The production of health news by the press: the context of the coverage of the 2007/2008 yellow fever epidemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic scenario raises the amplification of the debate around the production and circulation of information about epidemics. In this sense, the objective of this article is to discuss how social contexts shape the news, taking as an example the case of the news coverage that transformed an epizootic of yellow fever, in the summer of 2007/2008, into an epidemic of urban yellow fever. This is a qualitative research with journalists who worked in two large circulation newspapers and actively participated in the coverage of the event.

Most-cited public health articles of scientific journals from Brazil.

Objective: To describe the most-cited articles in public health scientific journals edited in Brazil.

Methods: Articles published between 2008 and 2010 by public health journals edited in Brazil and indexed in the Scopus database were included, and citations received up to five years after publication were ranked. We studied a total of 105 articles, as the last seven articles shared the same number of citations and so were given the same rank.

Uncited articles in Brazilian public health journals.

Here, we describe the percentage of non-citation in Brazilian public health journals, a field that, until now, had not been investigated nationally or internationally. We analyzed articles, published between 2008 and 2012, of eight public health journals indexed in the scopus database. The percentage of non-citation differs between journals (from 5.

Information literacy: perceptions of Brazilian HIV/AIDS researchers.

Background: Information literacy has evolved with changes in lifelong learning. Can Brazilian health researchers search for and use updated scientific information?

Objectives: To describe researchers' information literacy based on their perceptions of their abilities to search for and use scientific information and on their interactions with libraries.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews and focus group conducted with six Brazilian HIV/AIDS researchers.

[Reproductive health: a contribution to the evaluation of a virtual library].

Virtual libraries have been implemented in an attempt to organize scientific information found in the Internet, including the Biblioteca Virtual de Saúde Reprodutiva (BVSR), or Virtual Library on Reproductive Health. The aim is to provide quality information to researchers in the reproductive health field. The current study evaluates the use of the BVSR, emphasizing the users' expectations, difficulties, and suggestions.

[The Internet influence on the academic-scientific public health community].

Objective: To investigate the influence of the Internet on the academic-scientific activities of the Brazilian public health community.

Methods: This was a descriptive study, centered on the opinions of 237 teachers connected with Brazilian postgraduate programs in public health, at master's and doctoral levels, in 2001. Data were collected by means of a self-administered questionnaire via the Internet and traditional mail.