In a context of disaster recurrence, naturalization or demotion of the concept to tragedy does not include all the dynamics and processes involved in affecting of communities and population groups most vulnerable to death and illness, such as the old...
Pandemics of undernutrition and obesity, associated with climate change, constitute a global syndemic. There is a relevant point of convergence, which is the unsustainability of current food systems. In this article, we discuss the role of public hea...
This article is an essay on the production of public insecurity, its income in terms of a regime of fear and its effects of normalization of practices in exception to the rule of law. It benefitsethnographic work with favela youth, military police an...
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic brought challenges related to prevention, protection and care. Coping strategies, such as social distancing, individual protection for the population and workers, increase in number of intensive care beds, provision of human r...
The National School Feeding Program guarantees, through the transfer of financial resources, the feeding of students in public and philanthropic schools. In adolescence, good nutrition is influenced by the rates of physical growth and changes in body...
Objective: describe the epidemiological profile and the spatial distribution of deaths and confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Western health macro-region of Bahia. Methods: ecological study on the interiorization of SARS-CoV-2 between March 21, 2020 ...
It was aimed to asses the factors related to the physical capacity of upper and lower limbs in quilombola elderly people. Cross-sectional, analytic study, performed with elderly residents in the quilombola community Caiana dos Crioulos, Alagoa Grande...
The characteristics of health system reforms in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries, the evolution of public spending and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are analyzed. Neoliberal influences on the reforms and the possible consequence...
