Published in Am J Public Health on November 13, 2008
Impact of primary health care on mortality from heart and cerebrovascular diseases in Brazil: a nationwide analysis of longitudinal data. BMJ (2014) 2.34
Narrowing socioeconomic inequality in child stunting: the Brazilian experience, 1974-2007. Bull World Health Organ (2009) 2.19
Effect of 10-valent pneumococcal vaccine on pneumonia among children, Brazil. Emerg Infect Dis (2013) 1.41
Impact of the Family Health Program on the quality of vital information and reduction of child unattended deaths in Brazil: an ecological longitudinal study. BMC Public Health (2010) 1.27
Recent trends in maternal, newborn, and child health in Brazil: progress toward Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5. Am J Public Health (2010) 1.24
Public health impacts of ecosystem change in the Brazilian Amazon. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2015) 1.23
Integrating national community-based health worker programmes into health systems: a systematic review identifying lessons learned from low-and middle-income countries. BMC Public Health (2014) 1.17
The combined effects of the expansion of primary health care and conditional cash transfers on infant mortality in Brazil, 1998-2010. Am J Public Health (2013) 1.15
The influence of primary care and hospital supply on ambulatory care-sensitive hospitalizations among adults in Brazil, 1999-2007. Am J Public Health (2011) 1.08
Monitoring and evaluating progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Brazil. PLoS Med (2014) 1.07
The combined effects of the expansion of primary health care and conditional cash transfers on infant mortality in Brazil, 1998-2010. Am J Public Health (2015) 1.05
Sub-national assessment of inequality trends in neonatal and child mortality in Brazil. Int J Equity Health (2010) 1.01
What interventions are effective on reducing inequalities in maternal and child health in low- and middle-income settings? A systematic review. BMC Public Health (2014) 0.98
Prevalence and correlates of functional status in an older community--representative sample in Brazil. J Aging Health (2010) 0.97
Inadequate prenatal care utilization and associated factors in São Luís, Brazil. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2014) 0.94
Effect of the Brazilian conditional cash transfer and primary health care programs on the new case detection rate of leprosy. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2014) 0.86
[Correcting vital information: estimating infant mortality, Brazil, 2000-2009]. Rev Saude Publica (2013) 0.86
Primary Care Dentistry in Brazil: From Prevention to Comprehensive Care. J Ambul Care Manage (2017) 0.84
Individual and contextual factors related to dental caries in underprivileged Brazilian adolescents. BMC Oral Health (2015) 0.82
The Brazilian Family Health Program and secondary stroke and myocardial infarction prevention: a 6-year cohort study. Am J Public Health (2012) 0.81
Disaggregating health inequalities within Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2002-2010, by applying an urban health inequality index. Cad Saude Publica (2015) 0.78
Inequalities in health: living conditions and infant mortality in Northeastern Brazil. Rev Saude Publica (2015) 0.78
Factors Associated with Providers' Perceptions of Mental Health Care in Santa Luzia's Family Health Strategy, Brazil. Int J Environ Res Public Health (2015) 0.77
User satisfaction with the Family Health Program in Vespasiano, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Rev Panam Salud Publica (2012) 0.77
Correction of vital statistics based on a proactive search of deaths and live births: evidence from a study of the North and Northeast regions of Brazil. Popul Health Metr (2014) 0.77
A study of family health problems in Iran from the stakeholders' perspective. J Educ Health Promot (2012) 0.75
Community health workers programme in Luanda, Angola: an evaluation of the implementation process. Hum Resour Health (2014) 0.75
Social and economic determinants of pediatric health inequalities: the model of chronic kidney disease. Pediatr Res (2015) 0.75
Family health strategy and equity in prenatal care: a population based cross-sectional study in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Int J Equity Health (2017) 0.75
The effect of the Family Health Strategy on usual source of care in Brazil: data from the 2013 National Health Survey (PNS 2013). Int J Equity Health (2016) 0.75
Young women and their reproductive health needs in a family practice setting: factors influencing care seeking in Vitoria, Brazil. Fam Pract (2009) 0.75
Sickness absence among health workers in belo horizonte, brazil. J Occup Health (2016) 0.75
Professional and community satisfaction with the Brazilian family health strategy. Rev Saude Publica (2013) 0.75
The impact of the Brazilian family health on selected primary care sensitive conditions: A systematic review. PLoS One (2017) 0.75
Delivery of Community-Based Care Through Inter-professional Teams in Brazil's Unified Health System (UHS): Comparing Perceptions Across Community Health Agents (CHAs), Nurses and Physicians. J Community Health (2017) 0.75
An international surgical collaboration: humanitarian surgery in Brazil. Hernia (2015) 0.75
