Publications by authors named "Debora Moraes Coelho"
Article Synopsis
- Researchers looked at how the environment and people's backgrounds in cities affect how adults rate their health in four Latin American countries.
- They studied data from over 69,000 adults living in various neighborhoods and cities.
- They found that better local services and a good social environment related to better self-rated health, while the buildings and demographics didn't seem to matter as much.
Gender differences in the association of individual and contextual socioeconomic status with hypertension in 230 Latin American cities from the SALURBAL study: a multilevel analysis.
BMC Public Health
August 2023
Background: Despite global interest in gender disparities and social determinants of hypertension, research in urban areas and regions with a high prevalence of hypertension, such as Latin America, is very limited. The objective of this study was to examine associations of individual- and area-level socioeconomic status with hypertension in adults living in 230 cities in eight Latin America countries.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we used harmonized data from 109,184 adults (aged 18-97 years) from the SALURBAL (Salud Urbana en America Latina/Urban Health in Latin America) project.
Article Synopsis
- A study analyzed 10 years of data on physical activity in Brazil, focusing on leisure and transportation activities among adults based on interviews from 512,969 participants between 2010 and 2019.
- The findings revealed an increase in leisure physical activity but a decline in transportation-related physical activity, with variations noted by sex, age, education level, and race.
- Recommendations for policymakers include creating strategies to boost leisure activity among women and older adults, and transportation activity among those with higher education and white individuals.
The characteristics of urban green space have context-dependent associations with socioeconomic status (SES). Latin American cities provide a unique but understudied context to assess the green space-SES associations. We measured the quantity and quality of green space as greenness from satellite-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, and we modeled the relationship between greenness and SES in 371 major Latin American cities between 2000 and 2010.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOccurrence of hepatitis B in pregnant women and follow-up of exposed children in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, in 2012.
Epidemiol Serv Saude
July 2021
Objective: to describe the occurrence of hepatitis B among pregnant women, immunoprophylaxis and vertical and perinatal transmission in children exposed to the virus in the São Paulo state primary care network, Brazil.
Methods: this was a cross-sectional study using prenatal records of pregnant women attending health services between January and June 2012 and a cohort of newborns; the frequencies of the results were described and the estimated occurrence of hepatitis B was calculated.
Results: 6,233 pregnant women were included, of whom 53.
The QualiRede intervention: improving the performance of care continuum in HIV, congenital syphilis, and hepatitis C in health regions.
Rev Bras Epidemiol
October 2019
Introduction: Care continuum models have supported recent strategies against sexually transmitted diseases, such as HIV and Hepatitis C (HCV).
Methods: HIV, HCV, and congenital syphilis care continuum models were developed, including all stages of care, from promotion/prevention to clinical control/cure. The models supported the intervention QualiRede, developed by a University-Brazilian National Health System (SUS) partnership focused on managers and other professionals from six priority health regions in São Paulo and Santa Catarina.