Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Brazilian Physicians about Immediate Postpartum and Postabortion Intrauterine Device Insertion.

Objective:  To assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of Brazilian physicians about immediate postpartum and postabortion intrauterine device insertion.

Methods:  Cross-sectional online survey involving physicians on duty in public Brazilian hospitals. Participants answered an anonymous questionnaire with close-ended questions to assess their knowledge, attitude, and experience on the immediate postpartum and postabortion insertion of copper intrauterine devices.

[Factors associated with inequalities in social conditions in the health of elderly white, brown and black people in the city of São Paulo, Brazil].

The scope of this study is to identify determining factors of disparities in social conditions in the health of non-institutionalized elderly people in the city of São Paulo, from the standpoint of self-declaration of skin color. It is a cross-sectional study with a representative sample of 1,017 elderly participants in the "2015 Health Survey of the Municipality of São Paulo". The analysis used crude and adjusted Poisson regression models, reporting the prevalence ratio and 95% confidence intervals as a measure of association between the variables.

Prevalence of headache and associated factors among adolescents: results of a population-based study.

Introduction: Cephalalgia is one of the most common somatic complaints related to health problems in childhood and adolescence.

Objective: To measure the cephalalgia prevalence in adolescents from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, and associated factors.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional population-based study, carried out in 2015, with 539 adolescents of both sexes, aged between 15 and 19 years.

Coverage, completeness and reliability of the data in the Information System on Live Births in public maternity wards in the municipality in São Paulo, Brazil, 2011.

Objective: to assess the coverage, completeness and reliability of data on live births in public maternity wards in São Paulo, Brazil.

Methods: data recorded in the Information System on Live Births (Sinasc) were compared with data collected in a field study (gold standard) during three months in 2011 in four maternity wards in hospital from the SUS network; kappa coefficient was calculated to assess agreement.

Results: 5,785 birth records were analyzed; Sinasc coverage was 99.

Adverse events and death in stroke patients admitted to the emergency department of a tertiary university hospital.

Objectives: To identify the occurrence of adverse events in stroke patients presenting to the emergency department of a tertiary university facility, and to disclose the categories of adverse events associated with death.

Methods: This matched case-control study enrolled 468 patients admitted with stroke to the emergency department from March 1996 to September 1999. The cases comprised 234 consecutive deaths and the controls 234 discharged patients, matched for primary diagnosis and admission period.