"We want to hug a friend": the covid-19 pandemic among low-income adolescents.

Objective: To examine the perceptions of adolescent students from a public school, of both sexes, living in a peripheral region of the city of São Paulo, Brazil, in relation to the covid-19 pandemic, with a special focus on their experiences regarding education and sociability.

Methods: This study is part of the Global Early Adolescent Study. Seven face-to-face focus groups were conducted with adolescents between 13 and 16 years old (19 girls and 15 boys) in 2021.

Scientific literature on food and nutrition security in primary health care: A scoping review.

There is a growing interest in the scientific community regarding Primary Health Care practices aiming at assessing and addressing Food and Nutrition Security. The focus is usually on outcomes, instruments and effectiveness, with no concern regarding theories or concepts. We aimed to map the theoretical frameworks regarding practices towards Food and Nutrition Security in Primary Health Care and describe its conceptualisations based on Ludwik Fleck's epistemological approach.

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.

Personal, relational and school factors associated with involvement in fights with weapons among school-age youth in Brazil: a multilevel ecological approach.

Objectives: To investigate the association between personal, relational and school factors with involvement in fights with weapon among Brazilian school-age youth.

Methods: Using data from the Adolescent School-Based Health Survey 2015 (n = 102.072), we conducted multilevel logistic regression models.

Food environments in schools and in the immediate vicinity are associated with unhealthy food consumption among Brazilian adolescents.

Background: Evidence of the influence of the school food environment on adolescent diet is still little explored in low- and middle-income countries. We aimed to evaluate the association between food environment in schools and the immediate vicinity and the regular consumption of unhealthy food among adolescents.

Methods: We used cross-sectional data collected by the Brazilian National Survey of School Health (PeNSE) from a representative sample of adolescents attending 9th grade public and private schools in Brazil, in 2012.

Editorial challenges of the Revista de Saúde Pública.

The editors of the Revista de Saúde Pública describe the journal's editorial profile and discuss the challenges of scientific publication in the area. A historical overview of almost 50 years of the journal is reported, with the temporal projection of their bibliometric indicators. Qualitative and quantitative parameters of its editorial profile and indexes are also reported.

The Role of School Environment in Physical Activity among Brazilian Adolescents.

Objective: To analyze the association of physical activity facilities and extracurricular sports activities in schools with physical activity among adolescents.

Methodology/principal Findings: We used data collected for the National Survey of School Health in 2012. The national representative sample comprised 109,104 Brazilian students from 2,842 schools.

Antiretroviral treatment adherence in childhood and adolescence: multidisciplinary team as an associated factor in Brazil.

Our aim was to analyze factors associated with non-adherence to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment among children and adolescents. A cross-sectional study was carried out involving non-institutionalized children and adolescents between 2 and 20 years of age, addressing non-adherence to ARV treatment, which was defined as taking ≤89% of the medications on the day of the interview and the three previous days. The investigation into the association between non-compliance and the variables of interest was performed using unconditional logistic regression.

[Does orphanhood by aids or by homicide effect nutritional status of children?].

The aims of this paper were to evaluate the nutritional status of children orphaned by aids or homicides in the city of São Paulo and to estimate the association of nutritional indexes with orphanhood-related variables. The study was a household survey carried out between 2006 and 2007. We sampled 484 children representative of São Paulo, 5-14 years old who lost either or both of their parents from aids or homicides between 2000 and 2004.

Impact of exposure to intimate partner violence on children's behavior.

Objective: To analyze the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) against women and children's dysfunctional behaviors and school problems.

Methods: Population-based study part of the WHO Multicountry Study on Domestic Violence Against Women including 790 women living with their children aged five to 12 years in two different regions of Brazil: the city of São Paulo, Southeastern Brazil, and Zona da Mata area in the state of Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil. Three multivariate models were developed to estimate the strength of the relationship between explanatory variables such as social and community support, stressful events of life, sociodemographic factors and "IPV severity," among others, and three outcomes: number of dysfunctional behaviors; aggressive behavior; and school problems (interruption, drop out or failure).

Association between intimate partner violence against women and HIV infection.

Objective: To analyze the association between intimate partner violence against women and infection or suspected infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted, based on data from questionnaires applied face-to-face and medical records of 2,780 women aged between 15 and 49 years, cared for in Sistema Único de Saúde (Unified Health System) units of the Greater São Paulo area, Southeastern Brazil, in 2001-2002. Women were categorized into: users in treatment because they are "HIV seropositive", those "suspected of having HIV" and others who sought health services for different reasons.

Physical activity level among children and adolescents orphaned by AIDS.

Objective: To estimate the level of physical activity among children and adolescents orphaned by AIDS according to socio-demographic and orphanhood-related characteristics.

