Jose Ernesto Dos Santos
Biographic Data
| ID | 96130 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jose Ernesto Dos Santos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jose Ernesto |
| FAMILY NAME | Dos Santos |
| SIGNATURE | DOS SANTOS J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade de São Paulo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3269-1582 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 307 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Community science for mosquito surveillance in Canada
Organizations and public health authorities now have a clear, evidence-based guide to designing, implementing, and evaluating community-driven initiatives. This toolkit not only helps ensure that volunteer participation is meaningful and effective, but it also enhances the capacity to respond to emerging challenges in vector control, laying the groundwork for sustainable, community-driven surveillance efforts
Distance from a Cultural Prototype and Psychological Distress in Urban Brazil
The metaphor of culture as a space or environment of meaning is widely employed. Going beyond metaphor, we present a model of culture as a 3-dimensional Euclidean space, using data from Brazil on cultural models of life goals. The dimensions of this space are defined by degree of sharing of culture (cultural competence); alternate configurations of that shared meaning (residual agreement); and social practice (cultural consonance). A cultural dis…
Cultural Consonance in Food Consumption and Nutrient Intake in Southern Brazil
Culture influences food consumption and nutrient intake. In this paper we present a new approach in research, examining how knowledge and understanding of food is encoded in cultural models. The degree to which individuals match these shared models in their own consumption patterns is then measured, using the concept of cultural consonance. In research conducted in urban Brazil, the configuration of cultural models of food, and the association of…
Agency, Cultural Consonance and Depressive Symptoms
Cultural consonance, or individual enactment of cultural models, is associated with lower depressive symptoms. This article incorporates individual agency into the cultural consonance model. Data were collected using mixed methods in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. Brazil is a unique setting for this research, given that personal agency is institutionalized in the practice of o jeitinho (a distinctively Brazilian way of circumventing rules). Cultural con…
What You Know, What You Do, and How You Feel
Describing the link between culture (as a phenomenon pertaining to social aggregates) and the beliefs and behaviors of individuals, has eluded satisfactory resolution; however, contemporary cognitive culture theory offers hope. In this theory, culture is conceptualized as cognitive models describing specific domains of life that are shared by members of a social group. It is sharing that gives culture its aggregate properties. There are two aspec…
Cultural Consonance in Life Goals and Depressive Symptoms in Urban Brazil
Cultural consonance is the degree to which individuals approximate, in their own beliefs and behaviors, the prototypes for belief and behavior encoded in cultural models. Low cultural consonance is associated with higher psychological distress. Cultural consonance also converges across some cultural domains. Cultural consonance in different domains may converge because of an individual’s access to socioeconomic resources, or cultural consonance i…
The interaction of cultural consonance and a polymorphism in the 2A serotonin receptor in relation to depression in Brazil
OBJECTIVES: To replicate a previously identified gene-environment interaction between a genetic polymorphism in the serotonin 2A receptor and cultural consonance in family life in relation to depressive symptoms (Dressler et al., 2009). METHODS: A sample of 402 individuals in a sample drawn from four different economic strata in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil was interviewed and genotyped. RESULTS: Cultural consonance in family life has an inverse associ…
Culture as a mediator of gene-environment interaction
Culture and the Immune System
In this article, we examine the distribution of a marker of immune system stimulation-C-reactive protein-in urban Brazil. Social relationships are associated with immunostimulation, and we argue that cultural dimensions of social support, assessed by cultural consonance, are important in this process. Cultural consonance is the degree to which individuals, in their own beliefs and behaviors, approximate shared cultural models. A measure of cultur…
Eating Disorders
The cultural model of food was applied to 112 adult patients with eating disorders (PG) and 36 healthy adult women (CG) of similar age. The Free List and Ranking of Foods was used to group foods and verify consensus and cultural aspects. Calories, health, and taste were the dimensions used by the participants to group the foods, and strong consensus was achieved in regard to calories and health. There were, however, inter- and intra-group diverge…
Consonancia cultural»
La consonancia cultural, como concepto teórico y método para el estudio de la cultura, tiene ya una sólida trayectoria en la literatura antropológica norteamericana de orientación cognitiva, con apreciables ejemplos también en la antropología latinoamericana, aunque muchos menos en la europea. Por ahora, la consonancia cultural ha sido empleada mayoritariamente en la investigación sobre las relaciones entre cultura y salud, pero podría ser perfec…
