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J Knee Surg
March 2022
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Gout is the most common inflammatory arthritis and affects approximately 4% of the U.S. population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClinics (Sao Paulo)
August 2020
Programa de Pos Graduacao em Gestao e Informatica em Saude, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, BR.
Objective: To verify whether health councils in Brazil carry out permanent education activities for municipal, state and federal district councilors.
Method: This was a cross-sectional study with secondary data collection in the Health Council Monitoring System (Sistema de Acompanhamento dos Conselhos de Saúde - Siacs) from May to August 2017. The Siacs is publicly accessible and available on the internet.
Health Hum Rights
December 2017
Governing councilor of the International Health Section of the American Public Health Association.
Effective HIV prevention requires the protection and empowerment of marginalized groups at high risk of infection. However, many policies persist that stigmatize these groups and hinder HIV prevention efforts, including HIV-related travel restrictions. In the Republic of Korea, which requires HIV tests for certain visa categories, these restrictions negatively affect the national HIV response and access to accurate information on effective HIV prevention.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Environ Res Public Health
October 2017
Hong Kong Workers' Health Centre, Room 1429 Beverley Commercial Centre, Tsimshatsui, Hong Kong, China.
As millions of immigrants moved to Hong Kong (HK) from China in the recent decades, large amount of residential housings were built in the early years and a substantial proportion of those buildings used asbestos-containing materials (ACMs). Since the number of new cases of ARDs diagnosed has increased year by year since 1990's, the remarkable increase of incidences had drawn the attention of the public and most importantly the HK government. It became one of the trigger points leading to asbestos ban in HK history.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRev Gaucha Enferm
March 2017
Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, Departamento de Saúde Coletiva. Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brasil.
Objective: To know the structure of the social representations of right to health and citizenship of health municipal councilors.
Method: This is a qualitative study, based on the central nucleus theory of social representations, carried out in eight municipalities of the Integrated Region for the Development of the Surroundings of the Federal District, Brazil. The intentional sample consisted of municipal health councilors.
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