Vol. 40 No. 3 (2006)

Landmarks from the first ten years

• Assessment of the National Health Plan

  365-380

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• Policy and planning: the Leonel Miranda Health Plan

  Celia Almeida

  381-385

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• The "1967 National Health Plan" and today's "prepaid health plans": anything in common?

  Jairnilson Silva Paim

  386-388

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• Sistematical mass roentgenphotography: economical unviability and eventual danger regarding exposure to radiations

  Febus Gikovate, Diogo Pupo Nogueira

  389-396

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• Health technologies and the fine balance between risks and benefits

  Mauricio L Barreto

  397-399

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• The case detection of tuberculosis through mass x-ray examination: the cost and implications

  Antonio Ruffino-Netto

  400-401

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Original Articles

• The 2004 Pelotas birth cohort: methods and description

  Aluísio J D Barros, Iná da Silva dos Santos, Cesar G Victora, Elaine P Albernaz, Marlos R Domingues, Iândora K Timm, Alicia Matijasevich, Andréa D Bertoldi, Fernando C Barros

  402-413

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• Air pollution effects on myocardial infarction

  Sônia Cendon, Luiz A A Pereira, Alfésio L F Braga, Gleice M S Conceição, Abraão Cury Junior, Hélio Romaldini, Antônio C Lopes, Paulo H N Saldiva

  414-419

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• Prevalence of dyspepsia and associated sociodemographic factors

  Sandro Schreiber de Oliveira, Iná da Silva dos Santos, José Francisco Pereira da Silva, Eduardo Coelho Machado

  420-427

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• Factors associated with pulmonary disease among the elderly

  Priscila Maria Stolses Bergamo Francisco, Maria Rita Donalisio, Marilisa Berti de Azevedo Barros, Chester Luis Galvão César, Luana Carandina, Moisés Goldbaum

  428-435

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• Individual factors associated with medical consultation by adults

  Marcelo F Capilheira, Iná da Silva dos Santos

  436-443

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• Price differences between generic and innovator medicines in Brazil

  Fabiola Sulpino Vieira, Paola Zucchi

  444-449

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• Performance of rubella suspect case definition: implications for surveillance

  Solange Artimos de Oliveira, Luiz Antonio Bastos Camacho, Antonio Carlos de Medeiros Pereira, Marília Mattos Bulhões, Angélica Fortes Aguas, Marilda Mendonça Siqueira

  450-456

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• Obesity and gestational weight gain: cesarean delivery and labor complications

  Luiz Carlos Seligman, Bruce Bartholow Duncan, Leandro Branchtein, Dea Suzana Miranda Gaio, Sotero Serrate Mengue, Maria Inês Schmidt

  457-465

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• Consequences of sociodemographic inequalities on birth weight

  Maria do Carmo Leal, Silvana Granado Nogueira da Gama, Cynthia Braga da Cunha

  466-473

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• AIDS and pregnancy: meanings of risk and challenges for care

  Neide Emy Kurokawa e Silva, Augusta Thereza de Alvarenga, José Ricardo de C M Ayres

  474-481

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• Risk factors for HIV infection among patients infected with hepatitis C virus

  Anita Campos Mendonça Silva, Antônio Alci Barone

  482-488

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• Body dissatisfaction in Brazilian schoolchildren: prevalence and associated factors

  Andréa Poyastro Pinheiro, Elsa Regina Justo Giugliani

  489-496

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• Relationship between body mass index and self-perception among university students

  Idalina Shiraishi Kakeshita, Sebastião de Sousa Almeida

  497-504

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• Parity of Ochlerotatus scapularis in laboratory and field conditions

  Juliana Telles de Deus, Iná Kakitani

  505-512

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Special Article

• Advances in the Brazilian norm for commercialization of infant foods

  Maria de Fátima Moura de Araújo, Marina Ferreira Rea, Karina Aragão Pinheiro, Bethsáida de Abreu Soares Schmitz

  513-520

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Commentary

• Regulations, conflicts and ethics of medical research in developing countries

  Marta Maciel Lyra Cabral, Haiana Charifker Schindler, Frederico Guilherme Coutinho Abath

  521-527

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• Socioanthropological notes on community and health

  Mara H de Andréa Gomes

  528-536

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• Current epidemiological status of visceral leishmaniasis in Northeastern Brazil

  Filipe Dantas-Torres

  537-541

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Brief Communications

• Prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus in Southern Brazil: a population-based study

  Juvenal Soares Dias da Costa, Maria Teresa Anselmo Olinto, Maria Cecília Formoso Assunção, Denise Petrucci Gigante, Silvia Macedo, Ana Maria Baptista Menezes

  542-545

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Letters to the editor

• Interpretation of the tuberculin test

  Antonio Ruffino-Netto

  546-547

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Technical Institutional Reports

• From political to institutional action: research priorities in the Ministry of Health

  548-552

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• Impact of accidents and violence on health costs

  553-556

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• Tuberculosis among incarcerated population

  557-557

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• Erratum

  558-558

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