positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong …

This paper analyzes the direct and indirect impacts of Brazil's Family Health Program. We estimate the effects of the … program on mortality and on household behavior related to child labor and schooling, employment of adults, and fertility. We … find consistent effects of the program on reductions in mortality throughout the age distribution, but mainly at earlier …

deaths in Brazil, in its macro-regions and Federative Units (UF) in the period 2011-2013. Data from the Mortality Information …Violence against women is a problem of great magnitude and relevance in Brazil, which has death as its more extreme … expression. This study aimed to estimate corrected female mortality rates due to assault and to describe the profile of these …

first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond (1986) show a strong positive relationship between infant mortality rates in … average effects conceal underlying heterogeneity: we examine if the infant mortality effect offsets or reinforces one … genetic risk for developing heart disease. Put differently, in areas with the lowest infant mortality rates, the effect of one …

and additional mortality due to the pandemic. Both pandemics and nonpharmaceutical interventions to fight pandemics …

disabled men? To answer these questions, we used data from a sample of men aged 18-65 working in Brazil's private sector to … policy makers in Brazil when allocating resources to support people with disabilities. …