Psychological distress among university students during remote learning in Brazil: a multicenter online study.

Background: Studies assessing the prevalence of mental disorders in the context of remote teaching in Brazil during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic are scarce.

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of symptoms of anxiety and depression and their relationship with sociodemographic characteristics among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design And Setting: This multicenter cross-sectional study was conducted at eight Brazilian public universities.

[Intersectionality and food insecurity in favelas in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil].

Food insecurity has serious implications for populations' health and lives. Many social determinants have been identified, but understanding food insecurity remains limited due to a fragmented view that segregates vulnerability dimensions. This study aims to analyze food (in)security based on an intersectional perspective, having two favelas in Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais State, Brazil) and their surroundings as its studied site.

[Neighborhood characteristics in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil: an intraurban analysis using systematic social observation method].

Systematic social observation (SSO) is an objective method of measuring the neighborhood physical and social characteristics. This study aimed to build intraurban indicators using the SSO method and compare them between two slums and their surroundings in a Brazilian capital. The simple indicators were calculated using the ratio estimator method, and grouped into domains.

Social epidemiology of urban COVID-19 inequalities in Latin America and Canada.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has spread through pre-existing fault lines in societies, deepening structural barriers faced by precarious workers, low-income populations, and racialized communities in lower income sub-city units. Many studies have quantified the magnitude of inequalities in COVID-19 distribution within cities, but few have taken an international comparative approach to draw inferences on the ways urban epidemics are shaped by social determinants of health.

Methods: Guided by critical epidemiology, this study quantifies sub-city unit-level COVID-19 inequalities across eight of the largest metropolitan areas of Latin America and Canada.

Birth cohort differences in anthropometric measures in the older elderly: the Bambuí Cohort Study of Aging (1997 and 2008).

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of birth cohort on nutritional status among older elderly (71-81 years old) from the Bambuí Cohort Study of Aging, conducted in Brazil in 1997 and 2008. We compared the two birth cohorts--1916-1926 (older cohort) and 1927-1937 (recent cohort)--considering body mass index (BMI = weight/height²), waist circumference (WC) and prevalence of overweight (BMI ³ 27 kg/m²). BMI (β = 0.