Publications by authors named "Renzo Joel Flores-Ortiz"
Article Synopsis
- The study aims to assess the impact of Brazil's Minha Casa Minha Vida housing program on cardiovascular disease mortality and the incidence of infectious diseases like leprosy and tuberculosis.
- Researchers will utilize administrative data from the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort and various health registries to compare individuals who received housing through the program with those who did not.
- The research has ethical approval and will use anonymized data, with findings intended for publication in reputable journals and communication to policymakers.
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged researchers and policy makers to identify public safety measures forpreventing the collapse of healthcare systems and reducingdeaths. This narrative review summarizes the available evidence on the impact of social distancing measures on the epidemic and discusses the implementation of these measures in Brazil. Articles on the effect of social distancing on COVID-19 were selected from the PubMed, medRXiv and bioRvix databases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aims to examine the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and the functional performance of elderly people living in the Belo Horizonte metropolitan area, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Data of a representative sample of 2,033 elderly were analyzed using quantile regression. Functional performance was measured by the number of activities of daily living (ADL) the elderly had difficulty to perform.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To estimate the association between maternal socioeconomic factors and the occurrence of nutritional outcomes in children under five years of age in a representative sample of the Brazilian population.
Methods: This was a cross-sectional study that evaluated data from the latest National Survey of Children and Women's Demographics and Health, carried out in Brazil in 2006-2007. Maternal employment and maternal level of schooling were the main exposures.