Mônica Da Silva-Nunes
Biographic Data
| ID | 2848355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mônica Da Silva-Nunes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mônica |
| FAMILY NAME | Da Silva-Nunes |
| SIGNATURE | DA SILVA-NUNES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Federal do Acre |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5078-9121 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Validity and Applicability of the Eating Motivation Survey (Tems) in a University Population in the Western Brazilian Amazon
This study aimed to test the factorial structure of the Eating Motivation Survey (TEMS) using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) in a sample of 632 university students from the Western Brazilian Amazon. A cross-sectional study was conducted between December 2022 and April 2023 with participants of both sexes, aged 18 or older. In addition to CFA, psychometric analyses were performed, and a Structural Equation Model was developed to examine the re…
Challenges and perspectives in analyzing health in the Brazilian Amazon: A Look at Population-Based Studies
Desafios e perspectivas na análise da saúde na Amazônia brasileira: Um Olhar Sobre Estudos De Base Populacional
Epidemiology, Biodiversity, and Technological Trajectories in the Brazilian Amazon: From Malaria to Covid-19
The Amazon biome is under severe threat due to increasing deforestation rates and loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services while sustaining a high burden of neglected tropical diseases. Approximately two thirds of this biome are located within Brazilian territory. There, socio-economic and environmental landscape transformations are linked to the regional agrarian economy dynamics, which has developed into six techno-productive trajectories (T…
Evolution of Socioeconomic Conditions and Its Relation to Spatial–Temporal Changes of Giardiasis and Helminthiasis in Amazonian Children
Stunting in children under five years old is still a health problem in the Western Brazilian Amazon: A population-based study in Assis Brasil, Acre, Brazil
Despite the process of nutritional transition in Brazil, in some places, such as the Amazon region, stunting is still an important public health problem. We identified the prevalence and factors associated with stunting in children under five years old residing in the urban area of Assis Brasil. A survey was conducted in which a questionnaire on socioeconomic, maternal and children’s conditions was applied, and height or length was measured. The …
Associação entre malária e anemia em área urbana de transmissão do Plasmodium: Mâncio Lima, Acre, Brasil
O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a prevalência de anemia atribuível à malária na população urbana residente no Município de Mâncio Lima, Acre, Brasil. Trata-se de um estudo de coorte não concorrente com 1.167 pessoas acompanhadas por três meses anteriores à data da entrevista mediante dados do SIVEP-Malária. Foram calculadas as medidas de frequência e a prevalência de anemia em pacientes com e sem histórico de malária recente, conforme as var…
Socioeconomic inequalities are still a barrier to full child vaccine coverage in the Brazilian Amazon: A cross-sectional study in Assis Brasil, Acre, Brazil
This study showed that vaccine coverage in the first twelve months of life in Assis Brasil is similar to other areas in the Amazon and it is below the coverage postulated by the Brazilian Ministry of Health. Low vaccine coverage was associated with socioeconomic inequities that still prevail in the Brazilian Amazon. Short and long-term strategies must be taken to update child vaccines and increase vaccine coverage in the Amazon
Nutritional status of children under 5 years of age in the Brazilian Western Amazon before and after the Interoceanic highway paving: A population-based study
Overweight increase within this undernutrition scenario reveals that the process of nutritional transition began in this Amazonian city only in the last decade, and therefore, it is delayed when compared to overweight in other parts of Brazil. Such nutritional transition in Assis Brasil may have been facilitated by the construction of the Interoceanic Highway
Anemia e deficiência de ferro em pré-escolares da Amazônia Ocidental brasileira: Prevalência E Fatores Associados
Estudo transversal de base populacional que investigou prevalênciasde anemia e fatores associados à anemia, anemia ferropriva e deficiência de ferro entre crianças de 6 a 60 meses da área urbana de dois municípios do Acre, Brasil (N = 624). Dosagens de hemoglobina sanguínea, ferritina e receptor solúvel de transferrina plasmáticas foram realizadas mediante sangue venoso. Condições sócio-econômicas, demográficas e de morbidade foram obtidas por qu…
Anemia and Iron Deficiency in School Children, Adolescents, and Adults: A Community-Based Study in Rural Amazonia
We investigated the prevalence and risk factors of anemia and iron deficiency in 398 rural Amazonians aged 5–90 years in Acre, Brazil. Anemia and iron deficiency were diagnosed in 16% and 19% of the population, respectively. Anemia was likely to have multiple causes; although nearly half of anemic school children and women had altered iron status indicators, only 19.7% of overall anemia was attributable to iron deficiency. Geo-helminth infection …
Prevalence and spatial distribution of intestinal parasitic infections in a rural Amazonian settlement, Acre State, Brazil
