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Research Brief
Workplace Accidents in Brazil Are Significantly Underreported: Inspection issues and informal workplaces make it difficult to determine true safety levels
Discusses why workplace accidents are severely underreported in Brazil and the issues that make it difficult to determine true safety levels, and makes recommendations for improving the situation.
Jul 22, 2015
Journal Article
Intake of Water and Different Beverages in Adults Across 13 Countries
Describes the intake of water and all other fluids and to evaluate the proportion of adults exceeding the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendations on energy intake from free sugar, solely from fluids.
Jul 10, 2015
Journal Article
Total Fluid Intake and Its Determinants: Cross-Sectional Surveys Among Adults in 13 Countries Worldwide
There were considerable differences in total fluid intake between countries but not between genders.
Jul 10, 2015
Journal Article
Total Fluid Intake of Children and Adolescents: Cross-Sectional Surveys in 13 Countries Worldwide
A high proportion of children and adolescents are at risk of an inadequate fluid intake. This risk is especially high in males and adolescents when compared with females or children categories.
Jul 10, 2015
Research Brief
Evaluating conditional cash transfer programmes: The case of Bolsa Familia
Summary of report examining factors affecting quality of implementation of the conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme Bolsa Familia.
Apr 30, 2015
Commentary
Paying People to Change Behavior in the UK: Lessons from Latin America
Policymakers in Western countries seeking new policy levers to tackle costly lifestyle behaviors in the age of austerity may do well to take up programs based on cash incentives. Recent analysis of conditional payment programs in Latin America highlights some useful lessons.
Mar 30, 2015
Journal Article
Making the Invisible, Visible: A Cross-Sectional Study of Late Presentation to HIV/AIDS Services Among Men Who Have Sex with Men from a Large Urban Center of Brazil
Late presentation to testing, treatment and continued care has detrimental impacts on the health of HIV-positive individuals as well as their sexual partners' health.
Mar 9, 2015
Report
Understanding the factors that matter in the implementation of Bolsa Família: Using an analysis of federal datasets to look inside the programme's 'black box'
This report aims to promote a greater understanding of how the 'black box' of implementation in a conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme interacts with the quality of implementation.
Jan 28, 2015
Commentary
Increase Funds for Quality
In India, perhaps if the funds that are needed are put in with the help of philanthropists like Shiv Nadar, Azim Premji or Rajendra Pawar, it may be possible to build world class universities, writes Rafiq Dossani.
Apr 15, 2013
Journal Article
Addiction Research Centres and the Nurturing of Creativity: RAND's Drug Policy Research Center
This paper provides a look back at the creation, evolution and growth of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center (DPRC).
Feb 7, 2011
Journal Article
Changes in Diarrheal Disease and Treatment Among Brazilian Children from 1986 to 1996
This paper examines changes in diarrhea prevalence and treatment in Brazil between 1986 and 1996 and concludes that policies to prevent the disease should be targeted at disadvantaged socioeconomic groups.
Feb 1, 2011
Journal Article
Theory and Method at the Intersection of Anthropology and Cultural Neuroscience
Exploring the intersection of neuroscience and anthropology can productively inform our understanding of the relationship between human brains and their socio-cultural contexts.
Jan 1, 2010
Journal Article
Deteccao De Doencas Sexualmente Transmissiveis Em Ambientes Clínicos E Nao Clinicos Na Cidade De Salvador, Bahia, Brasil =: Screening of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Clinical and Non-Clinical Settings in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Screening in non-clinical settings in Brazil is feasible and has a high yield among young adults in low-income communities.
Feb 1, 2006
Journal Article
The Prevalence of Diarrheal Disease Among Brazilian Children: Trends and Differentials from 1986 to 1996
In this paper, the authors examine trends and differentials in diarrhea prevalence and treatment in Brazil between 1986 and 1996.
Jan 1, 2005
Report
Trends in Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality in Developing Countries: The Case of Child Survival in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Mother's education emerged as the key factor underlying socioeconomic inequalities in under-five mortality even as levels of education for women increased and inequality in schooling fell.
Jan 1, 2004
Report
Urbanization, Development, and Under-Five Mortality Differentials by Place of Residence in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1970-1991
This paper examines the differentials in under-five mortality for the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, between urban and rural areas and by location within urban areas over a 21-year period between 1970 and 1991.
Jan 1, 2004
Journal Article
Does It Matter Who Answers the Race Question? Racial Classification and Income Inequality in Brazil
Using novel data from a 1995 national survey in Brazil, we find that the estimates of racial income inequality based on self-classification are lower than those based on interviewer classification.
Nov 1, 1998