How many child deaths can we prevent this year? Lancet (2003) 30.39
Where and why are 10 million children dying every year? Lancet (2003) 28.59
Explaining trends in inequities: evidence from Brazilian child health studies. Lancet (2000) 7.04
The decline in child mortality: a reappraisal. Bull World Health Organ (2000) 3.46
Factors associated with trends in infant and child mortality in developing countries during the 1990s. Bull World Health Organ (2000) 2.36
Evaluation of the impact of the Family Health Program on infant mortality in Brazil, 1990-2002. J Epidemiol Community Health (2006) 2.34
Going to scale with community-based primary care: an analysis of the family health program and infant mortality in Brazil, 1999-2004. Soc Sci Med (2007) 2.13
[Infant mortality estimation in Brazil: what do Ministry of Health data on deaths and live births say?]. Cad Saude Publica (2002) 1.33
Infant mortality due to perinatal causes in Brazil: trends, regional patterns and possible interventions. Sao Paulo Med J (2001) 1.20
Real epidemiologists don't do ecological studies? Int J Epidemiol (2005) 1.10
Three decades of primary health care: reviewing the past and defining the future. Bull World Health Organ (2008) 1.04
[Infant mortality in Brazil during recent periods of economic crisis]. Rev Saude Publica (2003) 0.90
The Brazilian health informatics and information policy: building the consensus. Stud Health Technol Inform (2004) 0.88
Health conditions and health-policy innovations in Brazil: the way forward. Lancet (2011) 4.66
International study of temperature, heat and urban mortality: the 'ISOTHURM' project. Int J Epidemiol (2008) 4.13
Effect of a conditional cash transfer programme on childhood mortality: a nationwide analysis of Brazilian municipalities. Lancet (2013) 2.70
Effect of BCG revaccination on incidence of tuberculosis in school-aged children in Brazil: the BCG-REVAC cluster-randomised trial. Lancet (2005) 2.38
Defining the research agenda to reduce the joint burden of disease from diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis. Trop Med Int Health (2010) 2.35
Recent diarrhoeal illness and risk of lower respiratory infections in children under the age of 5 years. Int J Epidemiol (2009) 2.22
Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of first BCG vaccination against tuberculosis in school-age children without previous tuberculin test (BCG-REVAC trial): a cluster-randomised trial. Lancet Infect Dis (2011) 2.08
Improving responsiveness of health systems to non-communicable diseases. Lancet (2013) 2.06
Diagnosis and management of dengue. BMJ (2009) 1.89
Risk factors for atopic and non-atopic asthma in a rural area of Ecuador. Thorax (2010) 1.85
Recent shift in age pattern of dengue hemorrhagic fever, Brazil. Emerg Infect Dis (2008) 1.77
A guide to modern statistical analysis of immunological data. BMC Immunol (2007) 1.66
Chronic intestinal helminth infections are associated with immune hyporesponsiveness and induction of a regulatory network. Infect Immun (2010) 1.65
Epidemiological methods in diarrhoea studies--an update. Int J Epidemiol (2011) 1.56
Risk factors for childhood diarrhea incidence: dynamic analysis of a longitudinal study. Epidemiology (2006) 1.51
Design of the leprosy component of the Brazilian BCG revaccination trial for assessing BCG effectiveness against leprosy in school children. Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis (2004) 1.48
Estimating the longitudinal prevalence of diarrhea and other episodic diseases: continuous versus intermittent surveillance. Epidemiology (2007) 1.41
Risk factors for asthma and allergy associated with urban migration: background and methodology of a cross-sectional study in Afro-Ecuadorian school children in Northeastern Ecuador (Esmeraldas-SCAALA Study). BMC Pulm Med (2006) 1.28
Impact of the Family Health Program on the quality of vital information and reduction of child unattended deaths in Brazil: an ecological longitudinal study. BMC Public Health (2010) 1.27
Spread pattern of the first dengue epidemic in the city of Salvador, Brazil. BMC Public Health (2008) 1.21
Impact of long-term treatment with ivermectin on the prevalence and intensity of soil-transmitted helminth infections. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2008) 1.19
Reducing childhood mortality from diarrhea and lower respiratory tract infections in Brazil. Pediatrics (2010) 1.17
Efficacy, effectiveness, and the evaluation of public health interventions. J Epidemiol Community Health (2005) 1.17
Increased risk of tuberculosis with human T-lymphotropic virus-1 infection: a case-control study. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2005) 1.12
Childhood diarrhoea symptoms, management and duration: observations from a longitudinal community study. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg (2005) 1.12
Impact of early life exposures to geohelminth infections on the development of vaccine immunity, allergic sensitization, and allergic inflammatory diseases in children living in tropical Ecuador: the ECUAVIDA birth cohort study. BMC Infect Dis (2011) 1.11
[Tuberculosis in Salvador, Brazil: costs to health system and families]. Rev Saude Publica (2005) 1.10
