Nelson Gouveia has a degree in Medicine (1986) from the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil and an MSc in Epidemiology (1993) and a PhD in Public Health (1998) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine of the University of London, UK. He is currently Professor at the Department of Preventive Medicine of the University of São Paulo Medical School where he teachs basic epidemiologic methods to graduate medical students and environmental epidemiology to post-graduate students. His research interests includes a wide variety of environmental exposures and its health effects such as ambient air pollution and climate change, and the utilization of geographic information systems (GIS) for exposure modeling in environmental epidemiology. He is also interested in the application of results from epidemiologic studies in the public health policy arena. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Although fetal mortality is an increasingly important component of mortality in childhood, it is still insufficiently known, valued and studied as a public health problem, especially through approaches that integrate the biological, epidemiological and social dimensions. The proposed project aims to contribute to decreasing fetal mortality by increasing understanding of the complex networ…
Although fetal mortality is an increasingly important component of mortality in childhood, it is still insufficiently known, valued and studied as a public health problem, especially through approaches that integrate the biological, epidemiological and social dimensions. The proposed project aims to contribute to decreasing fetal mortality by increasing understanding of the complex networ…
Solid waste has become one of the most serious environmental issues of nowadays, since its inadequate management has serious consequences to the environment and to the health of the population and the professionals most directly involved, as the waste pickers. These professionals, besides experiencing exclusion processes in the course of their working life, are also subject to various hea…
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The objective will be to analyze the types of social support received by mothers and families in a situation of fetal loss. The loss of a baby is recognized as a traumatic event and can be accompanied by an important social burden and with effects on the woman's physical and psychological health. One of the possible mediators of this effect may be social capital, defined as the characteri…
Several recent studies have investigated the possible adverse effects of air pollution on pregnancy. Studies in both humans and animals indicate that air pollutants may increase the risk of intrauterine growth retardation, low birth weight, preterm delivery, and birth defects, which in turn are factors that affect infant mortality and morbidity. Currently, in large urban centers, vehicula…
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