Vol. 37 No. 1 (2003)

Editor Note

• Section of brief communications

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Editorial

• Sex differences in mortality

  Oswaldo Paulo Forattini

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Original Articles

• Prevalence and risk factors for smoking among adolescents

  Maura C Malcon, Ana Maria B Menezes, Moema Chatkin

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• Sexual violence and its prevalence among adolescents, Brazil

  Guilherme Vanoni Polanczyk, Maria Lucrécia Zavaschi, Silvia Benetti, Raquel Zenker, Patrícia Wainberg Gammerman

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• Experiencing motherhood in early adolescence

  Sílvia Reis dos Santos, Néia Schor

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• Hypercholesterolemia and its risk factors among schoolchildren

  Cleunice Luzia Smania Coronelli, Erly Catarina de Moura

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• Sexuality in Down syndrome individuals

  Talita Borges Castelão, Márcio Ruiz Schiavo, Pedro Jurberg

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• Determinant factors of functional status among the elderly

  Tereza Etsuko da Costa Rosa, Maria Helena D'Aquino Benício, Maria do Rosário Dias de Oliveira Latorre, Luiz Roberto Ramos

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• Chagas' disease in the southern coastal region of Brazil

  Maria Esther de Carvalho, Rubens Antonio da Silva, José Maria Soares Barata, Maria de Fátima Domingos, Ricardo Mário de Carvalho Ciaravolo, Fabiana Zacharias

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• Chagas' disease epidemiology in the province of General Paz, Argentina

  Elena B Oscherov, María E Bar, Miryam P Damborsky, Alicia MF Milano, Gilberto Avalos, Marcelo A Borda

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• Housemaids and non-fatal occupational injuries

  Vilma S Santana, Andréa M de Amorim, Roberval Oliveira, Shirlei Xavier, Jorge Iriart, Liliane Belitardo

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• Reported morbidity and use of health services by working women, Brazil

  Keila R O Gomes, Ana Cristina d'A Tanaka

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• Household insecticides: pattern of use according to per capita income

  Cristiane Diel, Luiz Augusto Facchini, Marinel Mór Dall'Agnol

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• Probabilistic linkage in household survey on hospital care usage

  Cláudia Medina Coeli, Régis Blais, Maria do Carmo Esteves da Costa, Liz Maria de Almeida

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• Cervical cancer screening: knowledge of Pap smear benefits and utilization in Mexico

  José A Aguilar-Pérez, Ahidée Gpe Leyva-López, David Angulo-Nájera, Antonio Salinas, Eduardo C Lazcano-Ponce

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Review

• Chronic Chagas' disease: from xenodiagnosis and hemoculture to polymerase chain reaction

  Ana Angélica Bulcão Portela-Lindoso, Maria Aparecida Shikanai-Yasuda

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• Chronic occupational metallic mercurialism

  Marcília de Araújo Medrado Faria

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