Urbanisation is associated with prevalence of childhood asthma in diverse, small rural communities in Ecuador. Thorax (2011) 1.08
Impact of a city-wide sanitation intervention in a large urban centre on social, environmental and behavioural determinants of childhood diarrhoea: analysis of two cohort studies. Int J Epidemiol (2008) 1.06
Determinants of cognitive function in childhood: a cohort study in a middle income context. BMC Public Health (2008) 1.05
A hierarchical model for studying risk factors for childhood diarrhoea: a case-control study in a middle-income country. Int J Epidemiol (2008) 1.03
Weight-for-age z-score as a proxy marker for diarrhoea in epidemiological studies. J Epidemiol Community Health (2009) 1.02
Reductions in the prevalence and incidence of geohelminth infections following a city-wide sanitation program in a Brazilian Urban Centre. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2010) 1.02
Giardia duodenalis infection: risk factors for children living in sub-standard settlements in Brazil. Cad Saude Publica (2007) 0.98
Health research in developing countries. BMJ (2009) 0.97
[Family environment and child's cognitive development: an epidemiological approach]. Rev Saude Publica (2005) 0.95
Sampling strategies to measure the prevalence of common recurrent infections in longitudinal studies. Emerg Themes Epidemiol (2010) 0.94
The association between postmenopausal osteoporosis and periodontal disease. J Periodontol (2007) 0.92
Dengue fever: a call for local, national, and international action. Lancet (2008) 0.92
[The Family Health Program in Brazil and the adequacy of its coverage indicator]. Cad Saude Publica (2008) 0.92
BCG revaccination does not protect against leprosy in the Brazilian Amazon: a cluster randomised trial. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2008) 0.91
Duration of exclusive breastfeeding in a Brazilian population: new determinants in a cohort study. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2014) 0.90
Influence of poverty and infection on asthma in Latin America. Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol (2012) 0.89
Hygiene, atopy and wheeze-eczema-rhinitis symptoms in schoolchildren from urban and rural Ecuador. Thorax (2013) 0.88
Minor psychiatric disorders in mothers and asthma in children. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol (2008) 0.86
Towards a comprehensive global approach to prevention and control of NCDs. Global Health (2014) 0.86
Validation of epidemiological tools for eczema diagnosis in Brazilian children: the ISAAC's and UK Working Party's criteria. BMC Dermatol (2010) 0.86
Childhood anemia prevalence and associated factors in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Cad Saude Publica (2004) 0.85
A study on the immunological basis of the dissociation between type I-hypersensitivity skin reactions to Blomia tropicalis antigens and serum anti-B. tropicalis IgE antibodies. BMC Immunol (2011) 0.84
[BCG vaccine against tuberculosis: its protective effect and vaccination policies]. Rev Saude Publica (2007) 0.83
Recent positive developments in the Brazilian health system. Am J Public Health (2008) 0.83
Behavior problems and prevalence of asthma symptoms among Brazilian children. J Psychosom Res (2011) 0.82
JECH: new editorial directions. J Epidemiol Community Health (2009) 0.82
Factors associated with rotavirus diarrhoea in children living in a socially diverse urban centre in Brazil. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg (2012) 0.81
Demand for sanitation in Salvador, Brazil: a hybrid choice approach. Soc Sci Med (2011) 0.81
Neonatal BCG protection against leprosy: a study in Manaus, Brazilian Amazon. Lepr Rev (2004) 0.80
SNP typing reveals similarity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis genetic diversity between Portugal and Northeast Brazil. Infect Genet Evol (2013) 0.80
[Social inequalities in spatial distribution of hospital admissions due to respiratory diseases]. Cad Saude Publica (2013) 0.79
Pattern of asthma medication use among children from a large urban center in Brazil. Eur J Clin Pharmacol (2011) 0.78
Prevention of childhood obesity: issues on the evaluation of interventions. J Epidemiol Community Health (2010) 0.78
Trends in hospitalizations for respiratory diseases in Salvador, Bahia State, Brazil, 1998-2009. Cad Saude Publica (2012) 0.77
Social determinants of childhood asthma symptoms: an ecological study in urban Latin America. J Community Health (2014) 0.77
Determinants of early cognitive development: hierarchical analysis of a longitudinal study. Cad Saude Publica (2008) 0.76
Reduced asthma morbidity in endemic areas for helminth infections: a longitudinal ecological study in Brazil. J Asthma (2014) 0.76
The log-Burr XII regression model for grouped survival data. J Biopharm Stat (2012) 0.75
Research in public health in Brazil. Cad Saude Publica (2003) 0.75
Epidemiologists working together with anthropologists: lessons from a study to evaluate the epidemiological impact of a city-wide sanitation program. Cad Saude Publica (2013) 0.75
[Determinants of linear growth retardation in Brazilian preschool children: a multilevel approach]. Cad Saude Publica (2007) 0.75
Environmental indicators of intra-urban hetererogeneity. Cad Saude Publica (2013) 0.75