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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Medicina (FM) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Graduated in Medicine from the Federal University of Bahia (1994), master's degree (1997) and doctorate (2001) in Public Health from the Federal University of Bahia. She is a PhD professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo (USP). Between 2013 and 2020 she was coordinator of the Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization, of the Center for the Study of Violence at USP, in the area of violence and violence prevention. Between 2002 and 2020 she was a researcher associated with the Center for the Study of Violence at USP, acting as a research coordinator between 2006 and 2010. Member of the Violence Prevention Alliance, of the Brazilian Association of Public Health (ABRASCO) and of the ABRASCO Violence and Health WG. She has experience in the field of Public Health, with an emphasis on Epidemiology, acting mainly on the following themes: homicides, adolescence and youth, prevention of violence. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Although the international literature consistently demonstrates the importance of theoretical models that consider the effect of individual, situational and contextual risk factors for violent behaviour among adolescents , in Brazil there are no studies from this perspective using multilevel analytical models. This project has three main objectives: 1) To estimate the prevalence of viole…
Studies about health and quality of life of medical students are quite common in the national and international literature. Besides the aspects related to the structure of medical course and individual characteristics of the students, emphasis has been given to the quality of the relationships in the academic environment, a theme that has not been studied in Brazilian universities. In Bra…
Childhood bullying in any role (i.e., as a bully, victim, or bully-victim) has persistent and pervasive negative health consequences across the life span. However, the majority of studies is limited by conceptual and methodological issues. The proposed project aims to address some of these shortcomings by using novel approaches to understanding the complex nature of bullying involvement. …
Adolescence is a human development stage characterized by physiological and socioemotional transitions that impact health outcomes throughout life. Behaviors adopted by individuals during this period are also subject to significant changes that may lead to health risks. Besides individual features, family and peer relationships play a role in adolescents' Health Risk Behaviors (HRB). Cont…
The project aims to analyze the quality of information about police lethality in the city of São Paulo from 2013 to 2015 through the analysis of the category Legal Intervention and War Operations (Y35 and Y36) of the International Classification of Disease -10) and of the POlice records (Boletim de ocorrência) (BO) categorized as Self-Resistance and Homicide Due to Police Activity. Based …
The overall objective of the project is to qualitatively explore the social representations of community health agents (ACS) and of the manager of Primary Care Health Unit with Family Health Strategy (ESF) about the presence of community violence in the territory where they operate, and to verify whether there is some sort of interference of this phenomenon in relation to their work in an…
Studies about the health and quality of life of medical students are quite common in the national and international literature. Besides the aspects related to the structure of the medical courses and individual characteristics of the students, emphasis has been given to the quality of the relationships in the academic environment, a theme that has not been studied in Brazilian universitie…
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The occurrence of risk behaviors during adolescence is associated with several negative health and developmental outcomes, highlighting the importance of understanding factors influencing such behaviors. Given the intricate nature of these influences, the school environment emerges as a critical arena for examining these dynamics. This research proposal aims to further one the objectives …
In the late 1990s the homicide mortality rate (TMH) began to show a downward trend in Sao Paulo but still today we cannot know for sure the determinants of this reduction. Part of the difficulty in understanding this movement lies in the fact that the studies are limited to short time series and do not use comparative approaches. A closer look on the evolution of homicides in Brazil shows…
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