In 2006, the Bolsa Família Program completed its expansion, expecting to cover 11 million beneficiary families. The objective of this article is to evaluate whether this implied in deterioration in the program's efficient targeting and whether the target of 11 million families in fact covers...

This paper aims to analyze federal public policies and normative devices in light of the monitoring indicators of the Inter-American Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities (CIADDIS/OAS), promulgated by the Organization of American States...

This article analyzes the situation of social isolation among the elderly, considering both its impacts on health and well-being and the interventions that have been mobilized to combat it. Based on international literature on the topic, the first part of the text discusses the negative...

The text presents the estimative of insufficiency of the caloric availability and the expenditures with food of the families of the largest urban regions of the country. For this, the normative food baskets of CEPAL, which take care of the nutritional recommendations, especially that ones...

There are several studies showing that household income seems to be an important determinant of children`s health. The objective of this paper is to document the relationship between income and children`s health in Brazil using three data sources and many health indicators. The empirical...

This paper uses an ordered logit model to investigate the demographic, economic and social determinants of the performance of some partial life quality indicators for Brazilian households, based on the POF 2002-2003 survey on life conditions evaluation. Some indicators have a subjective content,...