A population-based survey of the prevalence and spatial distribution of intestinal parasitism was carried out in an agricultural settlement in the Amazon Basin of Brazil (Granada, Acre State). More than half (53.4%) of the 429 stool specimens from subjects in all age groups, living in 113 households, had cysts, ova, or larvae of intestinal parasites. The most prevalent parasites were Giardia duodenalis (19.6%) and soil-transmitted helminths (12.7…
Child health and nutrition in the Western Brazilian Amazon: Population-based surveys in two counties in Acre State
The article presents prevalence rates for malnutrition, intestinal parasitic infections, anemia, and iron deficiency in under-five children in a population-based cross-sectional survey performed in the urban area of two counties in the Western Brazilian Amazon, Assis Brasil (n = 200) and Acrelandia (n = 477). Available data included: (a) weight and height measurements, standardized as z-scores using the 1977 NCHS reference population, (b) diagnos…
The Acre Project: The epidemiology of malaria and arthropod-borne virus infections in a rural Amazonian population
The authors describe the baseline malaria prevalence and arbovirus seroprevalence among 467 subjects in an ongoing cohort study in rural Amazonia. Most subjects (72.2%) reported one or more previous episodes of malaria, and 15.6% had been hospitalized for malaria, but only 3.6% of individuals five years or older had malaria parasites detected by microscopy (10 with Plasmodium vivax and 4 with P. falciparum). Antibodies to Alphavirus, Orthobunyavi…
Child health and nutrition in the Western Brazilian Amazon: Population-based surveys in two counties in Acre State
The article presents prevalence rates for malnutrition, intestinal parasitic infections, anemia, and iron deficiency in under-five children in a population-based cross-sectional survey performed in the urban area of two counties in the Western Brazilian Amazon, Assis Brasil (n = 200) and Acrelandia (n = 477). Available data included: (a) weight and height measurements, standardized as z-scores using the 1977 NCHS reference population, (b) diagnos…
Anemia e deficiência de ferro em pré-escolares da Amazônia Ocidental brasileira: Prevalência E Fatores Associados
Estudo transversal de base populacional que investigou prevalênciasde anemia e fatores associados à anemia, anemia ferropriva e deficiência de ferro entre crianças de 6 a 60 meses da área urbana de dois municípios do Acre, Brasil (N = 624). Dosagens de hemoglobina sanguínea, ferritina e receptor solúvel de transferrina plasmáticas foram realizadas mediante sangue venoso. Condições sócio-econômicas, demográficas e de morbidade foram obtidas por qu…
Anemia and Iron Deficiency in School Children, Adolescents, and Adults: A Community-Based Study in Rural Amazonia
We investigated the prevalence and risk factors of anemia and iron deficiency in 398 rural Amazonians aged 5–90 years in Acre, Brazil. Anemia and iron deficiency were diagnosed in 16% and 19% of the population, respectively. Anemia was likely to have multiple causes; although nearly half of anemic school children and women had altered iron status indicators, only 19.7% of overall anemia was attributable to iron deficiency. Geo-helminth infection …
Prevalence and spatial distribution of intestinal parasitic infections in a rural Amazonian settlement, Acre State, Brazil
A population-based survey of the prevalence and spatial distribution of intestinal parasitism was carried out in an agricultural settlement in the Amazon Basin of Brazil (Granada, Acre State). More than half (53.4%) of the 429 stool specimens from subjects in all age groups, living in 113 households, had cysts, ova, or larvae of intestinal parasites. The most prevalent parasites were Giardia duodenalis (19.6%) and soil-transmitted helminths (12.7…
The Acre Project: The epidemiology of malaria and arthropod-borne virus infections in a rural Amazonian population
The authors describe the baseline malaria prevalence and arbovirus seroprevalence among 467 subjects in an ongoing cohort study in rural Amazonia. Most subjects (72.2%) reported one or more previous episodes of malaria, and 15.6% had been hospitalized for malaria, but only 3.6% of individuals five years or older had malaria parasites detected by microscopy (10 with Plasmodium vivax and 4 with P. falciparum). Antibodies to Alphavirus, Orthobunyavi…
The Acre Project: The epidemiology of malaria and arthropod-borne virus infections in a rural Amazonian population
The authors describe the baseline malaria prevalence and arbovirus seroprevalence among 467 subjects in an ongoing cohort study in rural Amazonia. Most subjects (72.2%) reported one or more previous episodes of malaria, and 15.6% had been hospitalized for malaria, but only 3.6% of individuals five years or older had malaria parasites detected by microscopy (10 with Plasmodium vivax and 4 with P. falciparum). Antibodies to Alphavirus, Orthobunyavi…
Anemia and Iron Deficiency in School Children, Adolescents, and Adults: A Community-Based Study in Rural Amazonia
We investigated the prevalence and risk factors of anemia and iron deficiency in 398 rural Amazonians aged 5–90 years in Acre, Brazil. Anemia and iron deficiency were diagnosed in 16% and 19% of the population, respectively. Anemia was likely to have multiple causes; although nearly half of anemic school children and women had altered iron status indicators, only 19.7% of overall anemia was attributable to iron deficiency. Geo-helminth infection …
Prevalence and spatial distribution of intestinal parasitic infections in a rural Amazonian settlement, Acre State, Brazil
