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Despite the relevance of kidney transplantation, the supply of organs and the process for inclusion in its waiting list still represent obstacles. This study aimed to analyze the performance of dialysis centers in referring patients for pre-kidney transplant evaluation and inclusion in the waiting list of incident dialysis patients from 2015 to 2019 in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. This retrospective cohort study sampled 23,297 records of patients who underwent dialysis therapy in public or philanthropic institutions or who had their treatment funded by the Brazilian Unified National Health System in private clinics. Survival analysis by the Kaplan-Meier method was used to evaluate pre-kidney transplant referral. The strength of the association between the exposure variables and the occurrence of inclusion on the list were analyzed by Cox regression models. Only 14.8% of the sample was enrolled on the pre-kidney transplant waiting list. The cumulative probability of enrollment totaled 1.2% in 180 days and 3.3% in one year from 2016 to 2019. Northern Minas Gerais had the highest cumulative probability of enrollment on the waiting list, whereas its South, the lowest. Adult individuals were more likely to be enrolled than older adults, and enrollment was more likely in 2016 than in 2018 and 2019. Although Ordinance n. 389/2014 from the Brazilian Ministry of Health established the minimum percentage of eligible patients that must be included in the list, this study observed no positive repercussion on the accumulated probability of enrollment in dialysis incidents in subsequent years.

This study aimed to describe the profile and calculate the years of potential life lost (YPLL) due to liver diseases in Brazilian agricultural workers from 2017 to 2022. For this, we analyzed microdata available in the Brazilian Mortality Information System considering the underlying cause of death with codes K70-K77 (International Classsification of Disease, 10th revision - ICD-10) as the outcome of interest. Workers' profile was characterized according to sociodemographic variables and Brazilian regions, forming a comparison group with all other Brazilian workers aged from 18-69 years who died in the same period and from the same underlying cause. Calculations of proportional mortality, YPLL rates, and YPLL rate ratios were applied. In the studied period, 15,362 deaths due to liver diseases occurred in Brazilian agricultural workers, with an average age at death of 51.3 years (±10.7), concentrated in K70 - alcoholic liver disease (53.8%). A higher proportional mortality occurred in men (86.2%), Mixed individuals (61.1%), up to age 49 years (40.9%), with ≤ 7 years of education level (52.4%), and residence in the Northeast (56.9%). The sum of YPLL totaled 382,869 years among agricultural workers, with YPLL rate of 4,527 years per 100,000 workers and a YPLL rate ratio 1.45 times higher than the national average. The concentration of deaths due to K70 raises concern due to the potential chronic exposure to alcoholic beverages. These results highlight the early causes of deaths from liver diseases among agricultural workers, especially those in Northeast Brazil and mixed.

This study analyzes the social representations of healthcare for deaf individuals by healthcare professionals. To this end, a qualitative study was conducted, applying the Theory of Social Representations in its procedural approach. In-depth semistructured interviews were conducted with nurses, nursing technicians, physical therapists, and physicians from a health facility in Porto Velho, Rondônia State, Brazil. The data produced were subjected to lexical analysis using the Alceste software. The results indicate that the representations of care for deaf individuals in healthcare take place through three dimensions: the symbolic dimension, associated with the interdiction of communication; the affective dimension, manifested via suffering, anguish, and fear in assisting deaf patients; and the attitudinal dimension, in which professionals employed strategies aimed at establishing communication to provide care.

This study aimed to identify the competencies required by primary health care managers for the effective performance of their functions. A systematic review was conducted according to PRISMA, in the databases PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and CINAHL, up to May 2023, in the last 10 years. The inclusion criteria were quantitative, qualitative, or mixed studies that evaluated the competencies required for primary health care managers and published in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. Methodological quality was assessed using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool. This article identified 171 studies, including six to the analysis. The importance of leadership, teamwork, and communication was highlighted. Furthermore, the need for disciplinary training in the health area, knowledge in administration, and use of management indicators, as well as an autonomous and flexible attitude to challenges were highlighted. The evaluation of methodological quality showed an overall good performance, except for some studies that do not report sufficient information to determine sample representativeness. Primary health care managers must possess specific competencies to effectively perform their roles, given the relevance of primary care in each country's health system. This study provides a general framework of the required competencies for managerial responsibilities in this area. However, it is necessary to consider the particularities and local contexts of each center to develop managerial profiles adapted to their specific needs.

