Edna Afonso Reis

Dados Biográficos

ID224164
NOMEEdna Afonso Reis
PRENOMESEdna Afonso
SOBRENOMEReis
ASSINATURAREIS E A
AFILIAÇÕESUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais
ORCID0000-0003-1465-9167
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS16
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES43
TOTAL COMO AUTOR16
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2010
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
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  • Users’ Perspectives on Primary Care and Public Health Services in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Open AccessIgor Fradique Leandro Ferraz, Mariana Crespo Raimundo et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025

    This study focuses on the Unified Health System (SUS) in five regions of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, one of Brazil's most important states, as part of a comprehensive analysis of a research project, which has generated publications in earlier phases. The objective was to assess users' perceptions of SUS in terms of access to and the quality of public health services, including primary care and pharmaceutical services. A cross-sectional s…

  • Users’ Perceptions of Access to and Quality of Public Health Services in Brazil

    Open AccessMariana Crespo Raimundo, Edna Afonso Reis et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025

    A universal health system should cover diverse regions with unique needs. However, 49.4% of participants stated they never received information on how to store their medicines, and 42.3% reported never encountering a pharmacist in public pharmacies. Further ongoing studies assessing user perceptions are essential to ensure users play a central role in health decision-making, contributing to the system's strengthening and improvement

  • Sociodemographic, economic, and academic factors linked with resilience in university students during covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessJéssica Evelyn de Andrade, Adriana Lúcia Meireles et al.ARTICLEBMC Psychology2024

    The study's findings revealed that sociodemographic, economic, and academic variables were significantly associated with resilience scores in undergraduates from Minas Gerais during the covid-19 pandemic. These findings can help universities develop target strategies to promote students' resilience and reduce the risk of poor mental health among this population

  • Comparative effectiveness of clozapine and non-clozapine atypical antipsychotics provided by the Brazilian National Health System in adults with schizophrenia

    Open AccessJúlio César Menezes Vieira, Edna Afonso Reis et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2024

    This is the first published Brazilian cohort study that evaluated survival in people with schizophrenia, highlighting the impact of atypical antipsychotics. In this real-world analysis, the use of clozapine had a protective effect on survival when compared to olanzapine, risperidone, quetiapine, and ziprasidone

  • Users’ Perceptions of Access to and Quality of Unified Health System Services in Brazil

    Open AccessJorge Augusto Soares de Souza, Edna Afonso Reis et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2024

    Evaluating the access to and quality of healthcare services from the users' perspective is an important assessment process to identify priorities. This study assessed the profile of health service usage and the views of the Unified Health System (SUS) users about the access to and quality of SUS public health services. A cross-sectional study was conducted with participants from the Coastal Lowlands Region of the Rio de Janeiro State/Brazil, betw…

  • Levels of adherence to contemporary antiretroviral regimens and the likelihood of viral suppression

    Vanessa Aracele Rodrigues, Maria Das Graças B Ceccato et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2023

    Levels of adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) can affect the likelihood of viral suppression differentially among ART regimens. In this prospective cohort conducted in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, we included 354 individuals who initiated ART containing tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/lamivudine/efavirenz in fixed-dose combination (TDF/3TC/EFV) or tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/lamivudine associated with dolutegravir (TDF/3TC + DTG). Viral suppress…

  • Assessment of Pharmaceutical Services for Smoking Cessation

    Open AccessMaria Eduarda Pinheiro Laborne-e-Valle, Ana Emília de Oliveira Ahouagi et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Smoking is the main preventable cause of illness and early death worldwide. Thus, it is better to promote smoking cessation than to treat tobacco-related diseases. The objective of this study was to assess the implementation and effectiveness of smoking cessation pharmaceutical services offered in primary health care (PHC) in a large Brazilian city through a type 1 effectiveness-implementation hybrid study. The services were offered through indiv…

  • Prevalência e Fatores Associados à Polifarmácia em Idosos Atendidos na Atenção Primária à Saúde em Belo Horizonte-MG, Brasil

    Open AccessPatrícia Carvalho De Oliveira, Micheline Rosa Silveira et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2021

    O objetivo deste artigo é analisar a prevalência de polifarmácia e de polifarmácia excessiva, bem como seus fatores associados, entre idosos atendidos em duas Unidades Básicas de Saúde de Belo Horizonte-MG. Foi conduzido um estudo observacional transversal, realizado por meio de informações resultantes de uma entrevista estruturada ao paciente. Foram analisadas as associações individuais de cada variável explicativa com a polifarmácia e polifarmá…

  • Does switching from multiple to single-tablet regimen containing the same antiretroviral drugs improve adherence? A group-based trajectory modeling analysis

