Epidemiologia y contrahegemonia

A glossary for health inequalities

“…Measuring and monitoring health inequities can never be devoid of normative content, and accordingly priority must be given to analysing inequalities between groups constituted under social and historical criteria. 2 …”

“…T he burgeoning field of health inequalities research has given rise to many questions and debates about definitions of concepts, analytical strategies, interpretation of findings, and explanatory models. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Any glossary for health inequalities therefore must go further than simply defining terms and concepts-it must also acknowledge and discuss controversies in the field. The following glossary is neither intended to be a comprehensive treatment of this subject, nor an exhaustive list of textbook definitions.…”

Socioeconomic determinants of schistosomiasis in an urban area in the Northeast of Brazil

“…He argues that causal determination (determination of the effect by the efficient (external) cause) is only one among several categories of determination that occur in real processes. His views are behind the theoretical conceptualization of the work of epidemiologists (2)(3)(4). Weed (2), for instance, claims that an exclusive focus on cause may restrict the critical testing process and then may limit the ability of epidemiology to explain disease in all its complexity.…”

Estado nutricional de crianças e relações de trabalho da família em uma comunidade rural do Paraná, Brasil

“…A tendência mais recente é avaliá-lo através da inserção na produção (Barros, 1986;Breilh, 1980;Laurell, 1983).…”