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1. Conditional cash transfers and adolescent mental health in Brazil: Evidence from the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort

   JOURNAL OF GLOBAL HEALTH, v.11, article ID 04066, 12p, 2021

   Background Young people living in poverty are at higher risk of mental disorders, but whether interventions aimed to reduce poverty have lasting effects on mental health has not been well established. We examined whether exposure to Brazil's conditional cash transfers programme (CCT), Bolsa Famil...

2. Mapping inequalities in exclusive breastfeeding in low- and middle-income countries, 2000-2018

   NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR, v.5, n.8, p.1027-+, 2021

3. Socio-environmental determinants of the delay in the first dental visit: results of two population-based cohort studies in Brazil

   BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH, v.54, n.1, article ID e10161, 11p, 2021

   The objective of this study was to describe the timing of the first dental visit and investigate the association of socioeconomic and behavioral factors with dental visit delay among 10/11-year-old children from two live-birth population cohorts with extremely contrasting socioeconomic profiles. ...

4. Patient needs four years after first psychiatric hospitalization in a Brazilian cohort

   BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH, v.54, n.8, article ID e11447, 10p, 2021

   Knowledge about the needs of psychiatric patients is essential for mental health care planning. However, research on met and unmet needs is still scarce, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This study aimed to describe the patients' needs (met and unmet) at least four years after th...

5. Global, regional, and national progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 for neonatal and child health: all-cause and cause-specific mortality findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   LANCET, v.398, n.10303, p.870-905, 2021

   Background Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 has targeted elimination of preventable child mortality, reduction of neonatal death to less than 12 per 1000 livebirths, and reduction of death of children younger than 5 years to less than 25 per 1000 livebirths, for each country by 2030. To understan...

6. Examining the dynamics between young people's mental health, poverty and life chances in six low- and middle-income countries: protocol for the CHANCES-6 study

   SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY, v.56, n.9, p.1687-1703, 2021

   Purpose Poverty and poor mental health are closely related and may need to be addressed together to improve the life chances of young people. There is currently little evidence about the impact of poverty-reduction interventions, such as cash transfer programmes, on improved youth mental health a...

7. Redecin Brazil: constructing the methodology of a multicentric study to evaluate the care network for people with disabilities

   INTERFACE-COMUNICACAO SAUDE EDUCACAO, v.25, article ID e200767, 16p, 2021

   This article presents the methodological path of the Redecin study - Evaluation of the Implementation of the Care Network for People with Disabilities (RCPCD) in Brazil. We conducted a multicentric cross-sectional study adopting a hybrid design involving quantitative instruments (document analysi...

8. In the Era of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, Affordability Is a Limiting Factor for Patients' Access to Innovative Cancer Treatments

   VALUE IN HEALTH REGIONAL ISSUES, v.20, p.47-50, 2019

   Background: Over the past 5 years, 55 new anticancer drugs have been launched worldwide. Considering the increasing costs of innovative treatments, both the number and the relevance of cost-effectiveness analyses have increased, meaningfully supporting decision making by stakeholders and policy m...

9. Integrating youth mental health into cash transfer programmes in response to the COVID-19 crisis in low-income and middle-income countries

   LANCET PSYCHIATRY, v.8, n.4, p.340-346, 2021

   Social protection measures can play an important part in securing livelihoods and in mitigating short-term and longterm economic, social, and mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, cash transfer programmes are currently being adapted or expanded in various low-income and m...

10. Race and obesity in the black female population: a scoping review

    SAUDE E SOCIEDADE, v.29, n.3, article ID e191003, 10p, 2020

    About 40% of the world's population is overweight. Obesity is most prevalent among social strata with lower income and education. Although the association between sociodemographic factors and weight gain is well documented, few researchers associated obesity with race/color. This article aims to ...