Eliseu Alves Waldman

TL;DR: Dental caries experience is prone to sociodemographic and geographic inequalities and the monitoring of contrasts in dental health outcomes is relevant for programming socially appropriate interventions aimed both at overall improvements and at the targeting of resources for groups of population presenting higher levels of needs.

TL;DR: Overall, strengthening the contacts and relationships between the health care services and mothers with several children and families with low educational level/low socioeconomic status appear to be an important action to improve vaccination coverage.

TL;DR: RT-PCR using CSF was highly sensitive and specific and substantially added to measures of meningitis disease burden when incorporated into routine public health surveillance in Brazil.

TL;DR: The overall mortality rate among children aged 12-60 months dropped by almost 30% during the study period, and Mortality rates at the area level clearly demonstrated inequity in the city's health profile.

TL;DR: Although the influx of foreigners and national migrants to the city diminished after the 1980s, immigration rates have been significantly correlated with TB mortality, suggesting greater vulnerability of these population segments to the disease.