Kenneth Rochel De Camargo
Biographic Data
| ID | 161767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth Rochel De Camargo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth Rochel |
| FAMILY NAME | De Camargo |
| SIGNATURE | DE CAMARGO K R |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Associate Editor, AJPH |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Providing Support for the Mental Health of Health Care Workers
Disease Control and Prevention's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to present the challenges to health care workers' mental health, document processes in place and recommend additional measures to address mental health burdens in occupational settings
An Alarming Trend in US Population Health
The Economy as a Determinant of Pandemic Deaths
Brazil’s National Health Care System at Risk for Losing Its Universal Character
Universal Care: The Force of an Idea
AffiliationsKenneth Rochel de Camargo Jr is with the Instituto de Medicina Social, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and is an associate editor of the AJPH
The Zika Virus Outbreak in Brazil: Knowledge Gaps and Challenges for Risk Reduction
We analyzed uncertainties and complexities of the Zika virus outbreak in Brazil, and we discuss risk reduction for future emergencies. We present the public health situation in Brazil and concurrent determinants of the epidemic and the knowledge gaps that persist despite building evidence from research, making public health decisions difficult. Brazil has adopted active measures, but producing desired outcomes may be uncertain because of partial …
Entre los valores y el pragmatismo
Values and Pragmatism
In this article the author reflects on the name of the Journal of Public and on advances which have been seen in the scope of the journal since 1999. In the article he discusses the Pan American Health Organization and a partnership between the journal and Environmental Health Perspectives and Mali Medical and reports on the efforts that the Journal of Public is making to increase its impact in other countries by translating articles into Spanish…
How to identify science being bent: The tobacco industry's fight to deny second-hand smoking health hazards as an example
Science, Knowledge, and Society
In this article the author discusses the relationship between science, knowledge, and society. He notes that despite a few instances in which science has been marred by things that have gone wrong, such as unanticipated side effects of drugs, Western industrialized societies have enormous respect for science. He discusses some drawbacks regarding the perception of science's role in public health, the role of civil society in science, and translat…
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
“It was twenty years ago today…”—the beginning of the Brazilian National Health Care System
This brief recollection aims to introduce the historical development of the Brazilian National Health Care System to a larger audience.1 A military coup d’etat in 1964 interrupted the fledgling democratic development in Brazil that began with the end of the Vargas dictatorship in 1945. Unsuccessful attempts to overthrow the new regime through guerilla warfare gave way, during the 1970s, to the slow reorganisation of civil society. Health became a…
The Zika Virus Outbreak in Brazil: Knowledge Gaps and Challenges for Risk Reduction
We analyzed uncertainties and complexities of the Zika virus outbreak in Brazil, and we discuss risk reduction for future emergencies. We present the public health situation in Brazil and concurrent determinants of the epidemic and the knowledge gaps that persist despite building evidence from research, making public health decisions difficult. Brazil has adopted active measures, but producing desired outcomes may be uncertain because of partial …
How to identify science being bent: The tobacco industry's fight to deny second-hand smoking health hazards as an example
Science, Knowledge, and Society
In this article the author discusses the relationship between science, knowledge, and society. He notes that despite a few instances in which science has been marred by things that have gone wrong, such as unanticipated side effects of drugs, Western industrialized societies have enormous respect for science. He discusses some drawbacks regarding the perception of science's role in public health, the role of civil society in science, and translat…
Brazil’s National Health Care System at Risk for Losing Its Universal Character
“It was twenty years ago today…”—the beginning of the Brazilian National Health Care System
This brief recollection aims to introduce the historical development of the Brazilian National Health Care System to a larger audience.1 A military coup d’etat in 1964 interrupted the fledgling democratic development in Brazil that began with the end of the Vargas dictatorship in 1945. Unsuccessful attempts to overthrow the new regime through guerilla warfare gave way, during the 1970s, to the slow reorganisation of civil society. Health became a…
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Science, Knowledge, and Society
In this article the author discusses the relationship between science, knowledge, and society. He notes that despite a few instances in which science has been marred by things that have gone wrong, such as unanticipated side effects of drugs, Western industrialized societies have enormous respect for science. He discusses some drawbacks regarding the perception of science's role in public health, the role of civil society in science, and translat…
How to identify science being bent: The tobacco industry's fight to deny second-hand smoking health hazards as an example
Entre los valores y el pragmatismo
Values and Pragmatism
In this article the author reflects on the name of the Journal of Public and on advances which have been seen in the scope of the journal since 1999. In the article he discusses the Pan American Health Organization and a partnership between the journal and Environmental Health Perspectives and Mali Medical and reports on the efforts that the Journal of Public is making to increase its impact in other countries by translating articles into Spanish…
The Zika Virus Outbreak in Brazil: Knowledge Gaps and Challenges for Risk Reduction
We analyzed uncertainties and complexities of the Zika virus outbreak in Brazil, and we discuss risk reduction for future emergencies. We present the public health situation in Brazil and concurrent determinants of the epidemic and the knowledge gaps that persist despite building evidence from research, making public health decisions difficult. Brazil has adopted active measures, but producing desired outcomes may be uncertain because of partial …
Universal Care: The Force of an Idea
AffiliationsKenneth Rochel de Camargo Jr is with the Instituto de Medicina Social, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and is an associate editor of the AJPH
Brazil’s National Health Care System at Risk for Losing Its Universal Character
The Economy as a Determinant of Pandemic Deaths
An Alarming Trend in US Population Health
Providing Support for the Mental Health of Health Care Workers
Disease Control and Prevention's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to present the challenges to health care workers' mental health, document processes in place and recommend additional measures to address mental health burdens in occupational settings
Medicine (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Public health (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Civil society (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Family medicine (2 works) · Global Health Care Issues (2 works)