Mortality in community-dwelling elderly: coefficient and associated factors.

Objective: Analyze the coefficient, associated factors, and causes of mortality in community-dwelling elderly.

Method: Longitudinal and analytical study. Data collection, at baseline, was performed in the elderly's home.

Effects of an intervention program with health education and hatha yoga on the health of professionals with musculoskeletal symptoms.

Introduction: Musculoskeletal and mental disorders are relevant in the workers' disease process, and ergonomic interventions that include guidance and physical exercise consist of strategies of health promotion. Integrative and complementary practices are presented as a possibility of promoting comprehensive care and yoga consists of a therapeutic alternative.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of an intervention including educational measures and hatha yoga in musculoskeletal pain, disability, and stress in professionals of a university hospital.

Frailty in community-dwelling older people: comparing screening instruments.

Objective: To compare the Edmonton Frail Scale (EFS) and Clinical-Functional Vulnerability Index-20 (CFVI-20) instruments regarding degree of agreement and correlation and compare descriptive models with frailty-associated variables in community-dwelling older people in Brazil.

Methods: Cross-sectional study, nested in a population-based and household cohort. Baseline sampling was calculated based on a probabilistic approach by conglomerate in two stages.

Negative self-perception of health: prevalence and associated factors among elderly assisted in a reference center.

The negative self-perception of health is a relevant construct for the analysis of the elderly population health conditions and should be recognized as a guiding tool for health promotion actions. We aimed to verify the prevalence and the associated factors to a negative self-perception of health by elderly assisted in a reference center. This is an analytical cross-sectional study with convenience sampling conducted in 2015.

Health care are associated with worsening of frailty in community older adults.

Objective: To identify the factors associated with the worsening of frailty in older adults resident in the community.

Methods: This is a prospective, longitudinal, and analytical study. The data collection in the baseline occurred in the participants' homes from a random sampling by conglomerates.

Integrative and complementary practices: use by community health agents in self-care.

Objective: To verify the use of integrative and complementary practices (ICPs) by community health agents working in family health teams.

Methods: Cross-sectional, quantitative research, conducted in the city of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais. An structured form was used for the characterization of participants and use of ICPs.

Frailty in the elderly: prevalence and associated factors.

Objective: to know the prevalence and factors associated with frailty in elderly assisted by the Centro Mais Vida de Referência em Assistência à Saúde do Idoso (Mais Vida Health Reference Center for the Elderly) in the North of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Method: cross-sectional study, with sampling by convenience. Data collection occurred in 2015.

Quality Program: what influences the opinion of nursing team.

Objective: To analyze the major impact variables in the opinion of nursing staff about the Quality Program of a teaching hospital.

Methods: An exploratory-descriptive study was performed with 72 nursing staff. Data were collected through self-administered questionnaire containing 24 statements about the Quality Program; and the degree of agreement of the participants was expressed in a Likert scale.

Prevalence and factors associated with frailty in non-institutionalized older adults.

Objective: to investigate the prevalence and factors associated with frailty in non-institutionalized older adults living in northern Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Method: data were collected in their homes, in 2013, based on a census cluster sampling. Demographic and socioeconomic variables, morbidities, utilization of health care services, and scores on the Edmonton Fragility Scale were analyzed.

Quality of emergency rooms and urgent care services: user satisfaction.

Objective: To evaluate the quality of emergency rooms and urgent care services according to the satisfaction of their users.

Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study with a quantitative approach. The sample comprised 136 users and was drawn at random.

Factors associated with immunization against Hepatitis B among workers of the Family Health Strategy Program.

Unlabelled: Cross-sectional study conducted among workers of the Family Health Strategy Montes Claros.

Objective: To investigate the report of vaccination against Hepatitis B, verification of immunization and the factors associated with dosages of anti-HBs.

Method: We collected blood samples from those reported that they had one or more doses of the vaccine.

[Oceanography and King Dom Carlos I's collection of iconography].

After the Challenger expedition (1872-1878), other nations started to show interest in oceanographic research and organizing their own expeditions. As of 1885, Prince Albert I of Monaco conducted oceanographic campaigns with the collaboration of some of the best marine biologists and physical oceanographers of the day, inventing new techniques and instruments for the oceanographic work. Prince Albert's scientific activity certainly helped kindle the interest of his friend, Dom Carlos I, king of Portugal, in the study of the oceans and marine life.

The nursing staff opinion about the continuous quality improvement program of a university hospital.

Objective: To analyze the nursing staff opinion about the continuous quality improvement program at a University Hospital.

Methods: A descriptive study designed as a case study, analyzing the quality program at a University Hospital, with the opinion of a sample stratified by nursing team category through a self-administered questionnaire, from May to July 2012. The answers were submitted to factor analysis, having the dialectical and historical materialism as the theoretical-methodological reference.

Is vaccination against hepatitis B a reality among primary health care workers?

Objective: To verify the prevalence and factors associated with vaccination against hepatitis B among Primary Health Care workers in Montes Claros/MG.

Method: A cross-sectional, analytic study was undertaken. Data were collected through a form, which contained sociodemographic, occupational, general health and behavioral variables.

[Disease-related absenteeism among nursing team members in a teaching hospital].

The article presents results of the research that identified to causes of disease-related absenteeism, justified by medical license, among nursing employees of a public hospital in Montes Claros, MG, Brazil. This is a descriptive-exploratory study. Results indicate that the main reasons for absenteeism are related to musculoskeletal problems and to respiratory diseases; mainly between married female nurse aides, with age between 25 and 45 years, that works in day shift and with more than one employment.

Titanium dioxide anatase as matrix for matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization analysis of small molecules.

The use of inorganic species as assisting materials in matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) analysis is an alternative approach to avoid interfering matrix ions in the low-mass region of the mass spectra. Reports of the application of inorganic species as matrices in MALDI analysis of small molecules are, however, scarce. Nevertheless, titanium dioxide (TiO(2)) powder has been reported to be a promising matrix medium.

Temporal evolution of epithelial, vascular and interstitial lung injury in an experimental model of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis induced by butyl-hydroxytoluene.

This study was undertaken to test whether the structural remodelling of pulmonary parenchyma can be sequentially altered in a model and method that demonstrate the progression of the disease and result in remodelling within the lungs that is typical of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Three groups of mice were studied: (i) animals that received 3-5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxytoluene (BHT) and were killed after 2 weeks (early BHT = 9); (ii) animals that received BHT and were killed after 4 weeks (late BHT = 11); (iii) animals that received corn oil solution (control = 10). The mice were placed in a ventilated Plexiglas chamber with a mixture of pure humidified oxygen and compressed air.

Photodegradation of Diquat and Paraquat in aqueous solutions by titanium dioxide: evolution of degradation reactions and characterisation of intermediates.

The titanium dioxide assisted photodegradation of Diquat and Paraquat herbicides solutions has been the subject of the present investigation, considering its direct application in the treatment of contaminated waters and soils. To have a better understanding of the photodegradation process, different types of TiO2, commercial and 'home prepared' Ti(1-x)FexO2 (x = 0% and 4%), were used as catalysts, using an UV light as radiation source. The degradation reactions were followed by UV spectroscopy and the intermediates and reaction products were characterised by electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry (ESIMS) combined with collision-induced dissociation (CID) and tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS).