Why do some countries do better or worse in life expectancy relative to income? An analysis of Brazil, Ethiopia, and the United States of America

T Freeman, HA Gesesew, C Bambra… - International journal for …, 2020 - Springer
Background While in general a country's life expectancy increases with national income,
some countries “punch above their weight”, while some “punch below their weight” …

[HTML][HTML] A realist synthesis to develop an explanatory model of how policy instruments impact child and maternal health outcomes

MS Barnish, SY Tan, S Robinson, A Taeihagh… - Social Science & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Child and maternal health, a key marker of overall health system performance,
is a policy priority area by the World Health Organization and the United Nations, including …

COVID-19 mortality in Brazil, 2020-21: consequences of the pandemic inadequate management

CL Szwarcwald, CS Boccolini… - Archives of Public …, 2022 - Springer
Background The COVID-19 pandemic brought countless challenges to public health and
highlighted the Brazilian health system vulnerabilities in facing the emergency. In this article …

The impact of COVID-19 on maternal death and fetal death, a cohort study in Brazil

AP Brioschi dos Santos, CR Vicente, JP Cola… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Objective The study aimed to evaluate the risk of maternal death and fetal death among
pregnant women infected with SARS-CoV-2. Methods This is a retrospective cohort study …

Political struggles for a universal health system in Brazil: successes and limits in the reduction of inequalities

CV Machado, GA Silva - Globalization and health, 2019 - Springer
Background Brazil is a populous high/middle-income country, characterized by deep
economic and social inequalities. Like most other Latin American nations, Brazil constructed …

Association of conditional cash transfers with maternal mortality using the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort

FJO Alves, D Ramos, ES Paixão, IR Falcão… - JAMA network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have been consistently associated with
improvements to the determinants of maternal health, but there have been insufficient …

Recent changes in growth trajectories: a population-based cohort study of over 5 million Brazilian children born between 2001 and 2014

C Santiago-Vieira, G Velasquez-Melendez… - The Lancet Regional …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background There is limited evidence on recent trends in childhood growth trajectories in
Low-/middle-income countries. We investigated how age-trajectories for height and Body …

Redução das iniquidades sociais no acesso às tecnologias apropriadas ao parto na Rede Cegonha

MC Leal, AP Esteves-Pereira, MEA Vilela… - Ciência & Saúde …, 2021 - SciELO Brasil
Este artigo compara os achados da Avaliação da Rede Cegonha (ARC), estudo avaliativo
sobre o programa Rede Cegonha (RC), com o Nascer no Brasil (NB), inquérito nacional …

[HTML][HTML] Nascer no Brasil: continuity of care during pregnancy and postpartum period for women and newborns

SDA Bittencourt, EM Cunha… - Revista de saude …, 2020 - SciELO Brasil
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To estimate the adequacy of health care during pregnancy and the
postpartum period in puerperal women and newborn users of the Unified Health System and …

Mortalidade no primeiro dia de vida: tendências, causas de óbito e evitabilidade em oito Unidades da Federação brasileira, entre 2010 e 2015

JAM Teixeira, WRM Araujo, AGK Maranhão… - … e Serviços de Saúde, 2019 - SciELO Brasil
Objetivo: calcular taxas de mortalidade no primeiro dia de vida entre 2010 e 2015 em oito
Unidades da Federação brasileira com melhor qualidade de informação, avaliar fatores …