There is evidence that behavioral and lifestyle changes, encouraged by the Protestant churches in Brazil (especially Pentecostals and Neo-Pentecostals), are positively associated with variables such as health and income, which are, in their turn, considered into the Human Development Index (HDI)...

A consensus has not yet emerged about the relationship between budget deficit, external deficit and national saving. According to mainstream economic literature, the budget deficit can cause an insufficiency of national saving for a given investment rate. In such cases, the investment rate will...

Introduction: The aging of the Brazilian population brings out the question about rising health expenditures, which are dependent not only on the age structure, but also on the expenditure distribution by age, which, on its turn, is related to the epidemiological profile by age and on the...

The aim of this study was to analyze the influence of loneliness among the elderly, 60 and over, living alone in Belo Horizonte (Brazil). The study is based on the results of forty in-depth interviews conducted between May and July, 2007. The analysis of the interviews allowed for the...

The present study characterized the States of Brazil in relation to factors related to work injuries. Data came from the Anuário Estatístico de Acidentes do Trabalho (AEAT), 2004. A description of the data was made and the multivariate method Principal Components Analysis was used. Three...

In Brazil and all over the world, in parallel with the demographic transition, due to advances in medicine and health care, there has been an increase in the life expectancy and longevity of the elderly. This combination of factors causes changes in the pattern of morbidity and mortality which...

This note presents a brief historical review of the food issue in Brazil, in order to allow understanding how the initial process of food production, regional differences and the development of public policies for the food supply contributed to the current food situation in Brazil. Major...