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Objective To measure the correlation of race/ethnicity in Brazil with coverage of prenatal consultations, taking into account the races: white, brown and black. Materials and Methods This is an ecological descriptive study whose premise is that there is a correlation between the ethnic composition of population and quantitative coverage of antenatal care of pregnant women in the population of Brazil. The data were analysed using the coefficient of determination (R 2 ) and a linear trendline for the correlation. We estimated the data of the population white, black and brown, and eventually, joining the black and mulatto population, all in proportion. Results The outcome of the graphs showed a positive correlation between coverage of adequate prenatal and increase the proportion of white population and a similar behaviour with respect to blacks. However, the mixed population to be assessed in that aspect, showed a negative correlation. By joining the black and brown has a negative correlation, however. Conclusion It was clear how far in Brazil there are racial and socioeconomic inequalities, which play an important role in the right of access to population health. Introduction As reported by Globocan, in 2008, per 100 000 females: (I) in Pakistan, the estimates for cervical cancer were: (i) incidence 19.5 (11 688 cases) and (ii) mortality 12.9 (7311 deaths); and (II) in very high incidence regions as sub-saharan Africa, the annual agestandardised incidence rate was up to 56 and mortality was 41. Pakistan does not have a Pap smear cervical cancer screening program. The cervical Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) prevalence in women with normal cytology has been reported to be as follows: globally 11.7%; sub-saharan Africa 24%; Eastern Europe 21.4%; and Latin America 16%. Worldwide, the five most common HPV types were: 16, 18, 52, 31, and 58. Method A review was conducted to estimate the prevalence of HPV in cervical tissues obtained from neoplastic and non-neoplastic samples and indications for vaccination of females against HPV infection in Pakistan. Results Recent studies from Pakistan have shown the HPV 16/18 prevalence in the general population to be about 2.8% (N¼899 married women, 15e59 years); few other studies have shown the HPV prevalence in cervical cancer to be 18%e98% (N¼50e91). Conclusion Information about the prevalence of HPV infection in neoplastic and non-neoplastic samples is sparse. Pakistan does not have a cervical cancer screening program either. More epidemiologic studies are needed to determine if ours is a low-vs a high-HPVprevalence setting and to identify cervical cancer risk factors, before vehemently advocating the adoption of preventive measures against HPV infection using the HPV vaccine, as has been initiated in the country. Introduction It is estimated that in Brazil there are about 665 000 telemarketers, following a strong international requirement, which has built thousands of workers in recent years. The workers main complaints relate to unfavourable working conditions including strict d...

Introduction The objective of this study was to assess quality of life (QoL) among adults in Salvador-Bahia, Brazil, and identify potentials factors related to its domains. Methods Cross-sectional study in 501 adults between 35 and 59 years, living in five different areas covered by the Community Health Agents Program/Family Health Strategy (CHAP/FHS), from July to October, 2008. Data were collected through interview using a questionnaire including social-economic variables and oral health status and the WHO Quality of Life questionnaire (WHOQOL-Bref) validated in Brazilian population to measured QoL. Descriptive and exploratory analyses were carried out and differences in scores were tested by ManneWhitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests. Results Mean scores of WHOQOL-Bref were 58.5619.8 and 59.0627.3 to the general issues of quality of life and satisfaction with health, respectively. The social relationships domain had the highest mean scores (69.3618.4) and the environment domain had the lowest mean scores (49.8614.5). The WHOQOL-Bref domains showed that QoL is perceived better by male, having the highest mean scores (71.8612.8) on the psychological domain and the lowest mean scores (53.8613.1) on the environmental domain. Variables predicted for QoL were: years of education, monthly individual income, treated water at home and mucosal damage. Conclusions Evaluate QoL is very important for adult and it showed associated with current social-economic conditions and with oral health status. WHOQoL-Bref proved to be an efficient tool and useful for a better evaluation approach of the subjective aspects of QoL.

potentials factors related to tooth loss and loss of periodontal attachment. Methods Cross-sectional study in 501 adults between 35 and 59 years, living in five different areas covered by the Community Health Agents Program/Family Health Strategy (CHAP/FHS), from July to October 2008. The oral health status information was obtained using indexes and criteria according Examiner's Manual SB Brazil project (2001). Descriptive and exploratory analyses were carried out and the differences in scores were tested by Pearson's c 2. Results Near 50.0% of adults had tooth loss (<20 functional teeth present) and 17.7% had loss of periodontal attachment $6 mm. Female had a greater tooth loss (53.0%) and male had larger loss of periodontal attachment $6 mm (32.2%). The adults with more than 45 years presented bigger tooth loss (67.2%) as much as periodontal attachment $6 mm (24.3%). Among the factors associated with tooth loss, can be pointed out no monthly individual income, low educational level and attending dentist when there is need (p<0.001), while only low educational level was associated with loss of periodontal attachment $6 mm (p<0.001). Conclusions The oral health status of adults was poor, which makes it one of the priorities of the primary care. Low socioeconomic status is commonly related to this condition, suggesting that improving the socioeconomic determinants reflect improvements in oral health.

The intake was adjusted for within-person variability by the method proposed by Iowa State University, using the software PC-SIDE, and energy-adjusted for the residual method. The validity for 23 nutrients was assessed by Spearman correlation coefficient and weighted k. Intra-class correlation coefficient and weighted k was used to reproducibility assessment. Results In the validation, the Spearman correlation coefficients ranged from 0.25 (riboflavin) to 0.57 (phosphorus) of which eight nutrients showed acceptable correlation (>0.4). In the reproducibility analysis, the intra-class correlation coefficients ranged from 0.18 (vitamin C) to 0.57 (niacin), of which five nutrients showed acceptable correlation. The weighted k ranged from 0.18 (sodium) to 0.67 (riboflavin) to reproducibility and from 0.19 (polyunsatured fat) to 0.56 (calcium) to validation. Conclusion The results support the use of this instrument to assess food intake in epidemiological studies conducted in São Paulo, Brazil. Background Several low-and middle-income countries, lack wellfunctioning population-based cancer registry. We evaluated the completeness of a pathology based cancer registry in Iran. We further studies evolutionary progress of the cancer registries worldwide. Methods We evaluated consistency of the incidence rates reported by national pathology-based cancer registry in Iran from 2004 to 2007. We further compared the incidence rates of the pathology-and population-based registries in a few regions, where both data were available. In addition, we studied the increasing trend in the number of population-based cancer registries worldwide, using the reports published in the Volumes IeIX of the monograph "Cancer in Five Continents." Results The Iranian pathology-based cancer registry, reports only about 60e70% of cancers. The underestimates were greater in cancers with poor-prognosis including lung, stomach, and oesophageal cancers. Almost four regional cancer registries were established every 10 years since 1960. However, the USA was an exception, where the number of cancer registries increased from 14 in 1998 to 44 regional registries in 2002, due to the advance infrastructure in the health informatics and ambitious initiatives by the Centers for Disease Control in the USA. Conclusions Pathology based cancer registry cannot provide reliable estimate for the cancer incidence rates, particularly in cancers with a poor prognosis. Developing countries should establish and support regional registries and expand their coverage gradually. Given the recent advances in the health informatics, small efforts will enhance the coverage of cancer registries worldwide, particularly in the less than middle income countries. SP3-79