Publications by authors named "Sabina Lea Davidson Gotlieb"
Objective: The present study investigated the characteristics of women during pregnancy/immediate postpartum cycles and the product of their pregnancy.
Method: Data collection was conducted for a period of three months in 2011, in six maternity hospitals in the State of São Paulo. The data were obtained in an interview with the women after the end of the pregnancy and collected from hospital records.
Introduction: In Brazil, there is a higher male mortality in almost all ages and causes. The objective is to estimate and describe the trend in male mortality, between 1979/2007, in three State Capitals (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre).
Methods: The study populations refer to the residents in the three cities, in 1979/1981, 1990/1992, 1999/2001 and 2005/2007, and their deaths.
Objective: To analyze cause-specific mortality rates according to the relative income hypothesis.
Methods: All 96 administrative areas of the city of São Paulo, southeastern Brazil, were divided into two groups based on the Gini coefficient of income inequality: high (≥0.25) and low (<0.
Effects of flooding of the River Paraná on the temporal activity of Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) darlingi Root (Diptera: Culicidae), at the border state of Mato Grosso do Sul and São Paulo, Brazil.
Rev Soc Bras Med Trop
April 2011
Introduction: Study of the temporal activity of malaria vectors during the implantation of a hydroelectric power station on the River Paraná, intended to generate electrical energy. The river separates the States of São Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul, in Brazil. The objective was to verify whether alterations occurred in the wealth and diversity indices of Anopheles, following two successive floods, extended to the temporal activity and nycthemeral rhythm followed over a five year period.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Support for the adverse effect of high income inequality on population health has come from studies that focus on larger areas, such as the US states, while studies at smaller geographical areas (eg, neighbourhoods) have found mixed results.
Methods: We used propensity score matching to examine the relationship between income inequality and mortality rates across 96 neighbourhoods (distritos) of the municipality of São Paulo, Brazil.
Results: Prior to matching, higher income inequality distritos (Gini ≥ 0.
Introduction: Hydroelectric schemes modify the water flow and cause an impact on mosquito composition, thus justifying investigations. The aim of this study was to study anophelines in the area under the influence of a new lake and to evaluate their relative vulnerability to malaria.
Methods: Anopheles specimens were collected from the edges of the Porto Primavera reservoir, during the phases of reservoir filling until its maximum level was reached.
Objective: To estimate the prevalence of smoking among students and associated factors.
Methods: Secondary data from the Vigescola Survey, conducted in the cities of Curitiba, Florianópolis and Porto Alegre (Southern Brazil) between 2002 and 2004, were used. Sample comprised 3,690 school children, aged between 13 and 15 years, and enrolled in the 7th and 8th grades of primary school and 1st grade of high school, in public and private schools.
[Deaths due to infectious diseases in women: occurrences in pregnancy and puerperium].
Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992)
November 2009
Objective: To describe deaths due to infectious diseases as an underlying or multiple cause, identifying cases of pre-existent infectious diseases or ones developed during pregnancy; deaths due to an indirect obstetric cause and deaths due to Aids or other infectious diseases during pregnancy or post-partum, however difficult to classify.
Methods: RAMOS methodology was adopted (by investigation in the household and medical records of the deceased, a new death certificate was filled out with the real causes concerning deaths of women from 10 to 49 years of age, residents in Brazilian capital cities,during the first semester of 2002.
Results: A total of 7,332 female cases was analyzed, according to underlying and multiple causes of death, of which 917 were due to infectious diseases (mainly Aids and tuberculosis).
One of the main purposes of health information is to help administrative staff and health planners take the best possible decisions for promoting the wellbeing of society. Since 1970, the Brazilian Ministry of Health has been developing and organizing Health Information Systems. This paper presents the progress of the Mortality Information System and the Live Birth Information System since they were first established, building up historical series with accurate figures for these vital events.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Lower extremity amputation is an increasing problem among diabetic patients and an important public health problem. The study purpose was to identify factors associated with lower extremity amputation.
Methods: A matched case-control study was carried out among diabetic patients.
Objective: To evaluate and compare the impact of some underlying causes of death on life expectancy of residents in two metropolitan areas.
Methods: It was carried out a cross-sectional descriptive ecological study based on official data (deaths and populations) and estimates of residents in the cities Salvador and São Paulo, Brazil, in 1996. The impact of different causes of death on life expectancy was evaluated by means of competitive risks and life tables.