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de Maio Nascimento, Marcelo – Educational Gerontology, 2020
COVID-19 is a global public health crisis, which in addition to making victims is changing the living habits of the population. The objective of this study was to investigate the impacts of social isolation on the physical and mental health of older adults and to learn how they are informing themselves about the pandemic. It is a qualitative study…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Social Isolation, Physical Health, Mental Health
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de Moura, S. L. – Health Education Research, 2004
This study investigated the health-related concerns of adolescents living on streets as compared to poor and privileged adolescents living with their families in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The different groups of respondents were similar in terms of individuals' fear of disease and lack of concern about health in old age. AIDS and cancer were feared by…
Descriptors: Health Education, Mental Disorders, Diseases, Demography