Brazil has more than 23 million rural people with unimproved sanitation, which corresponds to about 75% of rural population. This study aimed to measure the social, environmental and economic impacts caused by implementation of a technological proposal for sanitation: “septic cesspool...

In this study, we investigated the determinants of differences between Brazilian municipalities regarding compliance with the rule for purchasing products from family farming for the National School Feeding Program (Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar - PNAE), resulting from Law No....

Violence against women is a problem of great magnitude and relevance in Brazil, which has death as its more extreme expression. This study aimed to estimate corrected female mortality rates due to assault and to describe the profile of these deaths in Brazil, in its macro-regions and Federative...

Infectious diseases of poverty disproportionately affect people living in poor and marginalized communities. Poverty creates conditions that favor the spread of communicable diseases and prevents the affected people from obtaining adequate access to prevention and care. The use of social...

In 2016, the causal relationship between Zika virus infection in pregnant women and the occurrence of microcephaly in infants was confirmed. However, in the previous year, when an unexpected increase in the number of live births with microcephaly was observed in Brazil, this relationship was...

This paper discusses the relationship between poverty and urban violence, taking São Paulo Municipality as example. It is argued that the local of residence, and not the income, is the most adequate variable to evaluate the association between poverty and violence in the city. The spatial cut...

The paper investigates de relationship between employment rate and mortality rate in Brazil during the period 1981-2002. It briefly reviews the literature on macroeconomic conditions and health, emphasizing the existence of two controversial hypothesis. The Ruhm's Hypothesis suggest that high...

This paper intends to present a particular analysis of Thorstein Veblen’s work. In this fashion, we have identified a central idea that commands his oeuvre: the non-teleologism. In addition, as a another central objective, the study pretends to establish a relationship between this hard core...

The purpose of this study is to analyse the determinants of life expectancy as proxy for health status of the OECD countries‘ population. A production function of health is used to explain life expectancy at birth for total and ageing population and according to gender. Socio-economic factors,...

Motivation: To know the expectations of odontology professionals, including students, parents and caregivers of Special Needs Patients with respect to characteristics considered to be important of a health professional that deals with Special Needs Patients in his/her practice. Objective: To...