There is evidence that behavioral and lifestyle changes, encouraged by the Protestant churches in Brazil (especially Pentecostals and Neo-Pentecostals), are positively associated with variables such as health and income, which are, in their turn, considered into the Human Development Index (HDI)...

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.

Introduction: The aging of the Brazilian population brings out the question about rising health expenditures, which are dependent not only on the age structure, but also on the expenditure distribution by age, which, on its turn, is related to the epidemiological profile by age and on the...