A population-based survey of the prevalence and spatial distribution of intestinal parasitism was carried out in an agricultural settlement in the Amazon Basin of Brazil (Granada, Acre State). More than half (53.4%) of the 429 stool specimens from subjects in all age groups, living in 113 households, had cysts, ova, or larvae of intestinal parasites. The most prevalent parasites were Giardia duodenalis (19.6%) and soil-transmitted helminths (12.7…
Child health and nutrition in the Western Brazilian Amazon: Population-based surveys in two counties in Acre State
The article presents prevalence rates for malnutrition, intestinal parasitic infections, anemia, and iron deficiency in under-five children in a population-based cross-sectional survey performed in the urban area of two counties in the Western Brazilian Amazon, Assis Brasil (n = 200) and Acrelandia (n = 477). Available data included: (a) weight and height measurements, standardized as z-scores using the 1977 NCHS reference population, (b) diagnos…
Anemia e deficiência de ferro em pré-escolares da Amazônia Ocidental brasileira: Prevalência E Fatores Associados
Estudo transversal de base populacional que investigou prevalênciasde anemia e fatores associados à anemia, anemia ferropriva e deficiência de ferro entre crianças de 6 a 60 meses da área urbana de dois municípios do Acre, Brasil (N = 624). Dosagens de hemoglobina sanguínea, ferritina e receptor solúvel de transferrina plasmáticas foram realizadas mediante sangue venoso. Condições sócio-econômicas, demográficas e de morbidade foram obtidas por qu…
Nutritional status of children under 5 years of age in the Brazilian Western Amazon before and after the Interoceanic highway paving: A population-based study
Overweight increase within this undernutrition scenario reveals that the process of nutritional transition began in this Amazonian city only in the last decade, and therefore, it is delayed when compared to overweight in other parts of Brazil. Such nutritional transition in Assis Brasil may have been facilitated by the construction of the Interoceanic Highway
Socioeconomic inequalities are still a barrier to full child vaccine coverage in the Brazilian Amazon: A cross-sectional study in Assis Brasil, Acre, Brazil
This study showed that vaccine coverage in the first twelve months of life in Assis Brasil is similar to other areas in the Amazon and it is below the coverage postulated by the Brazilian Ministry of Health. Low vaccine coverage was associated with socioeconomic inequities that still prevail in the Brazilian Amazon. Short and long-term strategies must be taken to update child vaccines and increase vaccine coverage in the Amazon
Evolution of Socioeconomic Conditions and Its Relation to Spatial–Temporal Changes of Giardiasis and Helminthiasis in Amazonian Children
Stunting in children under five years old is still a health problem in the Western Brazilian Amazon: A population-based study in Assis Brasil, Acre, Brazil
Despite the process of nutritional transition in Brazil, in some places, such as the Amazon region, stunting is still an important public health problem. We identified the prevalence and factors associated with stunting in children under five years old residing in the urban area of Assis Brasil. A survey was conducted in which a questionnaire on socioeconomic, maternal and children’s conditions was applied, and height or length was measured. The …
Associação entre malária e anemia em área urbana de transmissão do Plasmodium: Mâncio Lima, Acre, Brasil
O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a prevalência de anemia atribuível à malária na população urbana residente no Município de Mâncio Lima, Acre, Brasil. Trata-se de um estudo de coorte não concorrente com 1.167 pessoas acompanhadas por três meses anteriores à data da entrevista mediante dados do SIVEP-Malária. Foram calculadas as medidas de frequência e a prevalência de anemia em pacientes com e sem histórico de malária recente, conforme as var…
Epidemiology, Biodiversity, and Technological Trajectories in the Brazilian Amazon: From Malaria to Covid-19
The Amazon biome is under severe threat due to increasing deforestation rates and loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services while sustaining a high burden of neglected tropical diseases. Approximately two thirds of this biome are located within Brazilian territory. There, socio-economic and environmental landscape transformations are linked to the regional agrarian economy dynamics, which has developed into six techno-productive trajectories (T…
Challenges and perspectives in analyzing health in the Brazilian Amazon: A Look at Population-Based Studies
Desafios e perspectivas na análise da saúde na Amazônia brasileira: Um Olhar Sobre Estudos De Base Populacional
Validity and Applicability of the Eating Motivation Survey (Tems) in a University Population in the Western Brazilian Amazon
This study aimed to test the factorial structure of the Eating Motivation Survey (TEMS) using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) in a sample of 632 university students from the Western Brazilian Amazon. A cross-sectional study was conducted between December 2022 and April 2023 with participants of both sexes, aged 18 or older. In addition to CFA, psychometric analyses were performed, and a Structural Equation Model was developed to examine the re…
Medicine (12 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (9 works) · Environmental health (9 works) · Population (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · Biology (6 works) · Amazon rainforest (5 works) · Indigenous Health and Education (5 works) · Socioeconomics (5 works) · Acre (4 works)