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Scientific and technical production on Sustainable Development Goal 3 - Good Health and Well-Being
- Reduce maternal mortality
- Reduce avoidable death in newborns and children under the age of five
- End the transmission of communicable diseases such as HIV, malaria, Tb and neglected diseases
- End maternal deaths due to noncommunicable diseases
- Prevention and treatment of consumption of psychoactive substances
- Reduce deaths and the trauma caused by road accidents
- Universal access to health services related to reproductive and sexual health
- Achieve universal access to health
- Reduce the amount of deaths produced by dangerous chemicals and the pollution of the air, water and soil
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- Exposure of pediatric emergency patients to imaging exams, nowadays and in times of covid-19: an integrative reviewABSTRACT Objective: To analyze literature data about unnecessary exposure of pediatric emergency patients to ionizing agents from imaging examinations, nowadays and during times of COVID-19. Data sources: Between April and July 2020, articles were selected using the databases: Virtual Health Library, PubMed and Scientific Electronic Library Online. The following descriptors were used: [(pediatrics) AND (emergencies) […]
- Community structure of benthic invertebrates in the Allipén River basin, North Patagonia, Araucania region (38º S, Chile)Abstract One of the biological indicators most used to determine the health of a fluvial ecosystem are the benthic macroinvertebrates. The presence of recurrent species in a wide gradient of latitudes, dominates the biogeographic pattern of the benthic macroinvertebrates in Chilean fresh waters, nevertheless the knowledge on the communitarian ecology of these in the Chilean […]
- New records of the occurrence of Megaleporinus macrocephalus () (Characiformes, Anostomidae) from the basins of the Itapecuru and Mearim rivers in Maranhão, Northeastern BrazilAbstract The "piaussu", Megaleporinus macrocephalus is an anostomatid fish species native to the basin of the Paraguay River, in the Pantanal biome of western Brazil. However, this species has now been recorded in a number of other drainages, including those of the upper Paraná, Uruguay, Jacuí, Doce, Mucuri, and Paraíba do Sulrivers. This study presents […]
- First record of Epibiont ciliates (Ciliophora: Peritrichia) associated with Dero digitata Müller, 1773 (Oligochaeta: Naididae) in BrazilBraz. j. biol;82: e235989, 2022. graf