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Places to purchase food in urban and rural areas of Brazil.

Rev Bras Epidemiol

October 2024

Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Postgraduate Program in Nutrition and Health - Fortaleza (CE), Brazil.

Article Synopsis
  • The study aims to analyze where households in Brazil obtain food and beverages, focusing on urban versus rural locations and the level of food processing.
  • Data from 49,489 households collected through the Household Budget Survey revealed that over half of the households purchase food from supermarkets, with notable differences in food acquisition patterns between urban and rural areas.
  • The research highlights how community food environments influence food consumption habits, particularly in relation to ultra-processed foods, varying significantly between urban and rural settings.
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Objective: To analyze the temporal and spatial distribution of polio vaccine coverage in Brazilian states.

Methods: An ecological time series study was conducted using data from the National Immunization Program Information System. The analyzed period was from 1997 to 2021.

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Objective: To share the implementation of the Center for Documentation, Information, History and Memory of Nursing in Ceará - NUDIHMEn and its achievements in caring for, producing and preserving the history and the memory of Nursing in Ceará.

Method: It is an experience report regarding the work carried out in NUDIHMEN from 2009 to 2017.

Results: The NUDIHMEn holds a database of 1,454 newspaper articles, mapped data of 35 manuscript volumes of the Ecclesiastical History of Ceará about Nursing precursors, in addition to 23 minutes books from the Fortaleza Santa Casa (1879 to 1970), documentation belonging to the São Vicente de Paulo Nursing School, 8 scanned minutes books from the UECE Nursing Course, among other research resources.

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Objective: To critically reflect on the conceptual components of the Tidal Model in the application of the mental healthcare process.

Method: Critical analysis based on the Models of Theory Analysis, focused on the clarity and consistency of the theoretical components of the Tidal Model.

Results: The clarity of the theory was verified through the demonstration of the following components: functional, presuppositions, concepts and propositions.

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Objective: to understand the trajectory of adolescents regarding the first pregnancy, contemplating realities and perspectives.

Method: qualitative study, based on the Schütz theoretical framework, with 30 adolescents assisted in an outpatient clinic for adolescents in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. From the narrative interviews carried out in the first semester of 2013, in the return for the first consultation of the puerperium, the communicative processes were identified, the central ideas and units of meanings expressed in the themes were abstracted: I was dating and became pregnant; realities and perspectives.

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