Are heart attacks deadlier on weekends? Evidence of weekend effect in Brazil.

This article aims to examine the effects of weekend admission on in-hospital mortality for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in Brazil. Information from the Hospital Information System of the Unified Health System (SIH/SUS) of urgently admitted patients diagnosed with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) between 2008 and 2018 was used, made available through the Hospital Admission Authorization (AIH). Multivariable logistic regression models, controlling for observable patient characteristics, hospital characteristics and year and hospital-fixed effects, were used.

How is smoking distributed in relation to socioeconomic status? Evidence from Brazil in the years 2013 and 2019.

The present study aimed to analyze income-related inequality in tobacco consumption in Brazil using data from the National Health Survey at two points in time (2013 and 2019). This study contributes to the growing literature analyzing socioeconomic inequalities in tobacco use by investigating income-related inequalities in the consumption of different tobacco products in Brazil. The inequality measure is the concentration index with an Erreygers correction (EI), and the analysis of its decomposition allows the identification of the factors that determine such inequality.

Association between rural workers' sociodemographic and reproductive characteristics and their reproductive autonomy.

Objectives: to verify the association between sociodemographic and reproductive characteristics with rural workers' reproductive autonomy.

Methods: a cross-sectional study, with a sample of 346 women and application of the Reproductive Autonomy Scale. Multinomial regression was performed to analyze associations between independent variables and outcomes.

Socioeconomic inequality in health in older adults in Brazil.

Objective: This study analyzed socioeconomic inequality in self-rated health for older adults (aged fifty or over) in Brazil.

Methods: Data from the 2015-2016 Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSI-Brazil). Socioeconomic inequality in self-rated health was measured using the concentration index, which was decomposed to analyze the contribution of different factors.

Does greater unemployment make people thinner in Brazil?

The study seeks to analyze the impact of macroeconomic conditions on weight measures, such as BMI, overweight, obesity, and severe obesity in Brazil. We examine this relationship in the specific context of a middle-income country that differs in many aspects from the high-income countries usually considered in the literature. The study uses the microdata of VIGITEL in the period from 2006 to 2014 and the state unemployment rate as a proxy for macroeconomic conditions.

Socioeconomic inequalities in obesity in Brazil.

The aim of this work was to analyze the socioeconomic inequality in overweight and obesity for the Brazilian adult population and to determine the factors that contribute the most to the observed inequality. Data from the 2013 National Health Survey (Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde - PNS) were used and the inequality was calculated using the concentration index, which was decomposed to analyze the contribution of different factors (demographic, schooling, lifestyle, sanitation, among others). The analyses were stratified by gender and region, in order to identify some heterogeneity.

Economic crises, child mortality and the protective role of public health expenditure.

The aim of the study was to analyze how economic crises affect child health globally and between subgroups of countries with different levels of income. Data from the World Bank and the World Health Organization were used for 127 countries between 1995 and 2014. A fixed effects model was used, evaluating the effect of the change on macroeconomic indicators (GDP per capita, unemployment and inflation rates and misery index) in neonatal, infant and under-five mortality rates.

Association of risk behaviours, socio-economic characteristics and academic progress in adolescents: an analysis of the 1993 birth cohort in Pelotas, Brazil.

To analyze how socio-economic factors and behavioural characteristics are related to the failure of academic progress. Data of the 1993 Birth Cohort of the city of Pelotas, Brazil, were analyzed using four follow-up waves. As a measure of the failure of academic progress, we used indicators of the age-grade gap.

A gender analysis of the impact of physical education on the mental health of brazilian schoolchildren.

This paper investigates the effect of attending physical education classes on mental health indicators - loneliness and insomnia - of Brazilian schoolchildren. The identification strategy consists of separating the sample into two parts: people who practice physical activity and who attend physical education classes at school and people who, despite not attending physical education classes, practice physical activities. The data are from the 2015 National Adolescent School-based Health Survey (PeNSE), and the sample pairing method is the Propensity Score Matching with robustness analysis using the Bivariate Probit method and the sensitivity is tested using the method developed by Ichino, Mealli, and Nannicini (2008).

The sociodemographic, behavioral, reproductive, and health factors associated with fertility in Brazil.

High fertility rates among disadvantaged subgroups are a public health problem because fertility levels significantly affect socioeconomic conditions and a population's welfare. This paper aims to analyze the sociodemographic, behavioral, and reproductive factors associated with fertility rates among Brazilian women aged between 15-49 years. A Poisson regression was used to analyze data from the 2006 PNDS (Pesquisa Nacional de Demografia e Saúde da Criança e da Mulher), which evaluates socioeconomic, demographic, geographic, reproductive, behavioral, and chronic disease variables.