Plastic surgery, initially aimed at correcting deformities, has expanded to include aesthetic procedures and has become increasingly influenced by social media, which can affect patients’ self-image, expectations, and decision-making. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of social media on plastic surgery patients treated at Professor Edgard Santos University Hospital, in Salvador, Bahia, analyzing its interference in body perception, procedure choice, and aesthetic expectation...
This term paper analyzes the application of relational and emotional marketing strategies in the latest 2024 advertising campaigns of Itaú Unibanco, Banco do Brasil, and Nubank. The goal is to comprehend how these practices influence the consolidation of brand loyalty, as conceptualized by David Aaker and Andrea Semprini. Using a descriptive and qualitative approach, a literature review of marketing approaches and the concept of loyalty was conducted, as well as a qualitative analysis o...
Public and private contexts are experienced in processes of socialization and identity construction. Particularly during the transition to youth, recognition, support, and protection are common and desired axes. When one of the processes is linked to gender identity and a formative life project, the inclusion and integration of diversity and identity expressions can be associated with socio-educational spaces. The coming out of the closet of trans youth to the stage (public sphere), via the l...
This dissertation aims to provide a feminist and decolonial perspective on the topic of feminicide against transgender and trans women, analyzing the disputes surrounding the concept of "being a woman" in the application of feminicide to cases of homicide against them. The study seeks to dismantle hegemonic knowledge and understanding by employing feminist epistemology and critical feminist discourse analysis. The methodological approach is based on Queer Theory, Transfeminism, and other...
The objective of this study is to verify if the concentration of beds in the municipalities of Brazil is associated to pressures of use of the hospital system, that is to say, to the higher hospitalization rates, as an important relation in the area of public health denominated "Law of Roemer". Methodologically, the work uses a space panel with fixed effects of year and municipality in order to verify the strength of the correlation of the rate of beds offered in the municipality and its imme...
The objective of this study is to verify if the concentration of beds in the municipalities of Brazil is associated to pressures of use of the hospital system, that is to say, to the higher hospitalization rates, as suggested by an important relation in the area of public health called Roemer's Law. Methodologically, the work uses quantile regressions in order to verify the strength of the correlation of the rate of beds offered with the different quantiles of the distribution of hospitalizat...
In the last decades, the theories about human capital have explained considerably the great accumulation of income and the growth of the economies in the long term. Investment in education has proved to be an important element in differentiating and enhancing the skills needed for the increasingly complex roles of workers in the contemporary world. Given the above, the objective of this study is to show, through a multinomial logit econometric model, empirical evidence demonstrating the posit...
The Brazilian retail trade between, 2003 and 2013, showed a high growth rate driven by the good performance of the Brazilian economy in this period. Given the above, this paper aims to evaluate, through the autoregressive vectors methodology, the intertemporal relations of the variables that influenced the growth dynamics of the retail in this period of bonanza. The results of the impulse response and variance functions of the variance indicated that income, Selic and consumer confidence inde...
One of the great challenges when studying the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) is to understand how the decentralization of resources between different spheres of government takes place. The purpose of this paper is to fill this gap by describing in detail how federal transfers to manage low complexity in Brazilian municipalities, that is, primary care. First, it seeks to present a brief description of the origin of the SUS and the process of perfecting its financing mechanism at the thr...
The objective of this work is to verify, through causal inference, if positive shocks in federal government funding in primary health care negatively affect the probability of use (hospitalization) of the hospital system due to improvements in collective health. Data from Brazil, which, with regard to health policies, has a basic health care system that is universal, public and free, was used. The results largely suggest that greater federal funding of primary care generated higher averages f...
The subject of this dissertation is the former Municipal Intendencia - ‘Palácio da Águia’, located around Praça Marechal Floriano Peixoto, in the Centro neighbourhood of the city of Maceió - Alagoas. The area where the object of study is located was developed at the beginning of the 20th century, during the republican period when Maceió was elevated to the status of capital. The building, designed by the Italian architect Luigi Lucarini, in an eclectic style and neo-Gothic appearance, was bu...
This article sought to verify whether greater financing in primary health has negatively affected hospitalizations due to conditions sensitive to primary care in small municipalities in Brazil. For this, the Spatial Fixed Effects Estimator was used. The results suggest that greater financing is associated with greater pressure to use the hospital system.
The main objective of the article is to empirically analyze the main determinants of the kangaroo generation in Brazil. The data from the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílio (PNAD), carried out by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), for the years 2003 to 2013. For this purpose, a logit model is used to identify the main factors acting on the probability of an individual aged between 25 and 34 years old to live in the family environment of origin. The literature ...
The objective of this work is to verify if a positive change in the time of exposure to daily sunlight affects the incidence of suicide. The article is theoretically based on public health literature that suggests that this climate variable appears to affect reported cases of the event worldwide. Methodologically, we used data on deaths from southern Brazil, over a period of 10 years, and a discontinuous regression design to test the hypothesis that longer exposure to late-day sunlight, resul...
Double-origin right coronary artery (RCA) is a rare coronary anomaly. To date, the number of reported cases of double RCA is relatively small. However, several cases have been described in the literature, particularly over the past decade, due to the increasing availability of diagnostic resources, improvements in diagnostic techniques, and greater access to imaging studies. A female patient was referred through the regulatory system with a diagnosis of stable angina. During cardiac cat...
The objective of this article is to verify to what extent the intergovernmental transfer of the Fundo de Participação dos Municípios (FPM), associated with the audits of municipal accounts carried out by the Controladoria Geral da União (CGU), can be important for social well-being, measured through of maternal and child health indicators. The results suggest that the effectiveness in the allocation of public resources, in improving the health indicators of the municipalities, is only verifie...
This study aims to analyze the impact of food and nutrition insecurity (IAN) on the agegrade distortion of Brazilian students enrolled in the basic education system, based on the database of the special supplement of the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (PNAD Contínua) of 2023. To achieve this objective, matching techniques, such as PSM, and reweighting methods, such as inverse probability weighting (IPW) and weighting with regression adjustment (IPWRA), were used. Subsequently, a ...
This research aims to bring together different approaches and discussions, theoretical and empirical, presented in the literature, on the challenge of estimating fiscal multipliers. The countercyclical value of fiscal policy effectiveness is represented by an estimated numerical coefficient, which revolves around 1, called “fiscal multiplier”. The size and sign of the multiplier proved, over years of empirical studies, to be extremely sensitive to the macroeconomic characteristics of each cou...
The general objective of this study is to analyze the prevalence of food and nutritional insecurity (FNI) in the Brazilian population, differentiating its incidence between urban and rural environments. To this end, a multinomial logit model was used with data from the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (PNAD Contínua) of 2023. It was identified that factors such as education of the head of the household, and per capita income positively influence the population's food condition, wh...
This study examines the probability of households with labor income in the state of Bahia finding themselves in a situation of economic vulnerability between 2015 and 2022. Grounded in the critique of political economy, the research dissects the “working poor” paradox, interpreting it not as a market dysfunction, but as an expression of the superexploitation of labor inherent to dependent capitalism (Marini, 2011). From this perspective, remuneration below the value required for workforce rep...
