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The Federal University of Ceará (UFC) will receive the I Seminar Development, Inequality and International Cooperation in Health, with the panel Health Inequalities and the Health Agent, on December 19th, from 2:30 pm, in the Auditorium of the Rectory of UFC, in Fortaleza, Ceará. During the event, the book "The…
Health is a concept that belongs to the tradition of the metaphysical thought. From Aristotle to Nietzsche, who reflected on what the beings are and on what the man has to be especial as compared to other ones, thought also what means health as well. The concepts of health and…
Source: CCS/Fiocruz. On October 24th and 25th, in partnership with the Pan American Health Organization (Paho/WHO), the Support to Research and Public Policies on Alcohol, Crack and other Drugs Institutional Programme (PACD) at Fiocruz will promote the International Seminar on Alcohol, Health and Society. The meeting will address the epidemiological,…
An unprecedented research through all the resolutions of the United Nations (UN) General Assemblie, of the Economic and Social Council (Ecosoc/UN) and the World Health Organization (WHO), between 2005 and 2016, drew an international regulatory panorama of health risk factors related to tobacco, alcohol, ultraprocessed food and agrochemicals. The study…
The Advisor to Fiocruz Brasilia, José Agenor Álvares, former Director of the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) and former Minister of Health, was emphatic to blame the Federal Supreme Court (STF) as one of the instances able to solve a small part of the war between the powerful interests of…
Paho/WHO Several countries of the Americas have made progress in the implementation of tobacco control policies in order to reduce the suffering and casualties as a result of its use. However, there is still much to be done to prevent the spread of the product, which kills about a million…
Latin was the vocabulary for the qualified as well as in literature before twelfth century. Infact, it'd a effect on the ancient planet. This was probable due to rise and development of Roman Empire until the kingdom in AD'S slip. Because the empire succeeded thus did the vocabulary. Nonetheless, the…
Anvisa has three open public consultations about the banning of pesticides. The three substances are: Lactofem: Herbicide used on soybeans, and present in products of the companies Bayer (Cobra), UPL (Coral), Nufarm (Drible) and Adama (Naja). Considered carcinogenic, the product is banned in the European Union. Tiram: Fungicide authorized for…
Third report in the series “Pesticides: the story behind the numbers”, held by the Institute of Communication and Scientific and Technological Information in Health (Icict/Fiocruz), brings as featured the lecture recorded during the Seminar of Human Capabilities, Development and Public Policies, promoted by Nethis. In her study of agrochemicals, the researcher…
The researcher of the Center for the Study of Workers ' Health and Human Ecology (Cesteh) of the National School of Public Health Sergio Arouca (Ensp/Fiocruz) Karen Friedrich explains that there is a requirement of irrefutable proof of the presence of a pesticide in clinical tests on blood or urine.…
