Alexander Hochdorn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1560627 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Hochdorn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Hochdorn |
| SIGNATURE | HOCHDORN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade de Brasília |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6262-3233 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aging in (con)text
The aim of the current study was to access the intersectional link between aging and different contextual determinants, such as social class, gender identity, sexual orientation and race/ethnicity, among others, elder adults are exposed to in contemporary societies. Accordingly, a systematic review of existing literature in accordance with the PRISMA guidelines, processed through statistical text-mining-analysis, has been carried out to understan…
A permanência em situação de rua - Um olhar fenomenológico para a relação pessoa-rua
Objetivo: a presente pesquisa objetivou compreender as construções que se estabelecem na relação da pessoa que vive em situação de rua com esse contexto e que impactam na escolha pela permanência em tal situação. Metodologia: na pesquisa foi adotado um procedimento metodológico qualitativo. Foi utilizada a entrevista narrativa aberta para coleta de dados e o método fenomenológico de investigação para a análise articulada em três níveis: 1) Relaçõ…
Female entrepreneurship in Brazil
The study describes that gender conceptions, understanding what is considered masculine or feminine, have impacted the women’s activity named entrepreneurship. Attention is drawn to the fact that in Latin languages, such as the Portuguese language, there is a predominance of grammatical sexism, using male predicates to indicate male gender as well as human gender. In that scenario, this paper presents a literature review focused on female entrepr…
Regulatory and Educational Initiatives to Prevent Food Choking Injuries in Children
Choking injuries are one of the major causes of death among children ages 0–3, and most of these injuries are related to food. This work provides an overview of the current recommendations for food choking prevention and educational targets as a basis for developing a unified common set of knowledge for primary prevention policies development. Guidelines published by professional membership organizations and national governments in the English la…
Discursive construction of social representations expressed by seekers of psychosocial healthcare services in Brazil
Background: The current paper discusses the results of a study realized with 66 seekers of 12 psychosocial healthcare services (CAPS) in Brazil, by investigating their social representations. Aims: Throughout a quali-quantitative approach, unstructured interviews have been conducted and focused on two themes: one related to mental suffering and another to the CAPS itself. Method: The data were processed adopting the Iramuteq software for text-min…
Monitoring Public Perception of Health Risks in Brazil and Italy
One of the most relevant public health issues among pediatric injuries concerns foreign body (FB) aspiration. The risk perception of choking hazards (CH) and risk perception, in general, are complex multifactorial problems that play a significant role in defining protective behavior. Risk prevention policies should take this aspect into account. A lack of scientific knowledge of FB injury risk perception may be evidenced in Brazil and other newly…
Obese children are thin in parents' eyes
Although obesity presents a serious health problem in children, parents often underestimate their children's overweight and obesity status. Therefore, scientific literature was systematically screened through PubMed and PsycINFO to demonstrate the psychological, social, and cultural processes that underlie this evaluation bias. A total of 37 papers that focused on research conducted in different geopolitical contexts were taken into account. Furt…
Talking gender
The present study aims to shed light on how trans people discursively reproduce gendered habitus with regard to semantic means, following from the masculine or feminine designation in Roman languages. For this purpose, 11 interviews were conducted with trans women in prison, work, and private settings in Italy. In addition, three trans people who preferred not to be interviewed shared their diaries. By critically investigating the collected data,…
Talking gender
The present study aims to shed light on how trans people discursively reproduce gendered habitus with regard to semantic means, following from the masculine or feminine designation in Roman languages. For this purpose, 11 interviews were conducted with trans women in prison, work, and private settings in Italy. In addition, three trans people who preferred not to be interviewed shared their diaries. By critically investigating the collected data,…
Talking gender
The present study aims to shed light on how trans people discursively reproduce gendered habitus with regard to semantic means, following from the masculine or feminine designation in Roman languages. For this purpose, 11 interviews were conducted with trans women in prison, work, and private settings in Italy. In addition, three trans people who preferred not to be interviewed shared their diaries. By critically investigating the collected data,…
Obese children are thin in parents' eyes
Although obesity presents a serious health problem in children, parents often underestimate their children's overweight and obesity status. Therefore, scientific literature was systematically screened through PubMed and PsycINFO to demonstrate the psychological, social, and cultural processes that underlie this evaluation bias. A total of 37 papers that focused on research conducted in different geopolitical contexts were taken into account. Furt…
Monitoring Public Perception of Health Risks in Brazil and Italy
One of the most relevant public health issues among pediatric injuries concerns foreign body (FB) aspiration. The risk perception of choking hazards (CH) and risk perception, in general, are complex multifactorial problems that play a significant role in defining protective behavior. Risk prevention policies should take this aspect into account. A lack of scientific knowledge of FB injury risk perception may be evidenced in Brazil and other newly…
Female entrepreneurship in Brazil
The study describes that gender conceptions, understanding what is considered masculine or feminine, have impacted the women’s activity named entrepreneurship. Attention is drawn to the fact that in Latin languages, such as the Portuguese language, there is a predominance of grammatical sexism, using male predicates to indicate male gender as well as human gender. In that scenario, this paper presents a literature review focused on female entrepr…
Regulatory and Educational Initiatives to Prevent Food Choking Injuries in Children
Choking injuries are one of the major causes of death among children ages 0–3, and most of these injuries are related to food. This work provides an overview of the current recommendations for food choking prevention and educational targets as a basis for developing a unified common set of knowledge for primary prevention policies development. Guidelines published by professional membership organizations and national governments in the English la…
Discursive construction of social representations expressed by seekers of psychosocial healthcare services in Brazil
Background: The current paper discusses the results of a study realized with 66 seekers of 12 psychosocial healthcare services (CAPS) in Brazil, by investigating their social representations. Aims: Throughout a quali-quantitative approach, unstructured interviews have been conducted and focused on two themes: one related to mental suffering and another to the CAPS itself. Method: The data were processed adopting the Iramuteq software for text-min…
A permanência em situação de rua - Um olhar fenomenológico para a relação pessoa-rua
Objetivo: a presente pesquisa objetivou compreender as construções que se estabelecem na relação da pessoa que vive em situação de rua com esse contexto e que impactam na escolha pela permanência em tal situação. Metodologia: na pesquisa foi adotado um procedimento metodológico qualitativo. Foi utilizada a entrevista narrativa aberta para coleta de dados e o método fenomenológico de investigação para a análise articulada em três níveis: 1) Relaçõ…
Aging in (con)text
The aim of the current study was to access the intersectional link between aging and different contextual determinants, such as social class, gender identity, sexual orientation and race/ethnicity, among others, elder adults are exposed to in contemporary societies. Accordingly, a systematic review of existing literature in accordance with the PRISMA guidelines, processed through statistical text-mining-analysis, has been carried out to understan…
Psychology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Choking (2 works) · Environmental health (2 works) · Health, Nursing, Elderly Care (2 works) · Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Nursing (2 works)