Finding Culture Change in the Second Factor
This article reports the replication after 10 years of cultural consensus analyses in four cultural domains in the city of Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. Additionally, two methods for evaluating residual agreement are applied to the data, and a new technique for evaluating how cultural knowledge is represented by residual agreement is introduced. We found that overall cultural consensus observed in 2001 was replicated in 2011 in four cultural domains. S…
Culture as a Mediator of Health Disparities
Health disparities or health inequalities refer to enduring differences between population groups in health status, well-being, and mortality. Health inequalities have been described by race, ethnic group, gender, and social class. A variety of theories have been proposed to account for health inequalities, including access to medical care and absolute material deprivation. Several theorists (including Michael Marmot and Richard Wilkinson) have a…
How culture shapes the body
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this article is to develop a model of how culture shapes the body, based on two studies conducted in urban Brazil. METHODS: Research was conducted in 1991 and 2001 in four socioeconomically distinct neighborhoods. First, cultural domain analyses were conducted with samples of key informants. The cultural domains investigated included lifestyle, social support, family life, national identity, and food. Cultural consensus ana…
Does perceived stress mediate the effect of cultural consonance on depression
The importance of appraisal in the stress process is unquestioned. Experience in the social environment that impacts outcomes such as depression are thought to have these effects because they are appraised as a threat to the individual and overwhelm the individual's capacity to cope. In terms of the nature of social experience that is associated with depression, several recent studies have examined the impact of cultural consonance. Cultural cons…
Cultural consonance, a 5HT2A receptor polymorphism, and depressive symptoms
In this study in urban Brazil we examine, as a predictor of depressive symptoms, the interaction between a single nucleotide polymorphism in the 2A receptor in the serotonin system (−1438G/A) and cultural consonance in family life, a measure of the degree to which an individual perceives her family as corresponding to a widely shared cultural model of the prototypical family. A community sample of 144 adults was followed over a 2‐year‐period. Cul…
Intracultural Diversity in Food Knowledge in Southern Brazil
This research explores the social distribution of food knowledge in Ribeirão Preto, a city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Through an analysis of the distribution of individual expertise in regard to the cultural model of food along the dimensions of healthfulness, practicality, and prestige, this research demonstrates that knowledge of the cultural model of food is most strongly shared in the upper class of the city. Qualitative and quantitat…
Cultural consonance and adult body composition in urban Brazil
In previous research in Brazil, we found socioeconomic and gender differences in body mass and percent body fat, consistent with a model in which individuals in higher socioeconomic strata, especially women, could achieve a cultural ideal of body size and shape. In this article, using new data, we examine these processes more precisely using measures of cultural consonance. Cultural consonance refers to the degree to which individuals approximate…
Cultural consonance and psychological distress
A prospective study of cultural consonance and depressive symptoms in urban Brazil
Percepção de tamanho e forma corporal de mulheres
Objetivou-se investigar, através da Escala de Desenhos de Silhuetas, a percepção de tamanho e forma corporal de 150 mulheres, divididas com base no índice de massa corporal (IMC) em cinco grupos: não-obesidade, sobrepeso e obesidade graus I, II e III. As escolhas foram classificadas em representações de tamanho e forma corporal normal, real e ideal. Evidenciou-se que as escolhas de homem e mulher de tamanhos normais, nos cinco grupos, foram assoc…
Cultural consonance and arterial blood pressure in urban Brazil
Measuring Cultural Consonance
A valid and reliable anthropological measurement must be culturally appropriate for a particular social setting. Justifying the appropriateness of a measurement often depends on the skill of the researcher in describing the ethnographic setting. This has resulted in valuable research, but it is difficult to systematize and lacks transparency. Here the authors present a measurement model for anthropology that links structured ethnographic methods-…
Eating, drinking and being depressed
Social Status and Food Preference in Southern Brazil
The prestige value of food and food behaviors is a topic of inquiry that complements the study of nutritional aspects of food use. In this work, varying social groups in Brazil are examined with regard to their evaluation of the status of available foods, and in turn, the frequencies with which they consume high and low status foods. Ethnographic and structured interviews were used to collect data, with agreement among groups tested by using Cult…