    Simone Furtado Dos Santos, Celline Cardoso Almeida-Brasil et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2020

    Combination Antiretroviral Therapy (cART) in single-tablet regimens (STR) is a simplification strategy that can potentially improve medication adherence and clinical outcomes. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 1206 patients using efavirenz, tenofovir and lamivudine in multiple-tablet regimen who switched to the STR containing the same active ingredients in a southeast metropolis in Brazil. We measured adherence using the proportion of …

  • Which antiretroviral regimen is associated with higher adherence in Brazil? A comparison of single, multi, and dolutegravir-based regimens

    Open AccessTarsilla Spezialli Cardoso, Juliana De Oliveira Costa et al.ARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2019Referências: 30

    We evaluated adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and its associated factors according to the type of regimen in patients initiating treatment in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. We measured adherence using the eight items Morisky Therapeutic Adhesion Scale (MMAS-8) and compared the use of "backbone" tenofovir/lamivudine plus efavirenz one tablet once-daily (STR) or dolutegravir in multi-tablet once-daily (MTR-DTG)…

  • Uso de medicamentos e fatores associados à polifarmácia em indivíduos com diabetes mellitus em Minas Gerais, Brasil

    Open AccessMichael Ruberson Ribeiro Da Silva, Leonardo Maurício Diniz et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2018

    O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar o uso de medicamentos, a prevalência e os fatores associados à polifarmácia em pacientes com diabetes mellitus (DM) em Minas Gerais. Realizou-se um estudo transversal com descrição dos medicamentos em uso e análise da associação entre características sociodemográficas e clínicas com polifarmácia, por meio de regressão logística. Dos 2619 entrevistados, 56,5% estavam em polifarmácia. Medicamentos para DM, agente…

  • Effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy in the single-tablet regimen era

    Open AccessJuliana De Oliveira Costa, Maria Das Graças B Ceccato et al.ARTICLERevista de Saúde Pública2018

    OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy and the associated factors according to the type of regimen used: Single Tablet Regimen or Multiple Tablet Regimen. METHODS: Prospective cohort of 440 patients (male, 74.3%, median age, 36 years old) who initiated antiretroviral therapy between Jan/14 and Dec/15 at a referral service in Belo Horizonte. Efficacy was defined as viral suppression (viral load, VL

  • Effectiveness of second-line antiretroviral therapy

    Letícia Penna Braga, Cássia C P Mendicino et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2017

    Including antiretroviral drug switches as a measure of ART failure could be more suitable than conventional measures to evaluate health outcomes in "real-world" settings. This is part of a historical cohort of HIV-infected adults who initiated ART from 2001-2005, and were followed up for a maximum of five years in three HIV/AIDS centers in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Follow-up information included data from 2001-2010. All patients switched from first…

  • Avaliação da infraestrutura da Assistência Farmacêutica no Sistema Único de Saúde em Minas Gerais

    Open AccessMariana Michel Barbosa, Marina Morgado Garcia et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2017

    Em 2008, o estado de Minas Gerais criou o Programa Rede Farmácia de Minas (RFM), uma estratégia para garantir infraestrutura adequada das farmácias. O objetivo deste artigo é caracterizar a infraestrutura da Assistência Farmacêutica (AF) de Minas Gerais, comparando municípios contemplados ou não pela RFM, no intuito de verificar se os gastos estaduais implicaram em melhoria das AF municipais. Estudo transversal de avaliação da AF de Minas Gerais.…

  • Utilização de serviços de saúde por população quilombola do Sudoeste da Bahia, Brasil

    Open AccessKarine De Oliveira Gomes, Edna Afonso Reis et al.ARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2013Citada por: 43Referências: 15

    Use of health services is increasing in Brazil as a whole, but geographic and social inequalities persist, especially among minority groups. The aim of this study was to analyze the use of health services by members of quilombos (slavedescendant African-Brazilian communities) in Vitória da Conquista, Bahia State, Brazil. This cross-sectional health survey in 2011 focused on 797 adults (≥ 18 years old) belonging to quilombos. The magnitude of the …

  • Construção de tábuas de mortalidade de inválidos por meio de modelos estatísticos bayesianos

    Open AccessAloísio Joaquim Freitas Ribeiro, Edna Afonso Reis et al.ARTICLERevista Brasileira de Estudos de…2010

    Este trabalho teve como objetivo a construção de tábuas de mortalidade de inválidos dos segurados de clientela urbana do Regime Geral da Previdência Social. Assumindo que o número de mortes em cada idade segue uma distribuição de Poisson, as taxas de mortalidade por idade simples foram graduadas por meio de métodos estatísticos bayesianos, pelo modelo paramétrico de Gompertz-Makehan, utilizando inferência estatística bayesiana. Foram construídas …