A research project involving eighty first-year medical students who observed the experiences of first-time patients admitted to a university hospital in South-eastern Brazil was undertaken during the first semester of 1989. The students conducted 260 interviews and followed the patients through from the time of admittance, observing the patients’ expectations, values and attitudes towards minor complaints. The objective of the experience was to open a forum for discussion about excessive specialization and inadequacies in the curriculum in preparing the future […]

For the purpose of characterizing the health of the population assisted by the Nursery Program (Programa Creche) at the three units financed by the city authorities of S.Paulo, Brazil, an enquiry was undertaken. A questionnaire consisting of both open and closed question concerning personal identification, personal antecedents, development and health was prepared and 133 of them were applied. Results indicated that children whose living conditions were unsatisfactory (humid and overcrowded housing) have presented respiratory infections and otitis in greater numbers. […]

An epidemiologic survey of dental caries was undertaken in the town of Paulínia, S. Paulo state, south-eastern Brazil, in 1994, for the purpose of comparing the present prevalence with that registered during the previous study of 1980. The children examined numbered 1,416, were of both sexes and aged 7-14. Ten dentists, preciously trained, used DMF.T and DMF.S dental caries indexes. A level of prevalence of dental caries 67.8% below that of 1980 was found. Futher, there had been an inversion […]