Culture, Socioeconomic Status, and Physical and Mental Health in Brazil
The association of socioeconomic variables with poor health status has been widely observed, if not well understood, and cultural dimensions of socioeconomic differences have rarely been incorporated into research models. In this article, a cultural dimension of socioeconomic status is examined in a Brazilian city through the use of ethnographic and social survey techniques. It suggests that lifestyle, defined in terms of the relative ability to …
Measuring Cultural Consonance
A valid and reliable anthropological measurement must be culturally appropriate for a particular social setting. Justifying the appropriateness of a measurement often depends on the skill of the researcher in describing the ethnographic setting. This has resulted in valuable research, but it is difficult to systematize and lacks transparency. Here the authors present a measurement model for anthropology that links structured ethnographic methods-…
Cultural consonance and arterial blood pressure in urban Brazil
Arterial Blood Pressure and Modernization in Brazil
The relationship between individual modernization and elevated arterial blood pressure was examined in a study in urban Brazil. We hypothesized that elevated blood pressure would result from the discrepancy between an individual's style of life and his or her economic resources; specifically, we suggested that when modern life-style acquisition exceeded economic resources, a circumstance referred to as "life-style stress," blood pressure would be…
Finding Culture Change in the Second Factor
This article reports the replication after 10 years of cultural consensus analyses in four cultural domains in the city of Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. Additionally, two methods for evaluating residual agreement are applied to the data, and a new technique for evaluating how cultural knowledge is represented by residual agreement is introduced. We found that overall cultural consensus observed in 2001 was replicated in 2011 in four cultural domains. S…
A prospective study of cultural consonance and depressive symptoms in urban Brazil
Eating, drinking and being depressed
Culture and the Immune System
In this article, we examine the distribution of a marker of immune system stimulation-C-reactive protein-in urban Brazil. Social relationships are associated with immunostimulation, and we argue that cultural dimensions of social support, assessed by cultural consonance, are important in this process. Cultural consonance is the degree to which individuals, in their own beliefs and behaviors, approximate shared cultural models. A measure of cultur…
Cultural Consonance in Life Goals and Depressive Symptoms in Urban Brazil
Cultural consonance is the degree to which individuals approximate, in their own beliefs and behaviors, the prototypes for belief and behavior encoded in cultural models. Low cultural consonance is associated with higher psychological distress. Cultural consonance also converges across some cultural domains. Cultural consonance in different domains may converge because of an individual’s access to socioeconomic resources, or cultural consonance i…
What You Know, What You Do, and How You Feel
Describing the link between culture (as a phenomenon pertaining to social aggregates) and the beliefs and behaviors of individuals, has eluded satisfactory resolution; however, contemporary cognitive culture theory offers hope. In this theory, culture is conceptualized as cognitive models describing specific domains of life that are shared by members of a social group. It is sharing that gives culture its aggregate properties. There are two aspec…
Culture as a mediator of gene-environment interaction
Percepção de tamanho e forma corporal de mulheres
Objetivou-se investigar, através da Escala de Desenhos de Silhuetas, a percepção de tamanho e forma corporal de 150 mulheres, divididas com base no índice de massa corporal (IMC) em cinco grupos: não-obesidade, sobrepeso e obesidade graus I, II e III. As escolhas foram classificadas em representações de tamanho e forma corporal normal, real e ideal. Evidenciou-se que as escolhas de homem e mulher de tamanhos normais, nos cinco grupos, foram assoc…
Social and dietary predictors of serum lipids
Does perceived stress mediate the effect of cultural consonance on depression
The importance of appraisal in the stress process is unquestioned. Experience in the social environment that impacts outcomes such as depression are thought to have these effects because they are appraised as a threat to the individual and overwhelm the individual's capacity to cope. In terms of the nature of social experience that is associated with depression, several recent studies have examined the impact of cultural consonance. Cultural cons…
Agency, Cultural Consonance and Depressive Symptoms
Cultural consonance, or individual enactment of cultural models, is associated with lower depressive symptoms. This article incorporates individual agency into the cultural consonance model. Data were collected using mixed methods in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. Brazil is a unique setting for this research, given that personal agency is institutionalized in the practice of o jeitinho (a distinctively Brazilian way of circumventing rules). Cultural con…
