Inequality, social mobility and nutritional status in brazil

• Grant number: 08/02587-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2008
• End date: February 28, 2010
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Nutrition - Nutritional Analysis of Population
• Principal Investigator: Wolney Lisboa Conde
• Grantee: Larissa Galastri Baraldi
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Saúde Pública (FSP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Introduction: The relation between social mobility and health has been studied in many countries. In Brazil,in general, the relation between health and social classes is usually studied from the point of inequality, thereby focusing only in one manifestation of this complex relationship. The analysis of the several possibilities of movement in the socioeconomic structure and their association with health, and more specifically with nutrition, demands further studies which address the influencing factors and their vectors in this process more broadly.Objective: To assess the association between nutritional states and social mobility in Brazil in two different periods between 1970 and 2000.Methodology: The population of study will comprise young adults and their parents in three national surveys: ENDEF (1974/75), PNSN (1989) and POF (2002/03). Firstly, nutritional status socioeconomic characteristics and demographic profile of the families selected from the three surveys will be described. Then, the intergeneration associations between social and anthropometric indicators in each survey will be analysed according to social classes. The trend of social mobility will be compared in the periods between 1974/75 to 1989 and 1989 to 2002/03.Key words: Social Mobility , nutritional status , educational status.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

BARALDI, Larissa Galastri. Inequalities, social mobility and health nutrition in Brazil. 2010. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Saúde Pública (FSP/CIR) São Paulo.