Exploring Brazilian Immigrant Mothers' Beliefs and Practices Regarding Their Preschool Children's Oral Health: A Qualitative Study Conducted in the United States.

Parents' beliefs and practices significantly shape young children's oral health (OH), particularly during preschool years when these habits are being established. Immigrant parents often face challenges in promoting OH due to cultural, financial, and logistical barriers. This qualitative study explored OH beliefs, practices, and barriers among Brazilian immigrant mothers in the United States (U.

Analysis of the health advocacy concept from the perspective of the evolutionary method.

Objective: To analyze the concept of Health Advocacy from the methodological framework of the Evolutionary Model.

Method: The concept of interest was evaluated from the perspective of published studies identified in the databases: Web of Science, CINAHL, EMBASE, SCOPUS, MEDLINE and articles of interest. The attributes were determined from 19 scientific productions.

Time interval between onset of symptoms and COVID-19 testing in Brazilian state capitals, August 2020.

Objective: To analyze notifications of flu-like syndrome according to the time interval between onset of symptoms and testing for COVID-19.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study using records of flu-like syndrome cases containing results of COVID-19 diagnostic tests in the Brazilian state capitals and Federal District, held on the e-SUS Notifica system, from March 1st, 2020 to August 18th, 2020. The time interval between symptom onset and testing was compared using the ANOVA test, classifying it according to test adequacy/timeliness.