Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a serious public health problem, and can be considered an "epidemic" in growth. Obesity, hyperlipidemia and smoking accelerate the progression culminating in need of treatment. Life expectancy at every age is reduced, the risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke...

The present study discusses some aspects related to the the anlyzes of mortality causes. The folowing issues are addressed: (1) the underlying causes-of-death mortality, presenting their uses and limitations, (2) the issue of mortality based on multiple causes, indicating presentation forms and...

As relações entre a dinâmica populacional e a economia estão no centro das análises sobre o crescimento econômico longo prazo desde as formulações de Malthus. Este livro preenche uma lacuna na área de estudos sobre o mercado de trabalho brasileiro, colocando em evidência a importância...

Esse livro inaugura uma nova etapa do Exame da Associação Nacional de Centros de Pós-graduação em Economia (ANPEC), rumo à sua profissionalização. Os autores presenteiam a comunidade acadêmica de economia com a resolução de todas as questões contidas nas provas de Microeconomia...

This paper investigates the impacts of Bolsa Família program on children aged 0-6 immunization in Brazil and its regions. Bolsa Familia is a conditional cash transfer program. One of its conditionalities is the children attendance to the immunization calendar ruled by Health Ministry. The...

To elicit preference weights for a subset of EuroQol five-dimensional (EQ-5D) questionnaire health states from a representative sample for the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, using a time trade-off (TTO) method and to analyze these data so as to estimate social preference weights for the complete...

The present study focuses on recent aspects related to socioeconomic, demographic and health in Mozambique. A number of indicators are used in order to achieve this aim. Regarding health, HIV / AIDS and Malaria, diseases of high prevalence and incidence in Mozambique are explicitly highlighted.

This paper investigates the impact of a conditional cash transfer on child nutritional status in Brazil. We use data from "Bolsa Família" Research Impact Evaluation. "Bolsa Família" is a conditional cash transfer program focused on Brazilian poor families. In order to evaluate the average...