Strategies that incentivize family members and friends to provide social support to the elderly for physical activity focusing on joint practice must be encouraged.
This study aimed to describe the simultaneity of risk factors for chronic non-communicable diseases among the elderly (≤ 60 years) in a city in Southern Brazil. This was a cross-sectional, population-based study of 1,451 elderly in 2013. Cluster analysis was applied to selected risk factors (smoking, alcohol consumption, excess weight, and physical inactivity). Logistic regression was used to assess the association between simultaneity of risk factors and socio-demographic variables. The most frequent cluster in men (18.1%) and women (30.7%) was physical inactivity + excess weight. The cluster alcohol consumption + excess weight exceeded the expected level in men (O/E = 1.27; 95%CI: 1.01; 1.59) and women (O/E = 1.72; 95%CI: 1.35; 2.20). The presence of two or more risk factors in the elderly population (88.1%) points to the need for specific interventions for this population to fight risk factors simultaneously rather than separately.
Resumo São Paulo é uma megalópole com um padrão de ocupação marcado pelo protagonismo do automóvel, mas, recentemente, a agenda de mobilidade urbana ganhou novos significados e mobilizou novos atores. A partir da perspectiva teórica pós-positivista e das teorias de difusão de políticas públicas, buscou-se discutir como a ideia da política cicloviária se originou, se adaptou e enfrentou resistências no contexto político e social do município de São Paulo no governo Fernando Haddad (Partido dos Trabalhadores). Como resultado de pesquisa destacam-se, de um lado, o papel da comunidade política e epistêmica dos cicloativistas e o papel empreendedor do prefeito Haddad como elementos de apoio político. Em contraste, a imprensa paulistana desempenhou papel opositor à implementação da política, agindo como ator político no subsistema da política cicloviária, por meio do ataque sistemático à imagem das infraestruturas implantadas para as bicicletas.
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