Culture as a Mediator of Health Disparities
Health disparities or health inequalities refer to enduring differences between population groups in health status, well-being, and mortality. Health inequalities have been described by race, ethnic group, gender, and social class. A variety of theories have been proposed to account for health inequalities, including access to medical care and absolute material deprivation. Several theorists (including Michael Marmot and Richard Wilkinson) have a…
Distance from a Cultural Prototype and Psychological Distress in Urban Brazil
The metaphor of culture as a space or environment of meaning is widely employed. Going beyond metaphor, we present a model of culture as a 3-dimensional Euclidean space, using data from Brazil on cultural models of life goals. The dimensions of this space are defined by degree of sharing of culture (cultural competence); alternate configurations of that shared meaning (residual agreement); and social practice (cultural consonance). A cultural dis…
Influência do exercício físico aeróbico na prevenção da doença coronariana
A presente revisão enfatiza a função do EFA (Exercício Físico Aeróbico), moderado ou vigoroso, como um importante fator na profilaxia da AC (arteriosclerose coronariana), sobretudo quando associado a outras medidas profiláticas conhecidas. Esse efeito está provavelmente relacionado com o fato do EFA elevar a concentração de HDL-c. Esta, provavelmente, é a única medida a ser tomada naqueles casos onde não existe nenhum fator de risco associado, ma…
Blood pressure, ethnicity, and psychosocial resources
Research on psychosocial factors and cardiovascular disease has shown that psychosocial resources (including social supports and coping styles) help to protect individuals from the risk associated with psychosocial stressors. Some evidence indicates that this protective effect may extend to standard risk factors as well. This latter hypothesis was examined in greater detail in a study conducted in Brazil, in which it was found that psychosocial r…
Arterial Blood Pressure and Modernization in Brazil
The relationship between individual modernization and elevated arterial blood pressure was examined in a study in urban Brazil. We hypothesized that elevated blood pressure would result from the discrepancy between an individual's style of life and his or her economic resources; specifically, we suggested that when modern life-style acquisition exceeded economic resources, a circumstance referred to as "life-style stress," blood pressure would be…
A Reply to Garn, Sullivan, and Ten Have
Social and dietary predictors of serum lipids
The Cultural Construction of Social Support in Brazil
Culture, Socioeconomic Status, and Physical and Mental Health in Brazil
The association of socioeconomic variables with poor health status has been widely observed, if not well understood, and cultural dimensions of socioeconomic differences have rarely been incorporated into research models. In this article, a cultural dimension of socioeconomic status is examined in a Brazilian city through the use of ethnographic and social survey techniques. It suggests that lifestyle, defined in terms of the relative ability to …
Culture, skin color, and arterial blood pressure in Brazil
Populations of African descent in North and South America have higher mean blood pressures and higher rates of hypertension than populations of European descent or populations in Africa. Within populations of African descent, darker skinned persons have higher blood pressures than lighter skinned persons. Whether examined within or between populations, there is an interaction between skin color and socioeconomic status (SES) in relation to blood …
Social and cultural dimensions of hypertension in Brazil
Elevated arterial blood pressure varies substantially in relation to social and cultural variables. Early work on acculturation, socioeconomic status, and blood pressure documented this variation, which could not be explained entirely by conventional factors such as diet, physical activity, or access to medical care. These findings stimulated the development of a model of stress and disease. The stress model emphasizes social and psychological fa…
A imagem corporal de mulheres morbidamente obesas avaliada através do desenho da figura humana
Objetiva-se avaliar a auto-imagem de 30 mulheres com obesidade mórbida, comparativamente a 30 mulheres não obesas. Procedeu-se à avaliação individual, utilizando-se o Desenho da Figura Humana (DFH) e entrevista complementar. Quanto aos aspectos gerais do desenho, os grupos diferiram significativamente em relação aos índices qualidade do grafismo, localização na página e temática, caracterizando predomínio de sentimentos de inadequação por parte d…
Social Status and Food Preference in Southern Brazil
The prestige value of food and food behaviors is a topic of inquiry that complements the study of nutritional aspects of food use. In this work, varying social groups in Brazil are examined with regard to their evaluation of the status of available foods, and in turn, the frequencies with which they consume high and low status foods. Ethnographic and structured interviews were used to collect data, with agreement among groups tested by using Cult…
Eating, drinking and being depressed
Percepção de tamanho e forma corporal de mulheres
