Being born and growing up in the Ribeirão Preto and São Luís cohorts
Braz. j. med. biol. res
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54(1): e11274, 2021.
Article
in English
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ABSTRACT
This thematic issue consists of 14 articles derived from studies of the BRISA birth cohort (Ribeirão Preto, State of São Paulo and São Luís, State of Maranhão, northeastern Brazil, a socially and economically less developed region). In these more than 40 years of existence, these cohorts have been able to document the increase in women's education, the improvement of health conditions, the creation of a public Unified Health System (SUS) that provides universal and free access to health care, eradication of hunger, and transition of the nutritional status characterized by a decrease in malnutrition rates and an increase in obesity in Brazil. Particularly in reproductive health, the country experienced a significant drop in fertility, a decrease in maternal and child mortality, and an increase in breastfeeding rates. Universal access to prenatal care and hospital delivery was accompanied by an excessive number of cesareans without clinical indication and early-term births and premature births, largely due to scheduled cesareans. Articles with a longitudinal and transversal methodological approach are presented, using structural equation analysis and propensity score, together with multivariate regressions, which gave a robust analytical treatment to articles in this thematic issue.
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Main subject:
Breast Feeding
Type of study:
Etiology study
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Incidence study
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Observational study
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Risk factors
Limits:
Child
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Female
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Humans
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Pregnancy
Country/Region as subject:
South America
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Brazil
Language:
English
Journal:
Braz. j. med. biol. res
Journal subject:
Biology
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Medicine
Year:
2021
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Institution/Affiliation country:
Departamento de Epidemiologia e Métodos Quantitativos em Saúde, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sérgio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz/BR
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