortality due to acute myocardial infarction in Brazil and its geographical regions: analyzing the effect of age-period-cohort.

It was concluded that the observed differences in the risk of death in Brazilian regions is the result of socio-economic inequalities and poor access to health services within the Brazilian territory, favoring early mortality for this cause especially in poorer areas.
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Tuberculosis, HIV, and poverty: temporal trends in Brazil, the Americas, and worldwide.

The incidence of tuberculosis was found to trend downward in Brazil, whereas it trended upward worldwide, and social inequality and the advent of AIDS are the major factors that aggravate the current situation of tuberculosis.
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Trends and predictions for gastric cancer mortality in Brazil.

AIM To analyze the effect of age-period and birth cohort on gastric cancer mortality, in Brazil and across its five geographic regions, by sex, in the population over 20 years of age, as well as make…
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Healthy life-expectancy and multimorbidity among older adults: Do inequality and poverty matter?

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DDT reintroduction for malaria control: the cost-benefit debate for public health.

The aims of the current study were to review the principal toxicological effects of DDT on reproduction, stratifying by physiological periods of exposure, and to discuss the cost-benefit relationship of reintroducing DDT with the specifically defined vector control criteria.
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Test-retest reliability of Brazilian version of Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale for assessing symptoms in cancer patients

High level of reliability estimated suggests that the process of measurement of Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale aspects was adequate, and suggests that it was necessary to translate and culturally adapted into Brazilian Portuguese.
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Pesticide exposure and low birth weight prevalence in Brazil.

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[Temporal analysis of the relationship between leptospirosis and the occurrence of flooding due to rainfall in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2007-2012].

It is necessary to implement the interaction between the work of epidemiological surveillance, especially by situation rooms in periods of crisis, and the risk management teams of environmental surveillance, to increase the response capacity to natural disasters in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro.
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Harmful consumption of alcoholic beverages among users of a Family Health Unit

A high prevalence of harmful alcohol consumption strongly associated with male patients, with lower education and income up to two times the minimum wage is observed.
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