[Exposure to violence among adolescents in a low-income community in the northeast of Brazil].

This a cross-sectional study made in Fortaleza, Ceará, 2009, which included 458 teenagers and analyzed their exposure to violence, describing their access to weapons, alcohol abuse, illegal drug use and their self-esteem by investigating their socio-economic, school and family characteristics and exposure to the phenomenon. A questionnaire and/or structured interviews were used for data collection, and analysis involved Pearson's chi-square test, with 95% reliability. Of the 458 participants, 17.

[Impact of violence on the health of families at Fortaleza, Ceará State].

The study describes the impact of the violence on the quality of life of the families, which were attended at the Relatives and Friends Violence Victims Association (ARFVV) in Fortaleza, Ceará State. The case study was accomplished among five mothers that were involved in a NGO on the battle against the violence. The semi-structured interview, the participation at the institution's meetings and the documental research were the data collecting techniques, being these last ones, submitted to the thematic analysis and discussed according to the literature and Letters of Health Promotion.

[Nursing research and epidemiologic profile of the northeast].

This study aim at analyzing the relationship between the epidemic profile of the Brazilian Northeastern region and the scientific production of the Masters Degree Program in Nursing/UFC, through the identification of the themes researched between 1995 and 2001. In order to achieve these objectives, we developed an exploratory and descriptive study which had as its primary source data from OPAS/OMS, demographic and socioeconomic indicators and IDB for 2000, which reflected on the classification of themes according to the "Categorical Scheme for Lines of research". Results showed that most of the scientific production in this program relates to the following lines of research: life quality and determinants of disease and health (71.

[Measures developed by the public health system to prevent accidents and violence in children and adolescents in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil].

This article deals with measures developed by the public health system to prevent accidents and violence in children in Fortaleza, Ceará State, Brazil. The program resulted from the need perceived by the authors in light of statistics on mortality from external causes in childhood and adolescence and the fact that there was apparently no preventive action being taken by the public health system. We conducted a questionnaire-based survey of health administrators in the six Regional Executive Secretariats (SERs) corresponding to the geographic districts in which the health system is divided in Fortaleza.