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Ayesha Sheikh; Jenna Jacob; Panos Vostanis; Florence Ruby; Inga Spuerck; Milos Stankovic; Nicholas Morgan; Catarina Pinheiro Mota; Rúben Ferreira; Seyda Eruyar; Elmas Aybike Yilmaz; Syeda Zeenat Fatima; Julian Edbrooke-Childs – Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 2024
Research demonstrates that young people value mental health support that is tailored to their needs and preferences, rather than a "one size fits all" offer, which is often not equitably accessible (National Children's Bureau, 2021). Understanding young people's lived experiences across different sociocultural contexts is important. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mental Health, Mental Disorders, Cultural Differences
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Pingel, Emily S.; Llovet, Alexandra; Cosentino, Fernando; Lesser, Jeffrey – Health Education & Behavior, 2021
Decreased engagement in preventive services, including vaccination, during the COVID-19 pandemic represents a grave threat to global health. We use the case of the Bom Retiro Public Health Clinic in São Paulo, Brazil, to underscore how continuity of care is not only feasible, but a crucial part of health as a human right. The long-standing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Urban Areas
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Pauli, Jandir; Chambel, Maria José; Capellari, Márcia Rodrigues; Rissi, Vanessa – Higher Education Quarterly, 2018
This research aims to investigate the organisational factors that influence the motivation to work and their consequences on health perception and satisfaction with life for teachers in private Higher Education institutions. The study has emerged as a result of the need to understand the teaching profession in Brazil since the implementation of…
Descriptors: Private Sector, Teacher Attitudes, Quality of Life, Higher Education
Cuff, Patricia A.; Perez, Megan M. – National Academies Press, 2017
An adequate, well-trained, and diverse health care workforce is essential for providing access to quality health care services. However, despite more than a decade of concerted global action to address the health workforce crisis, collective efforts are falling short in scaling up the supply of health workers. The resulting health workforce…
Descriptors: Workshops, Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Supply and Demand
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Gomes-Neto, Joao Batista; And Others – Economics of Education Review, 1997
Exploits a unique data set (EDRURAL) from three northeastern states of Brazil to investigate the complementarities of health with school attainment and cognitive achievement. The promotion models and value-added achievement models demonstrate the value of students' visual acuity. Achievement models highlight the role of good nutrition. Eye…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Developing Nations, Educational Attainment, Elementary Education
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Fontes, Miguel B.; Hillis, Janette; Wasek, Glenn K. – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 1998
Estimated the number of Brazilian children under 14 whose mothers are HIV-positive, living with AIDS, or dead due to AIDS. Found that of the 210,150 children, 17,600 were HIV-positive Findings underscore the urgent need for new programs to increase the longevity of persons with AIDS and to decrease the likelihood of child displacement and severe…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, At Risk Persons, Child Health, Childhood Needs
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Goodman, Anna; Fleitlich-Bilyk, Bacy; Patel, Vikram; Goodman, Robert – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2007
Objective: To identify risk factors for poor child mental health in the southeastern Brazilian municipality of Taubate. Method: In 2001 we carried out a representative school-based survey of Brazilian schoolchildren ages 7 to 14 years (response rate, 83%). We collected extensive data on child mental health and on potential risk and protective…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Public Health, Intelligence Quotient, Health Needs
Grant, James P. – 1984
Breakthroughs in science and social organization could soon be helping to save the lives of half the 40,000 young children who now die every day. They could also prevent several million children a year from becoming mentally or physically disabled. To achieve these goals, local successes showing that a child health revolution is possible must be…
Descriptors: Children, Developing Nations, Educational Needs, Foreign Countries
de Oliveira, Walter – 2000
The street children of Brazil live in unimaginable poverty and squalor, stealing jewelry or selling their bodies to survive, wandering homeless and untaught, pursued by death squads who clean up the streets by washing them with blood. The street youthworkers interviewed for the in-depth study delineated in this book some inspired by the Catholic…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Needs, Foreign Countries, Health Needs
UNICEF News, 1985
Focusing on the multiple roles and situations of the world's women, this collection of articles examines the current status of women, throughout the world. In the first article, "It's Not as Simple as You Think" (John Richardson), women in Brazil and Costa Rica explain issues they face in the struggle to improve their economic and social…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Developing Nations
Boruchovitch, Evely – 1993
This study explores the influence of cognitive development and health self-perception on Brazilian students' beliefs on the causes of health and illness. Ninety-six randomly selected elementary and junior high school students from two schools in the north area of Rio De Janeiro County were interviewed individually by an investigator. Subjects who…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attribution Theory, Child Health, Child Psychology
Boruchovitch, Evely – 1993
Researchers investigated the causal attributions for health and illness among 96 Brazilian elementary school students. Subjects were interviewed individually and their causal attributions were assessed through 14 true-false items (e.g. people stay well because they are lucky). The findings suggest that there may be more cross-cultural similarities…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attribution Theory, Child Health, Child Psychology