Methods: A population-based study was carried out with 235 children and adolescents aged 7 to 14 years in the municipality of São Paulo, SP, in 2007. Children were classified as active and inactive.

[Factors associated with intimate partner violence against Brazilian women].

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of physical and/or sexual violence by intimate partners and factors associated with this, in different sociocultural contexts.

Methods: This cross-sectional study formed part of the 'WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women'. It consisted of representative samples of women from the municipality of São Paulo (Southeastern Brazil) and from the Zona da Mata of Pernambuco (Northeastern Brazil), this latter is a region with more traditional gender norms.

[Intimate partner sexual violence among men and women in urban Brazil, 2005].

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of intimate partner sexual violence among men and women of the Brazilian urban population and factors associated to it.

Methods: The data analyzed is part of the study conducted between 1998 and 2005 among urban populations in Brazil. The data was obtained by means of a questionnaire applied to a representative sample of 5.

[Changes in HIV testing in Brazil between 1998 and 2005].

Objective: To analyze changes in HIV testing, reasons reported by those who were tested or not and received counseling.

Methods: Cross-sectional studies conducted in both men and women aged 16 to 65 years based on representative samples of urban Brazil in 1998 (n=3,600) and 2005 (n=5,040). Sociodemographic, sexual, reproductive characteristics, life experiences and health data were collected and analyzed.

[Prevalence of intimate partner violence against women in regions of Brazil].

Objective: To analyze the results from the "WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence", on the prevalence of intimate partner violence against women found in Brazil.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was part of the "WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against women", which was carried out in ten countries between 2000 and 2003. All the countries used a standardized structured questionnaire, devised for this study.

Desire to have children: gender and reproductive rights of men and women living with HIV: a challenge to health care in Brazil.

Links between HIV/AIDS care and reproductive health, including fertility options for people living with HIV (PLWH), have not been sufficiently addressed by health care providers. Moreover, few studies have addressed men in this regard. To describe attitudes toward parenthood and identify factors associated with desire to have children among men and women living with HIV a cross-sectional study involving a sample of 533 women and 206 men (bisexual and heterosexual) attending two reference sexually transmitted disease (STD)/AIDS centers in São Paulo, Brazil.

[Quality of procedures delivered by nursing assistants].

Objective: To assess the quality of nursing care provided in inhalation, peripheral venipuncture, and administration of intra-muscular medication procedures in the context of professional training of nursing assistants.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in two phases among nursing staff (nurse assistants as well as unlicensed nursing personnel), in three hospitals in the state of Bahia, Northeastern Brazil, in October and December 2001 and 2002. Data was collected by means of direct observation of task performance and analysis of the median values of performance.

[Nutritional rehabilitation of undernourished and nutritionally at-risk children admitted to a supplementary food program in Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo, Brazil].

This study aimed to evaluate the nutritional rehabilitation of undernourished children admitted to a program entitled Incentives to Fight Nutritional Deficiencies (ICCN) in Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo, Brazil. The study included 724 children (6 to 24 months old) from July 1999 to July 2001. The indices used to evaluate baseline nutritional status were weight-for-age, weight-for-length, and length-for-age, defining normal as z score > or = -1, at-risk as > or = -2 and < -1, moderate malnutrition as < -2 and > -3, and severe malnutrition as < or = -3.

[Orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS in Brazil: where do we stand and where are we heading?].

This study aimed at identifying human rights' status and situation, as expressed in the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, of children and adolescents living with HIV/AIDS, non-orphans and orphans affected by AIDS, based on local and international literature review. The main study findings did not allow to accurately estimating those children and adolescents living with HIV and non-orphans affected by HIV/AIDS but data was available on those living with AIDS and orphans. The limitations and possibilities of these estimates obtained from surveillance systems, mathematical models and surveys are discussed.

Factors associated with institutionalization of children orphaned by AIDS in a population-based survey in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Background: There are increasing numbers of children orphaned by AIDS, especially in countries without universal free AIDS treatment. As institutionalization is associated with bad health and developmental outcomes, we have identified the factors associated with the institutionalization of AIDS orphans in a population-based survey in a city in southern Brazil.

Methods: Using AIDS mortality and healthcare registries from 1998 to 2001, a cross-sectional study was conducted among the caregivers of children aged 0-14 years who were the survivors of parents dying of AIDS in Porto Alegre.

Factors associated with condom use among youth aged 15-24 years in Brazil in 2003.

Objective: To analyse factors associated with the lack of condom use among young people at last sexual intercourse with a steady or casual partner.

Design: A cross-sectional study involving 1170 household interviews and designed to build a representative sample of the population of young Brazilian residents aged 15-24 years (2003).

Methods: In the multivariate analysis of data, non-conditional logistic regression modelling was applied to assess the determinants of condom use at last sexual intercourse among young people with steady or casual partners.