Afiliação
Departamento de Medicina Preventiva, Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de São Paulo
Seminários
The Pelotas cohort studies: progress of health indicators over the last three decades
Horário
27.09.2019
das 14:00 às 16:00
Localização
Auditório do ISPUP
Descrição
Pelotas is a medium-sized city in southern Brazil which, in the past 30 years, has been witness to a unique, exceptional and unprecedented phenomenon in Brazilian history: the development of - four population-based birth cohort studies. The first cohort was established in 1982 with the others following in 1993, 2004 and 2015. These studies are the most important population-based birth cohort studies set up in a developing country, with over 24,000 participants, hundreds of follow-ups performed and thousands of variables collected. The objectives of the studies include: to assess pre- and perinatal conditions of all births; to study early life outcomes such as growth, breastfeeding, development, infections and accidents; to investigate the impact of early life exposures on health problems in adolescence and adulthood; to assess access, use and financing of health care; to study inequalities in health conditions and to contribute to the planning of health actions and programs at local, national and international levels. This seminar will describe the main methodological aspects of these studies and examine trends and health inequalities in several maternal and child outcomes.
Oradores
Alicia Matijasevich graduated from the Universidad de la República, Uruguay, with a degree in Medicine (1992) and a specialization in Pediatrics and Neonatology (2002). She obtained a PhD in Epidemiology from the Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil, in 2005. In 2007 she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Social Medicine at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Currently she is an Associate Professor of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. Dr. Matijasevich has conducted research in the area of maternal and child health epidemiology, and inequalities in health and health care, in the context of life cycle studies for more than fifteen years. She works with cohort studies, coordinating several research projects in Brazil. Her research interests include the mental health of mothers and their children, the assessment of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in children and adolescents, and the study of inequalities in health from a life cycle perspective.
