CV Lattes
Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Saúde Pública (FSP) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduate at Ciências Sociais from Universidade de São Paulo (1986) and master's at Collective Health from Universidade de São Paulo (2001). Has experience in Collective Health, focusing on Public Health, acting on the following subjects: município, saúde, descentralização, municipalização and políticas públicas. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Neonatal mortality has gained relevance in public health given the reduction of the postneonatal mortality rate and its impact in the infant mortality rate. Thus, deaths within the hospital began to account for the largest proportion of infant deaths. Some characteristics of mothers and newborn contribute to the increased risk of neonatal death and to demand more complexity of hospital ca…
Perinatal mortality, including fetal and early neonatal deaths, represents an increasing and important component of childhood mortality, but is still insufficiently known, especially in its fetal component, which is one of the most neglected problems in today's global health. Perinatal mortality is an indicator of adequacy of obstetric care during prenatal, birth and newborn periods. Obje…
The increase of the cesarean section has became into an epidemic. In the last 30 years, a group of specialists in reproductive health, during a reunion promoted by the WHO in 1985, declared that "there is no justification for any region in the world have a rate of cesarean section higher than 10-15%". However, Brazil leads this ranking between the countries which most applies this procedu…
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