We would like to thank the entire academic community of the medicine course of the Life Sciences Academic Unit of Universidade Federal de
Campina Grande, campus Cajazeiras, whose pedagogical project was the object of this research, as well as the Postgraduate Program in Family Health in the Northeast of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, the Center of Collective Health Studies (NESC/UFRN), and the Northeast Network of Family Health Education (RENASF), which enabled the Master's thesis that originated the present article.
A total of 86 elderly people living in
Campina Grande, PB were selected from the database of the FIBRA Study (an acronym for The Fragility of Brazilian Elderly People) to participate in the study.
(Tese Doutorado)--Universidade Federal de
Campina Grande,
Campina Grande, Brasil.
A Associacao Industrial e Comercial de Quatro Barras e
Campina Grande do Sul (QBCAMP) e uma entidade sem fins lucrativos, formalizada em 1988, por empresarios locais com o intuito de estabelecer uma entidade que reunisse os interesses da classe e que auxiliasse no desenvolvimento economico e social dos municipios de Quatro Barras e
Campina Grande do Sul (QBCAMP, 2016), que estao localizados na regiao metropolitana de Curitiba, Estado do Parana, Sul do Brasil.
The city of
Campina Grande showed the highest frequency of cases, representing half of the total recorded and showing the highest prevalence among the cities analyzed, with 7.5/10,000.
Laboratorio de Entomologia, Embrapa Algodao, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria, Rua Oswaldo Cruz, 1143,
Campina Grande, Paraiba, Brasil, 58.428-095, carlos.domingues-silva@embrapa.br, raul.almeida@embrapa.br.
Endereco para correspondencia: Kaio Keomma Aires Silva Medeiros Rua Francisco Calixto, 111--CEP: 58400-750--Monte Santo,
Campina Grande (PB), Brasil--E-mail: keomma.kaio@gmail.com
(1) Programa de Pos-graduacao em Sistemas Agroindustriais, Universidade Federal de
Campina Grande (UFCG), 58840-000, Pombal, PB, Brasil.
The study was conducted from May 2010 to October 2011, at the Experimental Station of the National Semi-Arid Institute (INSA), located in the municipality of
Campina Grande, State of Paraiba, Brazil, at the geographical coordinates 7[degrees]16'35.9"S and 35[degrees]57'55.3"W with 552 m altitude, maximum temperature of 31-32[degrees]C and minimum around 23-15[degrees]C, relative air humidity between 75-82% and rainfall of 1,046 [mm.sup.3].
Natan Cabral, 5, stands on the cracked ground of the Boqueirao reservoir in the Metropolitan Region of
Campina Grande, Paraiba state, Brazil, February 13, 2017.
