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Health Outcomes of the Bolsa Família Program Among Brazilian Amazonian Children. [PDF]

Revista De Saude Publica, 2020
OBJECTIVE One of the primary objectives of Brazil’s conditional cash transfer program, Bolsa Família, is to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty by improving human capital via conditionalities.
Fernanda Cobayashi, Bárbara Hatzlhoffer Lourenço, Marly Augusto Cardoso   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Female Empowerment of Amazonian Riverine Beneficiaries of the Bolsa Família Program

Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships, 2017
Today, policies of combat to poverty prioritize women as owners in programs of income transference, among them, Bolsa Família Program. Considering that women empowerment is influenced by this social policy, this research aimed to identify the dimensions of the process of empowerment achieved by riparian women, beneficiary of the program.
Thamyris Maués dos Santos, Brenda Nunes, Fernando Augusto Ramos Pontes, Simone Souza da Costa Silva   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Group Inequality as the Systemic Constraint Hypothesis to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals: Evidence From Mexican Regional Gender Data

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how group inequality operates as a systemic constraint on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Using regional data from 32 Mexican states between 2016 and 2022, gender‐disaggregated indicators were constructed across nine SDGs to explore cross‐goal interlinkages.
Aurelie Charles, Tom Winstone
wiley   +1 more source

POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
wiley   +1 more source

Socioeconomic Factors, Dental Service Use and Clusters of Oral Health Conditions in Brazilian Five‐Year‐Old Children

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives To investigate the association of sociodemographic characteristics and dental service utilisation with clusters of oral health conditions among Brazilian five‐year‐old children. Methods Secondary data on five‐year‐old children (N = 4354) from the Brazilian National Oral Health Survey (SB Brasil 2023) were analysed.
Pedro Henrique Duarte França de Castro, Maria Augusta Bessa Rebelo, Mario Vianna Vettore   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Socioeconomic Inequalities and Oral Health Among Adults and Elderly People in Rural Riverside Communities in the Amazon, Brazil

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives To examine the extent to which socioeconomic and environmental characteristics are associated with oral health outcomes among adults and elderly people living in rural riverside communities in the Brazilian Amazon. The study also examined the mediating role of self‐reported dental status and reason for the last dental visit in these
Emmanuelle de Fátima Noberto Bezerra, Ana Paula Corrêa de Queiroz Herkrath, Fernando José Herkrath, Luiza Garnelo, Sully de Souza Sampaio, Mario Vianna Vettore   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Female Autonomy in Material and Symbolic Contexts Among Women in Situations of Poverty in Brazil

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores how black women in Brazil navigate intersecting dimensions of race, gender, and socio‐economic status, illustrating the sociocultural factors that shape their daily experiences, with a focus on female autonomy. Drawing on a qualitative design, we conducted semi‐structured interviews with 97 women, of whom 77 self ...
Silvana Aparecida Mariano, Márcio Ferreira de Souza, Lina Penati Ferreira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An extended goal programming framework incorporating poverty measures: application to food bank logistics

International Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Food banks play a key role in reducing food insecurity, yet their operations are often constrained by manual and non‐optimised allocation procedures. This study introduces a methodological advance through an extended goal programming model with poverty incorporation (EGP‐PI).
Rhyan C. Rampazo, Dylan F. Jones, Letícia F. Godoi, Mariana O. Iamamoto, Daniela R. Cantane   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of Brazil's Family Health Program on Cognitive Skills

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effect of Brazil's Family Health Program (Programa Saude da Familia, FHP) on cognitive skills (measured by test scores) of fifth‐grade students. We use biennial data from national exams between 2007 and 2015, and variation in the FHP implementation date across municipalities, birth cohort, and test year to identify the ...
Pinar Mine Gunes, Magda Tsaneva
wiley   +1 more source

Health and Survival Impacts of Early Childhood Development Programmes: The Case of the Happy Child Programme in Brazil

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper adds to the growing evidence on the impacts of early childhood development (ECD) programming by examining one of the world's largest home visitation programmes, the Happy Child Programme in Brazil, and its impacts on child vaccination and preventable death rates.
Raquel Tebaldi, Franziska Gassmann, Bruno Martorano   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source