Frequency of Vitamin a Deficiency in Children Hospitalized for Pneumonia: An Integrative Review.

To identify the frequency of vitamin A deficiency in children aged 6 months to 5 years hospitalized for pneumonia. An integrative literature review was carried out, where searches were made by two independent researchers, with no language limits or publication time in the databases PubMed, LILACS, Web of Science, Scopus and CINAHL, and in the gray literature-OpenGrey, Proquest and Google Scholar. In the eligibility phase, the screened studies were read in full and those that did not answer the research question were excluded.

Gender and race inequalities in adolescent and young adult homicide mortality rates: a multilevel ecological analysis of Brazilian municipalities.

Objective: The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between adolescent and young adult homicide mortality rates in Brazilian municipalities according to gender, race, and contextual characteristics at the municipal and federation unit levels.

Methods: This is an ecological study that used secondary data available from the death records of the Mortality Information System and socioeconomic data from the Brazilian Census. The dependent variables were homicide mortality rates among people aged 15-29 years by sex and race from 2015 to 2017.

Overview of the mortality from external causes of reproductive-age women in Brazil.

Studies have shown that a new demographic and epidemiological profile has been emerging in women of childbearing age, mainly due to the increase in life expectancy, reduction in infant mortality, higher survival in old age, and the drop in fertility rate.To evaluate the external (violence) causes of mortality among women in Brazil from 2007 to 2016.This is a quantitative, ecological study of temporal trends and correlations of the main causes of mortality of women of childbearing age and their association with age, from 2007 to 2016 in Brazil.

Factors associated with poor access to health services in Brazil.

Objective: To analyze factors associated with poor access to health services among the Brazilian population aged 19 years or older.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study based on data from the 2013 National Health Survey, obtained from a complex sample. The poor access outcome was defined as not having received care the last time the participant sought a health service and not seeking care again for lack of accessibility.