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| Author(s): |
Larissa Galastri Baraldi
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Saúde Pública (FSP/CIR) |
| Defense date: | 2010-10-04 |
| Examining board members: |
Wolney Lisbôa Conde;
Leonor Maria Pacheco Santos;
Jose Maria Pacheco de Souza
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| Advisor: | Wolney Lisbôa Conde |
| 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. Results: The descriptive analysis shows an increase in average schooling and height both between the three periods and between cohorts. The decrease in the correlation of schooling of parents and children between periods shows increase in human capital and social mobility among theese periods. The age-period-cohort regressions models point to the positive development in nutritional status, indicating better socioeconomic conditions and health in childhood. Conclusion: The young adults had higher mean nutrition and education than their parents throughout the period, however there was no linearity of this effect over the birth cohorts or in the correlations favorable to social mobility (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 08/02587-0 - Inequality, social mobility and nutritional status in brazil |
| Grantee: | Larissa Galastri Baraldi |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |