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Neglected diseases in Portuguese-speaking countries, an analysis of Leprosy acc...
Carvalho Malta, Deborah; O. Martins, Maria do Rosário; Teixeira, Renato Azeredo; U. Ferreira, Marcelo; Nagavi, MohsenIntroduction: Leprosy persists as a public health problem in most countries of the Portuguese Speaking Community. Objective: To analyze time series of incidence, prevalence and years of life ordered according to disability (YLD) associated with leprosy in the population of CPLP countries, in addition to comparing the performance of countries according to sociodemographic indices, using data from the Global Burd...
Social distancing, feeling of sadness and lifestyles of the Brazilian populatio...
Carvalho Malta, Deborah; Saar Gomes, Crizian; Landmann Szwarcwald, Célia; Berti de Azevedo Barros, Marilisa; Gomes da Silva, AlannaThe COVID-19 pandemic has had biopsychosocial impacts on individual and collective health. The aim of the study was to analyze adherence to social distance, the repercussions on mood and changes in the lifestyles of the Brazilian adult population during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a cross-sectional study with adult individuals living in Brazil (n = 45,161) who participated in the virtual hea...
Evaluation of the achievement of the goals of the Strategic Action Plan for Cop...
Carvalho Malta, Deborah; Gomes da Silva, Alanna; Azeredo Teixeira, Renato; Eloah Machado, Isís; Santana Coelho, Marta Roberta; Hartz, Zulmira M. A.Objective: to evaluate the achievement of targets for mortality rates and prevalence of exposure to risk and protection factors defined in the Strategic Action Plan for Coping with Noncommunicable Diseases in Brazil, 2011-2022. Methods: evaluative study, analyzing trends in mortality and risk factors for NCD according to data from the Global Burden of Disease and the Vigitel survey. Linear regression and it was...
Human resources training in health: challenges and opportunities
Carvalho Malta, Deborah; Sidat, Mohsin Mahomed; Feuerwerker, Laura Camargo Macruz; Pinto, Patrícia Rosado; Fresta, Mario; Hartz, Zulmira M. A.Objective: to analyze the challenges in the formation of the workforce, emphasison the medical category, that respond to the new needs generated by the demographic, epidemiological transition, by the new technological incorporations and demands of the users of the health services in Portuguese speaking countries. Methods: the paper based on literature review, the reading of the preparatory documents for t...
Context to the influence of evaluations: An essay on meta-evaluation with usefu...
Carvalho Malta, Deborah; Gomes da Silva, Alanna; Sá Guerreiro, Cátia; Hartz, Zulmira M. A.Objective: to systematize the meta-evaluation methodology in its conceptual and operational aspects to facilitate its use in health management practices. Methods: this is an essay on meta-evaluation. The theoretical bases were searched in books and articles, published between 1991 and 2018, that approached the conceptual, methodological and operational aspects of the meta-evaluation. Results: the meta-evaluatio...
Evaluation of the health-related targets of the Sustainable Development Goals i...
Carvalho Malta, Deborah; Cardoso, Laís Santos de Magalhães; Azeredo Teixeira, Renato; de Carvalho, Quéren Hapuque; Pinto Ribeiro, AntónioIntroduction: In the context of the Sustainable Development Goals, it is important to monitor the performance of the signatory countries. Objective: This study aims at analyzing the Sustainable Development Goals’s health indicators for 2017 and projections for 2030 estimated by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, regarding the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries. Materials and methods:...