Browsing by Subject "South American Indians"

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    • Avaliação antropométrica de adolescentes Kamayurá, povo indígena do Alto Xingu, Brasil Central (2000-2001) 

      Sampei, Miriam Akemi [UNIFESP]; Canó, Eduardo Nozaki [UNIFESP]; Fagundes Neto, Ulysses [UNIFESP]; Lima, Evandro Emilio de Souza [UNIFESP]; Rodrigues, Douglas [UNIFESP]; Sigulem, Dirce Maria [UNIFESP]; Baruzzi, Roberto Geraldo [UNIFESP] (Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2007-06-01)
      Despite the proximity between indigenous groups in the Upper Xingu Region and Brazilian national society, studies have shown adequate weight-for-height and low height-for-age in indigenous children. Little is known about ...

    • Demographic dynamics of the Suyá, a Jê people of the Xingu Indigenous Park, Central Brazil, 1970-2004 

      Pagliaro, Heloisa [UNIFESP]; Carvalho, Natália da Silva [UNIFESP]; Rodrigues, Douglas Antonio [UNIFESP]; Baruzzi, Roberto Geraldo [UNIFESP] (Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2007-05-01)
      This paper analyses the demographic dynamics of the Suyá, a Jê people, inhabitants of the Xingu Indigenous Park, Mato Grosso State, Brazil, during the years 1970-2004. Data was gathered from medical records of the São Paulo ...

    • Demographic profile of Bororo Indians from Mato Grosso State, Brazil, 1993-1996 

      Souza, Luciene Guimaraes de; Pagliaro, Heloisa [UNIFESP]; Santos, Ricardo Ventura (Cadernos Saude Publica, 2009-02-01)
      This paper analyzes the demographic profile of the Bororo Indians from Mato Grosso State, Brazil, from 1993 to 1996. Data came from annual collection and registration of vital statistics conducted by the health service in ...

    • Estado nutricional de crianças índias do Alto Xingu em 1980 e 1992 e evolução pondero-estatural entre o primeiro e o quarto anos de vida 

      Morais, Mauro Batista de [UNIFESP]; Fagundes Neto, Ulysses [UNIFESP]; Mattos, Ângela Peixoto De; Baruzzi, Roberto Geraldo [UNIFESP] (Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2003-04-01)
      This study focused on the under-five population of the Alto Xingu region in Brazil, with the following objectives: (1) to evaluate height and weight increment from the first through the fourth years of life and (2) to ...

    • Estado nutricional de crianças índias terenas: evolução do peso e estatura e prevalência atual de anemia 

      Morais, Mauro Batista de [UNIFESP]; Alves, Gildney Maria Dos Santos; Fagundes-neto, Ulysses [UNIFESP] (Sociedade Brasileira de Pediatria, 2005-10-01)
      OBJECTIVE: This study of Terena Indian children less than 10 years old was undertaken in order to compare weight and height in 1995 and 2002 and to evaluate anemia prevalence in 2002. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional ...

    • Estado nutricional e teste do hidrogênio no ar expirado com lactose e lactulose em crianças indígenas terenas 

      Alves, Gildney Maria Dos Santos; Morais, Mauro Batista de [UNIFESP]; Fagundes-neto, Ulysses [UNIFESP] (Sociedade Brasileira de Pediatria, 2002-04-01)
      Objective: to evaluate the nutritional status, absorption and tolerance of lactose and the occurrence of small-bowel bacterial overgrowth. Methods: a cross-sectional study including all 264 Terena Indian children younger ...

    • Haplotypes of alpha-globin gene regulatory element in two Brazilian native populations 

      Ribeiro, D. M.; Figueiredo, M. S.; Costa, F. F.; Sonati, M. F. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003-05-01)
      The alpha-major regulatory element (alpha-MRE), located 40 Kb far upstream of the alpha-globin gene cluster on chromosome 16, is involved in the regulation of human at-globin genes expression. the activity of this element ...

    • Marcadores sorológicos e genéticos da hanseníase em uma comunidade indígena no estado do Acre 

      Teles, Stefanie Ferreira [UNIFESP] (Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), 2019-06-27)
      Introduction: Leprosy, although presenting a decrease in the number of new cases since the introduction of polychemotherapy (MDT), remains endemic in countries such as India, Brazil, Indonesia, among others, persisting as ...

    • Oral health care in the Xingu Indigenous Park, Brazil, from 2004 to 2013: an analysis based on evaluation indicators 

      Lemos, Pablo Natanael [UNIFESP]; Rodrigues, Douglas Antonio [UNIFESP]; Frazao, Paulo; Hirooka, Lucila Brandao; Guisilini, Alana Cristina; Narvai, Paulo Capel (Cadernos Saude Publica, 2018)
      In 2011, the Brazilian National Oral Health Policy redefined its model of care for indigenous peoples, recommending the use of epidemiology and follow-up of the impact of activities using adequate indicators. The current ...

    • Perfil demográfico dos Hupd'äh, povo Maku da região do Alto Rio Negro, Amazonas (2000-2003) 

      Machado, Marina; Pagliaro, Heloísa [UNIFESP]; Baruzzi, Roberto Geraldo [UNIFESP] (Associação Brasileira de Estudos Populacionais, 2009-06-01)
      The Hupd'äh are a people of the Maku language who live in the Upper Rio Negro Region in Amazonas, Brazil. Indigenous leaders, anthropologists, missionaries and health professionals all say that this population lives under ...