This study uses epidemiological data to investigate socioeconomic proportions of distinctions raised by "racism" in Brazilian society. A population-based cross-sectional study was

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Physical activity may have a protective effect against abdominal obesity, an important risk factor for cardiometabolic diseases. Thus, the aim of this study was to examine the association between the practice of physical activities in adolescence and abdominal obesity in adulthood among women shift workers in Southern Brazil in 2011. This case-control study included 215 cases (waist circumference greater than or equal to 88 cm) and 326 controls. For both the case and control groups, participation in leisure-time physical activities was most frequent in adolescence and was significantly less in adulthood. After adjusting for potential confounding factors, women who participated in five or more physical activities in adolescence were 50 percent less likely to have abdominal obesity than women who participated in one activity or no physical activities (Odds Ratio = 0.50; 95% confidential interval: 0.27-0.93, p value = .029). Participation in various types of leisure-time physical activities in adolescence may protect against abdominal obesity in adulthood, even if the number of physical activities decreases over time. This finding demonstrated the importance of physical activity as well as the period of life in which these should be encouraged for the prevention of health disorders, such as abdominal obesity.

Resumo O artigo discute as diferentes configurações da assistência psiquiátrica no Paraná, dos primeiros anos à contemporaneidade, considerando suas especificidades e relações com as políticas nacionais. A assistência iniciou-se em 1903, com a inauguração do Hospício Nossa Senhora da Luz, uma instituição filantrópica. Somente em 1954 o primeiro hospital público, o Hospital Colônia Adauto Botelho, começou a funcionar. Na década de 1960, a partir de convênios entre o governo estadual e hospitais privados para a instalação de leitos no interior, o processo de assistência psiquiátrica foi acelerado, assumindo uma perspectiva de privatização. Tal estratégia ensejou a configuração atual dessa assistência no estado, na qual o hospital especializado viceja, a despeito da existência de outros equipamentos preconizados pelas leis da reforma psiquiátrica.

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