CV Lattes
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Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus São Paulo. Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Graduated in Medicine from the Federal University of São Paulo (1983), Master's degree (1993), and Ph.D. (1997) in Psychiatry and Medical Psychology from the Federal University of São Paulo. Postdoctoral research at the University of Queensland, Australia (1999). Directed the Applied Methodology and Statistics Unit from 2001 to 2019. Currently an associate professor at the Federal University of São Paulo. Has experience in the field of Public Health, with emphasis on the following topics: mental health, health services, service evaluation, population surveys, and mental disorders. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The problem: The services evaluation process is complex and involves a series of controls. In this project we are opting to study the needs of patients suffering from serious mental health disorders. The option for measuring their needs is based on the idea that the Public Health System, including that of mental health, presupposes an installed assistance structure that would potentially…
The Composite International Diagnostic Interview 2.1 (CIDI 2.1) is a standard structured questionnaire developed by the OMS that when applied by trained law interviewer generates diagnosis using the diagnostic criteria of the International Classification of Illnesses in its tenth version (ICD-10). It has showed to be a useful tool for clinical studies and epidemiologists in the whole worl…
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Affective disorders are very disabling psychiatric illnesses. Both major depression (MD) and bipolar affective disorder (BAD), are repeatedly under-diagnosed and inadequately treated, resulting in a large number of chronic and refractory patients. In the following and evaluation of these patients are using some methodological tools. The Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAM-D) is the …
Major depressive disorder is an important public health problem because it is prevalent and the high degree of disability. Much of this impairment is related to the patient's clinical condition. Epidemiological studies generally identify cases, but do not study their clinical condition. This would be possible by measures of well-being, because follow-up studies of clinical patients have s…
Epidemiological studies on prison populations have demonstrated close correlation between mental disorders and criminal behavior. The type of crime is, in this context, as an important factor in the evaluation of psychiatric and criminal profile of prisoners. Some studies claim that the greater the severity of mental disorder, the more violent criminal behavior tends to be. This project a…
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