Joshua Borycz
University of Tennessee, Knoxvxille 1345 Circle Park Drive Knoxville, TN 37916
Familiar no Brasil (BEMFAM)
Sociedad Civil Bem-Estar
Official reports (see health data links below) are in Portuguese. Metadata is in both Portuguese and English.
May 1986 - August 1986 March 1996 - June 1996
Demographic and Health Surveys Program
1986 health data 1996 health data
women, health, family, children, contraception, malaria, treatment, brazil, medicine, behavior, contraception, water, anthropometry, cancer, HIV,iIodine salt test, maternal mortality, tobacco use
Survey of women in Brazil in 1986 and 1996 regarding health and health practices that include nutrition, contraception, cleanliness of drinking water, media consumption, literacy, child mortality, and many other factors. These data were gathered by separating Brazil into 6 locations (São Paulo, Rio De Janeiro, Southern, Central (West and East in 1996), Northeastern, and Northern) and distributing a paper survey to women from various locations across each region. The goal of this study will be to compare health behaviors between these data and note any improvements.
map-survey-regions.png Image showing the regions of Brazil utilized for this survey. malaria_brazil_individuals_1986.v.20190410.csv - 18.2 MB CSV file that contains the raw survey data of individual women from Brazil in 1986 that is organized into columns by case number. malaria_brazil_individuals_1986.v.20190410.MAP - 0.4 MB Text file that describes the meaning of the headings in the CSV file of the 1986 survey. malaria_brazil_individuals_1996.v.20190410.csv - 81.2 MB CSV file that contains the raw survey data of individual women from Brazil in 1996 that is organized into columns by case number. malaria_brazil_individuals_1996.v.20190410.MAP - 1.1 MB Text file that describes the meaning of the headings in the CSV file of the 1996 survey.
death-of-children.png Stacked bar plot showing the proportion of women in the survey that have had a certain number of children die. (A) Sons in 1986, (B) sons in 1996, (C) daughters in 1986, and (D) daughters in 1996. knowledge-vs-use.png Stacked bar plot showing the proportion of women that knew of methods of treatment for various illnesses. (A) Type of treatment that is known (modern, none, traditional) in 1986, (B) type of treatment that is known (modern, none, folkloric,traditional) in 1996, (C) treatment type USED in 1986, and (D) treatment type used in 1996.
[1] Arruda, J. M., Rutenberg, N., Morris, L., Ferraz, E. A., & Sociedade Civil Bem-Estar Familiar no Brasil, B. (1987). Pesquisa Nacional Sobre Sa˙de Materno-Infantile Planejamento Familiar Brasil 1986. Retrieved from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil: http://dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/FR4/FR4.pdf [2] DHS. Demographic and health surveys. Retrieved from https://dhsprogram.com/ [3] Sociedade Civil Bem-Estar Familiar no Brasil, B., & Macro, I. (1997). Brasil Pesquisa Nacional Sobre Demografia e Sa˙de 1996. Retrieved from Calverton, Maryland, USA: http://dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/FR77/FR77.pdf