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June 26, 2017

Pan American Health Organization

Professor Victora participated at PAHO Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas in Costa Rica. The Comission is working in a report to be presented in 2018. The recommendations are to reduce or eliminate health equity gaps.To learn more: https://goo.gl/6zaCkB    

June 19, 2017

ICEH, UFPel Center becomes official collaborator of PAHO / WHO

International Center for Equity in Health (ICEH) has become a collaborator with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). The goal of the researchers is to help reproduce maternal and infant mortality rates in 81 countries on all continents. In charge of the coordination are Aluisio Barros and Cesar Victora (from Vinicius Peraça, Diário Popular).      

June 16, 2017

The researcher Fernando Wehrmeister, took part of the Safe Mothers and Newborn Leadership Workshop

The researcher Fernando C. Wehrmeister, took part of the Safe Mothers and Newborn Leadership Workshop, representing the International Center for Equity in Health. The activity was held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 11th to 16th of June 2017 and organized by a partnership between Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health and Aga Khan University and ISGlobal. His talk was related to the progress in reducing health inequalities in reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health in Latin America and Ca

May 12, 2017

Wealth quintiles or deciles?

Wealth quintiles derived from household asset indices are routinely used for measuring socioeconomic inequalities in the health of women and children in low and middle-income countries. We explore whether the use of wealth deciles rather than quintiles may be advantageous. Read more: PLOS One    

May 12, 2017

Workshop: Ethnic Inequalities in Reproductive Health, Maternal, Neonatal and Children under five in Latin America

Next week (May, 15 - 19, 2017), the International Center for Equity in Health welcomes representatives from various Latin American countries. The main objective of the workshop is to initiate a multi-country study through a wide discussion on the subject and the training of the participants for the analysis of the data on the subject.    

March 28, 2017

Gairdner Award

The epidemiologist Cesar Victora, 65, becomes today the first Brazilian researcher among the winners of the Gairdner Prize, the most important scientific award in Canada and one of the most respected worldwide in the area of ??health sciences. The announcement was made at a ceremony at 9am in the city of Toronto, Canada. Since 1957, the Gairdner Award recognizes seven scientists annually for their contributions to medical and global health research, and has awarded more than 360 researchers i

March 21, 2017

Measuring Socioeconomic Inequalities With Absolute Incomes

To compare the predictive power of synthetic absolute income measures with that of asset-based wealth quintiles in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) using child stunting as an outcome. We pooled data from 239 nationally representative household surveys from LMICs and computed absolute incomes in US dollars based on households’ asset rank as well as data on national consumption and inequality levels. We used multivariable regression models to compare the predictive power of the cr

March 20, 2017

International Center for Equity in Health receives the visit of the Stanford Team

The gathering that happens this week (March, 20 - 24, 2016) has these goals: - Working together to add additional health indicators to the existing data set; we will define indicators of common interest that are not in the dataset and work together to harmonize these and add them to the data set. - Working together on analysis of the DHS/MICS/RHS dataset. - Discuss the process of developing the empowerment index, to inform a potential gender norm index.   The Stanford Team:&n