scholarly journals SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence and social inequalities in different subgroups of healthcare workers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2022 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 100170
Author(s):  
Roberta Fernandes Correia ◽  
Ana Carolina Carioca da Costa ◽  
Daniella Campelo Batalha Cox Moore ◽  
Saint Clair Gomes Junior ◽  
Maria Paula Carneiro de Oliveira ◽  
...  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Fernandes Correia ◽  
Ana Carolina Carioca da Costa ◽  
Daniella Campelo Batalha Cox Moore ◽  
Saint Clair Gomes Junior ◽  
Maria Paula Carneiro de Oliveira ◽  
...  

Design Issues ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 52-60
Author(s):  
Adam Kaasa

This article initiates a discussion about the unequal geography of the labor that challenges institutions and processes of public scholarship in design. The comparison between the urban competitions in New York, London, and Rio de Janeiro demonstrates that it was only in the Global South that challenges to the technology of the competition were raised. These challenges were based on issues of power imbalances between institutions both within and between the Global North and Global South, and around questions of the social inequalities embedded in the structures of the competition itself (the submissions, the jury, the exhibition). Through this analysis, the article suggests that the burden of labor for decolonizing rests on those already oppressed by systems embedded in the continuous presence of colonialism.


2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (17) ◽  
pp. 3183-3191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dóra Chor ◽  
Valeska Andreozzi ◽  
Maria JM Fonseca ◽  
Letícia O Cardoso ◽  
Sherman A James ◽  
...  

AbstractObjectiveIn a cohort of government employees in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, we investigated prospectively, sex-specific associations between education and BMI trajectories and their potential effect modification by race.DesignOf the 4030 participants in Phase 1 (1999), 3253 (81 %) participated in Phase 2 (2003) and 3058 (76 %) participated in Phase 3 (2006). Education was categorized as elementary, high school or college graduate. Study participants self-identified as White, Black or Pardo. BMI was calculated from measured weight and height. BMI trajectories were modelled using a generalized additive regression model with mixed effects (GAMM).SettingThe Pro-Saúde Study, a longitudinal investigation of social determinants of health.SubjectsWomen (n 1441) and men (n 1127) who participated in the three phases of data collection and had complete information for all study variables.ResultsWomen and men with less than high school, or only a high school education, gained approximately 1 kg/m2 more than college graduates (women: 1·06 kg/m2 (P<0·001) and 1·06 kg/m2 (P<0·001), respectively; men: 1·04 kg/m2 (P=0·013) and 1·01 kg/m2 (P=0·277), respectively). For women only, race was independently associated with weight gain. Women identifying as Pardo or Black gained 1·03 kg/m2 (P=0·01) and 1·02 kg/m2 (P=0·10), respectively, more than Whites. No effect modification by race was observed for either men or women.ConclusionsWhile both lower education and darker race were associated with greater weight gain, gender similarities and differences were observed in these associations. The relationship between weight gain and different indicators of social status are therefore complex and require careful consideration when addressing the obesity epidemic.


2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Thiago Oliveira Lima Matiolli ◽  
Ana Carolina Christovão

This paper presents a reflection that is the result of a survey which intended to monitor the works of the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) in the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro (RMRJ). After two years of research and from this empirical object, we intend to think the management of Brazilian cities over the past decade in the context of the Lula Government, in particular, whose performance is considered in a discussion about the possibility of a New-Developmentalism, since this government is marked by a strong presence of the state in the construction of economic infrastructure and efforts to combat social inequalities.


Author(s):  
Sandra C Fonseca ◽  
Letícia M Oliveira ◽  
Natalia M R Almeida ◽  
Katia S Silva ◽  
Pauline Lorena Kale

2007 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Rapparini ◽  
V. Saraceni ◽  
L.M. Lauria ◽  
P.F. Barroso ◽  
V. Vellozo ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
pp. jech-2020-214724
Author(s):  
Julio Silva ◽  
Marcelo Ribeiro-Alves

