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A favor de la democratización del conocimiento científico para el logro de los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible

Los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), también conocidos como Objetivos Mundiales, son un llamado universal a la adopción de medidas para poner fin a la pobreza, proteger el planeta y garantizar que todas las personas gocen de paz y prosperidad(UNDP-Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarr...

Unemployment, poverty, and hunger in Brazil in Covid-19 pandemic times

Rev. Nutr. (Online); 34 (), 2021
ABSTRACT This scientific note presents preliminary developments of the Covid-19 pandemic on unemployment, poverty, and hunger in Brazil. The data on unemployment rate, un employment insurance claims, contingent of families in extreme poverty, and food insecurity was collected in government information sy...

Spatial and spatio-temporal distribution of women living with HIV mortality in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from 2007 to 2017

ABSTRACT OBJETIVE: To present some factors related to the mortality rates of WLHIV in the city of Porto Alegre-RS. METHODS: This is a spatial and spatio-temporal analysis of ecological data about all women monitored by the health care services for the vertical transmission (VT) of HIV, between 2007 and...

Early Childhood Caries Experience of Children from Poor Families Living Below and Above Poverty Line

ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the role of poverty and its related factors on early childhood caries (ECC) experience among deprived children. Material and Methods: This population-based cross-sectional study surveyed 418 children aged one to six years enrolled in Brazilian public preschools from an a...

Perfil social y económico de los pacientes diagnosticados con trastornos del humor del Hospital Departamental Psiquiátrico Universitario del Valle, Cali

El objetivo de este artículo consiste en dar a conocer un perfil social, económico y demográfico de la población registrada con SISBÉN en el Hospital Departamental Psiquiátrico Universitario del Valle (HDPUV) entre el 2009 y el 2018, cuyo diagnóstico se encuentra dentro del grupo de los trastornos...

Roles for community health workers in diabetes prevention and management in low- and middle-income countries

Diabetes prevalence is increasing worldwide, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), posing the need for improved detection and management strategies. Chronic disease models and lifestyle medicine provide structures for action. Community health workers (CHWs) can significantly contribute t...

Sentidos e usos da fome no debate político brasileiro: recorrência e atualidade

Resumo: A fome é uma questão persistente e estrutural no Brasil, ocupando espaço na agenda política de tempos em tempos, em especial em momentos de crise política. Mas quando se torna interessante denunciar a fome? Quem enuncia o problema e de que modo? O artigo discute os diferentes usos retóricos...

Family resilience and parenting stress in poor families

This quantitative and cross-sectional study aimed to describe and associate the levels of resilience, parenting stress and multidimensional poverty of poor families living in the city of Belém (PA). The probabilistic sample consisted of 429 caregivers, interviewed in Social Assistance Reference Centers,...

De la teoría a la práctica: el discurso de estilos de vida saludable y su aplicación en la vida cotidiana de mujeres chilenas de sectores populares

Resumen: El discurso de estilos de vida saludable (DEVS) plantea que una población se mantendrá sana si adopta estilos de vida saludable, modificando comportamientos individuales perjudiciales para la salud y, por tanto, moralmente incorrectos. El DEVS ha sido hegemónico en la Salud Pública desde fin...

Health, childlessness and poverty in Latin American countries

Abstract: Recent literature proposes that poverty could lead women to remain childless, thus attenuating or reverting higher fertility typically observed among women of lower schooling level. We explore the role of health in this approach: does health have a distinctive detrimental effect on fertility am...