Vaccination is a health strategy with excellent effectiveness for disease prevention, but immunization errors can cause harm to both individual and collective health. This article analyzed 3,829 notifications of immunization errors in the state of Minas Gerais.
Maternal mortality is a public health problem and a serious violation of women’s human rights, due to the fact that most cases are preventable. Even though rates are higher in high-risk pregnancies, the study shows an increase in the hospital postpartum case fatality ratio among pregnant women at normal risk.
In Brazil, as at October 2022, 33,513 notified cases of monkeypox (MPX) had been recorded. Greater frequency was found among young people attributed with male sex at birth. The most frequent symptoms were: fever, adenomegaly, headache and skin rash. There was a high proportion of MPX among people living with HIV and other ISTs, as also happened in other countries.
In 2018, in the city of Porto Alegre, the AIDS mortality rate was five times higher than the national rate. Since 2007, there has been an AIDS-related increase in female mortality rates in the city, placing it among the Brazilian state capitals with the highest rates.
In celebration of the 30 years of Epidemiology and Health Services: journal of the Brazilian National Health System (RESS), an exhibition has been prepared at the Universidade de Brasília Faculty of Heath Sciences (FS/UnB) that explains the entire trajectory of the RESS, listing important milestones.
Epidemiology and Health Services: Journal of the Brazilian National Health System (Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde – Revista do SUS – RESS), a free of charge rolling volume scientific periodical, has achieved category A3 following the most recent assessment by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Capes), based on the four-year period from 2017 to 2022.