BackgroundThe novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) is a global pandemic. The lack of protective vaccine or treatment led most of the countries to follow the flattening of the infection curve with social isolation measures. There is evidence that socioeconomic inequalities have been shaping the COVID-19 burden among low and middle-income countries. This study described what sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors were associated with the greatest risk of COVID-19 infection and mortality and how did the importance of key neighbourhood-level socioeconomic factors change over time during the early stages of the pandemic in the Rio de Janeiro municipality, Brazil.MethodsWe linked socioeconomic attributes to confirmed cases and deaths from COVID-19 and computed age-standardised incidence and mortality rates by domains such as age, gender, crowding, education, income and race/ethnicity.ResultsThe evidence suggests that although age-standardised incidence rates were higher in wealthy neighbourhoods, age-standardised mortality rates were higher in deprived areas during the first 2 months of the pandemic. The age-standardised mortality rates were also higher in males, and in areas with a predominance of people of colour, which are disproportionately represented in more vulnerable groups. The population also presented COVID-19 ‘rejuvenation’, that is, people became risk group younger than in developed countries.ConclusionWe conclude that there is a strong health gradient for COVID-19 death risk during the early stages of the pandemic. COVID-19 cases continued to move towards the urban periphery and to more vulnerable communities, threatening the health system functioning and increasing the health gradient.


2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deanna Kerrigan ◽  
Andrea Vazzano ◽  
Neilane Bertoni ◽  
Monica Malta ◽  
Francisco Inacio Bastos

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (05) ◽  
pp. 622-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. B. Hofer ◽  
T. F. Abreu ◽  
E. G. Silva ◽  
C. A. Sepúlveda ◽  
F. A. Gibara ◽  
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We assessed the quality of hand hygiene among healthcare workers at a pediatrics hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Hand hygiene was performed in 491 (34%) of 1,455 opportunities. Of these hand hygiene events, correct performance was observed in only 173 (35%). Multivariate analysis revealed that correct performance of hand hygiene was associated with the use of an alcohol-based product and a lack of jewelry (for all events) and employment in an infirmary with a comparatively higher ratio of nurses to patients (for events involving nurses).


Author(s):  
Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro ◽  
Luciana Corrêa do Lago

Neste trabalho, buscamos avaliar os princípios segundo os quais se organiza o espaço social das metrópoles de São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro e Belo Horizonte, adotando essa noção como um conjunto de relações que definem posições e condicionam os atributos dos indivíduos por elas distribuídos.1 As variáveis relativas à natureza, à posição na ocupação no trabalho e aos setores econômicos nos quais se exercem são utilizadas, em um primeiro momento, para definir conceitualmente as categorias sócio-ocupacionais que conformam a estrutura social a partir das relações que definem posições no mercado de trabalho e na estrutura produtiva dessas metrópoles. Analisamos a composição da estrutura social do conjunto das três metrópoles e suas diferenças, utilizando os dados do Censo de 1991. Em seguida, buscamos avaliar como essa hierarquia social corresponde à distribuição desigual dos dois atributos sociais fundamentais na sociedade capitalista contemporânea, os quais determinam as chances de inserção dos indivíduos na hierarquia social: o capital econômico (renda) e o capital escolar (educação). Utilizando as técnicas de análise fatorial e de conglomerado (cluster analysis), procedemos à classificação dos indivíduos segundo a sua posição na estrutura social e na distribuição dos capitais econômico e social. Tal análise nos permitirá identificar os princípios centrais segundo os quais o espaço social da metrópole se estrutura. Em seguida, avaliaremos em que medida as posições sociais identificadas são sobredeterminadas, ou não, por três atributos sociodemográficos que atuam como mecanismos seletivos na distribuição das formas de capitais: raça/etnia, sexo e tipo de família. Palavras-chave: estrutura social; desigualdade; metrópole. Abstract: The paper presents the results of a comparative analysis of the social structures of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, adopting the concept of social space as a group of relationships which define positions and condition individuals’ attributes. Social positions are based on twenty four professional categories built up from economic, occupational and social variables of the 1991 Demographic Census, each position expressing a place in the social division of labour. In the analysis of social space we examine the differences between category profiles in terms of income, education, gender, race, geographical location and housing conditions, and then we identify the major social structuring axes of the three metropolises and their correlation with social inequalities. In this way we attempt to use a “multi-dimensional” concept of the structuring of social space that allows a better understanding of the occasional differences in social position between occupational groups. Such events are understood not as exceptions but rather as manifestations of the multiple scales of social space hierarchization. Keywords: social structure; inequality; metropolis.


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