Objetivou-se investigar, através da Escala de Desenhos de Silhuetas, a percepção de tamanho e forma corporal de 150 mulheres, divididas com base no índice de massa corporal (IMC) em cinco grupos: não-obesidade, sobrepeso e obesidade graus I, II e III. As escolhas foram classificadas em representações de tamanho e forma corporal normal, real e ideal. Evidenciou-se que as escolhas de homem e mulher de tamanhos normais, nos cinco grupos, foram assoc…
Cultural consonance and arterial blood pressure in urban Brazil
Measuring Cultural Consonance
A valid and reliable anthropological measurement must be culturally appropriate for a particular social setting. Justifying the appropriateness of a measurement often depends on the skill of the researcher in describing the ethnographic setting. This has resulted in valuable research, but it is difficult to systematize and lacks transparency. Here the authors present a measurement model for anthropology that links structured ethnographic methods-…
Cultural consonance and psychological distress
A prospective study of cultural consonance and depressive symptoms in urban Brazil
Cultural consonance and adult body composition in urban Brazil
In previous research in Brazil, we found socioeconomic and gender differences in body mass and percent body fat, consistent with a model in which individuals in higher socioeconomic strata, especially women, could achieve a cultural ideal of body size and shape. In this article, using new data, we examine these processes more precisely using measures of cultural consonance. Cultural consonance refers to the degree to which individuals approximate…
Cultural consonance, a 5HT2A receptor polymorphism, and depressive symptoms
In this study in urban Brazil we examine, as a predictor of depressive symptoms, the interaction between a single nucleotide polymorphism in the 2A receptor in the serotonin system (−1438G/A) and cultural consonance in family life, a measure of the degree to which an individual perceives her family as corresponding to a widely shared cultural model of the prototypical family. A community sample of 144 adults was followed over a 2‐year‐period. Cul…
Intracultural Diversity in Food Knowledge in Southern Brazil
This research explores the social distribution of food knowledge in Ribeirão Preto, a city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Through an analysis of the distribution of individual expertise in regard to the cultural model of food along the dimensions of healthfulness, practicality, and prestige, this research demonstrates that knowledge of the cultural model of food is most strongly shared in the upper class of the city. Qualitative and quantitat…
Does perceived stress mediate the effect of cultural consonance on depression
The importance of appraisal in the stress process is unquestioned. Experience in the social environment that impacts outcomes such as depression are thought to have these effects because they are appraised as a threat to the individual and overwhelm the individual's capacity to cope. In terms of the nature of social experience that is associated with depression, several recent studies have examined the impact of cultural consonance. Cultural cons…
How culture shapes the body
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this article is to develop a model of how culture shapes the body, based on two studies conducted in urban Brazil. METHODS: Research was conducted in 1991 and 2001 in four socioeconomically distinct neighborhoods. First, cultural domain analyses were conducted with samples of key informants. The cultural domains investigated included lifestyle, social support, family life, national identity, and food. Cultural consensus ana…
Culture as a Mediator of Health Disparities
Health disparities or health inequalities refer to enduring differences between population groups in health status, well-being, and mortality. Health inequalities have been described by race, ethnic group, gender, and social class. A variety of theories have been proposed to account for health inequalities, including access to medical care and absolute material deprivation. Several theorists (including Michael Marmot and Richard Wilkinson) have a…
Eating Disorders
The cultural model of food was applied to 112 adult patients with eating disorders (PG) and 36 healthy adult women (CG) of similar age. The Free List and Ranking of Foods was used to group foods and verify consensus and cultural aspects. Calories, health, and taste were the dimensions used by the participants to group the foods, and strong consensus was achieved in regard to calories and health. There were, however, inter- and intra-group diverge…
Consonancia cultural»
La consonancia cultural, como concepto teórico y método para el estudio de la cultura, tiene ya una sólida trayectoria en la literatura antropológica norteamericana de orientación cognitiva, con apreciables ejemplos también en la antropología latinoamericana, aunque muchos menos en la europea. Por ahora, la consonancia cultural ha sido empleada mayoritariamente en la investigación sobre las relaciones entre cultura y salud, pero podría ser perfec…
Psychology (27 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (19 works) · Social Psychology (19 works) · Medicine (18 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (11 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (10 works) · Demography (10 works)