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Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts
Sunday, July 22, 2018
Wednesday, December 03, 2014
IDH Regiões Metropolitanas BR
Referência recomendada pela AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja
Atlas traz agora IDHM por mais de 9 mil áreas de 16 Regiões Metropolitanas brasileira
Regiões Metropolitanas de São Paulo, Brasília, Curitiba, Belo Horizonte e Vitória são as de maior Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano Municipal (IDHM). Manaus, Belém, Fortaleza, Natal e Recife são as RMs com menor IDHM.
25 Novembro 2014
do PNUD
Dados de desenvolvimento humano de 16 Regiões Metropolitanas (RM
Saturday, May 24, 2014
World Cup and the BR Future
How the World Cup can make or break Brazil’s hopes for the future: Misha Glenny gives a talk on the country that’ll host TEDGlobal 2014
If you ever find yourself in Brazil, advises Misha Glenny, try to look past the samba, soccer and sea. The journalist, who is currently researching a book on the underground drug trade in Rio de Janeiro, sees a Brazil of challenges, contradictions and opportunities that are far more complex than the celebrations on Ipanema let on./.../
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Brasil: Política de Saúde
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of mortality in Brazil and accounted for 72% of all deaths in 2007.1 The burden of NCDs in Brazil reflects accelerated epidemiological, demographic, and nutritional changes in the past few decades. In 1930, 46% of all deaths in Brazilian state capitals were caused by infectious diseases, but by 2007 this figure had fallen to 10%.1During the same period, mortality from cardiovascular diseases increased from 11% to 31%.1—3 The country's demographic transition is the result of declines in premature mortality and fertility rates, alongside a rapidly ageing population.1—3 Increased income, industrialisation, urbanisation, and globalisation have led to much economic and social change in Brazil. One consequence has been a rise in unhealthy diets and physical inactivity; the prevalence of men who were overweight increased from 18·6% in 1974 to 50·1% in 2008.1, 4
NCDs and their risk factors affect people from all socioeconomic groups, but especially individuals who are most vulnerable, such as older adults and those with low educational attainment or from low-income families.1, 5 Surveys in Brazil have shown that smoking, obesity, and unhealthy diets are more frequent in individuals with low educational attainment.4, 6 Among Indian populations living in Brazil, the prevalence of obesity reached 25% in men and 41% in women in 1989, particularly due to westernised diets and reductions in physical activity.7/.../
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
People Who Mattered
Few political acts would be harder to follow than Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who was arguably the most popular President in Brazil's history. But his hand-picked successor and former chief of staff, Dilma Rousseff, who took office as President on Jan. 1, has turned out to be more than just a proxy for her term-limited boss. Granted, the no-nonsense economist has continued the hybrid capitalist-socialist project that greatly expanded Brazil's middle class under Lula. But Rousseff, 64, an ex-urban guerrilla who fought Brazil's 1964-85 military dictatorship and was tortured when that regime imprisoned her in the 1970s, has shown a willingness to venture into policy terrain that Lula often avoided, and which the South American giant has to tackle if it wants to reach genuine developed-nation status. One of the most important is political reform, particularly an anti-corruption campaign Rousseff announced last summer. On foreign policy, she has signaled more concern for human rights, especially for women, in nations like Iran. Right now Brazilians are counting on Dilma, as they call her, to navigate the end of their decade-long economic boom. And with her approval rating above 70%, she may someday be the tough act to follow.
Monday, May 09, 2011
Health in Brazil
Health in Brazil
Launched in Brasília May 9, 2011
Brazil has made significant improvements in maternal and child health, emergency care, and in reducing the burden of infectious diseases. But the news is not all good. The country continues to have a burden of injury mortality that is different from other countries due to the large number of murders, especially using firearms. Obesity levels are increasing and caesarean section rates are the highest in the world.
Brazil now has the opportunity to move closer towards its ultimate goal of universal, equitable, and sustainable health care as enshrined in the 1988 Constitution. To highlight this opportunity, The Lancet is publishing a Series of six papers that critically examine what the country’s policies have achieved and where future challenges lie. As Cesar Victora and colleagues conclude in the final paper of the Series: "the challenge is ultimately political, requiring continuous engagement by Brazilian society as a whole to secure the right to health for all Brazilian people."
Series Comments
Series Papers
Successes and failures in the control of infectious diseases in Brazil: social and environmental context, policies, interventions, and research needs
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Chronic non-communicable diseases in Brazil: burden and current challenges
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Violence and injuries in Brazil: the effect, progress made, and challenges ahead
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