Fiscal austerity and municipal health spending: an interrupted time series study.

Objective: To analyze the impact of the fiscal austerity policy (PAF) on health spending in Brazilian municipalities, considering population size and source of funds.

Methods: The interrupted time series method was used to analyze the effect of the PAF on total expenditure, resources transferred by the Federal Government, and own/state per capita resources allocated to health in the municipalities. The time series analyzed covered the period from 2010 to 2019, every six months.

Self-rated health and sociodemographic inequalities among Venezuelan adults: a study based on the National Survey of Living Conditions (ENCOVI 2021).

Self-rated health is an indicator that can be easily identified in health surveys, widely used to measure physical, social, mental, and health aspects of the population, and predict premature mortality. In Venezuela, this information only began to be collected recently, in the National Survey of Living Conditions (ENCOVI). In this context, our study aims to analyze the demographic and socioeconomic factors associated with non-positive self-rated health among Venezuelan adults.

[Support for family caregivers of older people during the COVID-19 pandemic].

This study aims to identify the type of support received by family caregivers of older people during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the associated socioeconomic health and care-related factors. Data from CUIDA-COVID study, an online questionnaire conducted from august to november 2020 (n = 4,820) were used. Three multiple models were built, with the following outcome: contracted support, family support, and lack of support.

Factors associated with worsening in the self-rated health status of Brazilian women who lived with dependent elderly people during the first wave of COVID-19.

The objective is to analyze the factors associated with the worsening of the self-rated health (SRH) of Brazilian women who live with elderly people with functional dependence (EFD) during the first wave of COVID-19. ConVid - Behavior Research was used as a data source. For the analysis, the group of women who lived with EFD was compared with those who lived with the elderly without any dependence.

Factors associated with the incidence and worsening of back pain during the first wave of COVID-19 in Brazil.

The article aims to estimate the incidence and worsening of back pain (BP) during the first wave of COVID-19 in Brazil, as well as to investigate demographic, socioeconomic factors and associated changes in living conditions. ConVid - Behavior Research, applied between April and May 2020, was used as data source. The number and distribution of respondents who developed BP and those who had a worsening of the preexisting problem, their 95% confidence intervals and Pearson's Chi-square test were estimated.

[Homecare of elderly Brazilians with functional dependency: inequalities and challenges during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic].

The article aims to analyze the pandemic's effect on the burden of care for elderly persons with functional dependency according to the presence of hired caregivers and socioeconomic conditions in the year 2020. Data were obtained from the ConVid - Behavior Survey of 2020. We calculated the percentage distribution and prevalence of the population living with elderly persons with functional dependency during the COVID-19 pandemic according to sex, race/color, and income.

[Trend and inequality in the completeness of information on race/color in deaths of elderly in the Mortality Information System in Brazil, 2000 to 2015].

The quality of information on race/color is a necessary condition for knowing the impact of inequality on mortality. This study aims to analyze the trend and inequality in completeness of race/color in death records of elderly in Brazil's Mortality Information System (SIM in Portuguese) from 2000 to 2015. The study analyzes the completeness of this variable according to different geographic areas, the race or color most affected by poor completeness of records, and the association between excellent completion of race/color and the municipalities' territoriality and socioeconomic status.

Chronic low back pain treatment in Brazil: inequalities and associated factors.

Chronic low back pain (LBP) is one of the most common diseases in the world and one of the leading causes of years of life lost due to disability. Despite being a major public health concern, studies on access to and use of different types of treatment are scarce. The aim of this article is to describe the most common treatments for chronic LBP in Brazil, examine the factors associated with the use of these treatments, and discuss possible inequalities in the use of physical therapy/exercise and medications.