O médico que fortaleceu a estatística no Brasil

Em 9 de maio de 1826, como resultado dos debates da primeira legislatura do Brasil imperial, definiu-se a criação de uma Comissão de Estatística, sob o argumento irrefutável do senador Francisco de As...

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Estimates of Under-Five Mortality From a Mobile Phone Survey During the COVID-19 Outbreak: An Observational Study Comparing Three Instruments in Malawi | Demography | Duke University Press

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The Emergence of an Urban Mortality Advantage in Brazil: An Assessment of Age and Causes-of-Death Contributions to the Urban–Rural Mortality Gap - Journal of Urban Health

Brazil has historically seen higher mortality among urban residents compared to rural counterparts, despite better self-reported health among urban residents and better access to healthcare services. However, recent trends in these urban–rural mortality differentials and the specific causes of death contributing to them have not been well documented. We address this gap by analyzing trends in adult life expectancy in Brazil’s five macro-regions from 2006 to 2023. We decompose changes in the life expectancy gap by age, sex, and cause of death. Our findings reveal an emerging urban advantage in male life expectancy in Brazil, beginning in the mid-2000s and continuing until the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. For females, a small initial urban survival penalty had shifted to an urban advantage by 2019. The North and Northeast regions showed larger urban penalties for both sexes than the southern regions. For males, the emerging urban life expectancy advantage was primarily driven by a more rapid decrease in mortality from external causes among urban residents aged 20–39. For females, the urban advantage was fueled by relative gains in mortality from neoplasms, respiratory diseases, and external causes. The COVID-19 pandemic initially widened the urban mortality penalty or narrowed the urban advantage in 2020 due to higher COVID-19 mortality in urban areas. However, this trend reversed from 2021 to 2023, as the urban penalty in COVID-19 mortality turned into an urban advantage, reversing the relative gains seen in rural areas.

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US-Born and Foreign-born Life Expectancy by Race and Hispanic Origin before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States

Interdisciplinary health scholarship has long documented the lower mortality of the foreign-born compared to the US-born populations. In this study, w…

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Attitudes on an Interconnected World

How close do people feel to others around the world? How much do they want their countries involved in international affairs? A recent 24-nation survey explores these questions.

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The Demography of Shocks: Migration and Mortality under the Influence of Environmental and Epidemiological Shocks

This dissertation makes three scientific contributions to the understanding of how human populations react to environmental and epidemiological shocks. The first chapter investigates the impact of tro...

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Demographic Research - Data errors in mortality estimation: Formal demographic analysis of under-registration, under-enumeration, and age misreporting (Volume 51 - Article 9 | Pages 229–266)

Volume 51 - Article 9 | Pages 229–266

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Estimation and probabilistic projection of age- and sex-specific mortality rates across Brazilian municipalities between 2010 and 2030 - Population Health Metrics

Background Mortality rate estimation in small areas can be difficult due the low number of events/exposure (i.e. stochastic error). If the death records are not completed, it adds a systematic uncerta...

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