This study aims to examine the prevalence of abdominal obesity-dynapenia phenotype, identified by the presence of abdominal obesity and dynapenia, and understand its associated factors with a representative sample of the Brazilian population. Data were collected from the baseline of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSI-Brasil) 2015-2016. Abdominal obesity was determined by a waist-to-height ratio ≥ 0.55cm, while dynapenia was identified by evidence of low handgrip strength assessed via dynamometry, according to cutoff points proposed for the Brazilian population. The dependent variable was the coexistence of both conditions (abdominal obesity and dynapenia), and its association with independent variables (sociodemographic characteristics, behavior and health conditions, chronic diseases, and place of residence by Brazilian region) was analyzed using Poisson regression to obtain crude and adjusted prevalence ratios by sex, age, and education level. The prevalence of isolated abdominal obesity was 57.8%, isolated dynapenia was 5.7%, and abdominal obesity-dynapenia was 12.3%. In the adjusted model, significant associations were found with smoking (0.7; 95%CI: 0.5-0.9), alcohol consumption (0.7; 95%CI: 0.5-0.9), physical activity (0.6; 95%CI: 0.5-0.8), poor self-rated health (1.7; 95%CI: 1.4-2.2), multimorbidity (1.3; 95%CI: 1.1-1.6), and regions of residence. These factors indicate key points for the development of prevention and treatment strategies for abdominal obesity associated with low muscle strength, and we suggest that methodologies discussed here for abdominal obesity diagnosis be used as a reliable and practical means to identify this condition in older adults.

Systematic social observation (SSO) is an objective method of measuring the neighborhood physical and social characteristics. This study aimed to build intraurban indicators using the SSO method and compare them between two slums and their surroundings in a Brazilian capital. The simple indicators were calculated using the ratio estimator method, and grouped into domains. The principal component analysis generated the composite indicators, with the number of components defined based on the percentages of the total variance explained, and subdomains created when two components represented the domain. Internal consistency was verified by Cronbach's alpha, and composite indicators were transformed into scales from 0 to 5. Comparisons between slums and surroundings were performed using the Mann-Whitney U test, considering a 5% significance level. We evaluated 373 street segments in 63 neighborhoods. For the streets, sidewalks, signage, and safety domains, higher medians were observed in the surrounding areas than in the slums. While for the domains of social interaction and problems in the neighborhood, the median was higher in the slums. The composite indicators have the potential to identify intraurban disparities within the city, and contribute to the implementation of urban transformations aimed at improving the residents' living and health conditions.

This study aimed to evaluate the overall excess mortality and COVID-19 mortality in the regions of Brazil, in 2020, by sex and age group. An ecological study was carried out to calculate the overall excess mortality, by sex and age group, using the expected number of deaths in a non-pandemic context and the deaths observed in 2020. Data on deaths were extracted from the Brazilian Mortality Information System, in addition to population data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. Excess mortality was calculated considering: the difference between the mortality rates observed in 2020 and the average of the rates from 2015 to 2019, standardized by age; and the difference between observed deaths obtained via a quasi-Poisson model and the deaths expected for 2020. In Brazil, the standardized overall mortality rate in 2020 was 590 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, with excess mortality of 44 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, while the mortality rate from COVID-19 was 79 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. The highest overall mortality rates were observed in the North and Northeast regions. The excess deaths estimated by the ratio between observed and expected deaths nationwide in 2020 was 16%; of which 17% were males, 16% were females, 7% were individuals from 0 to 59 years old, and 20% were individuals aged 60 years or older. These outcomes enabled a better understanding on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mortality in Brazil in 2020, indicating a more pronounced excess mortality in the North, Northeast and Central-West regions and among men older than 60 years.