Fernando Madalena Volpe

Biographic Data

ID2759315
NAMEFernando Madalena Volpe
GIVEN NAMESFernando Madalena
FAMILY NAMEVolpe
SIGNATUREVOLPE F M
AFFILIATIONSFundação Hospitalar do Estado de Minas Gerais
ORCID0000-0002-3252-6715
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX1

  • Geographical clusters and social risk factors for suicide in the city of São Paulo, 2006–2015

    Open AccessDaniel Hideki Bando, Ligia Barrozo et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2020

    BACKGROUND: To identify geographical clusters of suicide in São Paulo, Brazil (2006-2015) and to verify the associations of suicide with sociocultural characteristics of its 96 districts. METHODS: Spatial scan test was used to detect the geographical clusters. Correlation and multiple regression techniques were used to estimate the association of socioeconomic and cultural variables with suicide. RESULTS: The mean suicide rate was 4.8/100,000. Th…

  • Evolução do perfil das internações psiquiátricas pelo Sistema Único de Saúde em Minas Gerais, Brasil, 2001-2013

    Open AccessAna Paula Martins Lara, Fernando Madalena VolpeARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2019Cited by: 1References: 1

    The scope of this article is to analyze the evolution of the profile of psychiatric admissions via the Unified Health System in psychiatric hospitals of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, between 2001 and 2013. Data were obtained from the Information Technology Department of the Unified Health System. The analyses of trends were conducted by regression procedures, in which the independent variable was the year, and the dependent variables were th…

  • Alteração do perfil de atendimento dos hospitais psiquiátricos públicos de Belo Horizonte, Brasil, no contexto da reforma da assistência à saúde mental

    Open AccessVivian Andrade Araujo Coelho, Fernando Madalena Volpe et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2014

    O objetivo do artigo é descrever os atendimentos e as internações nos hospitais psiquiátricos públicos de Belo Horizonte de 2002 a 2011, explorando mudanças nas características dos atendimentos e no perfil dos pacientes atendidos; no contexto da reforma da assistência em saúde mental. Estudo de séries temporais com análises de tendência por meio de regressões lineares. No período analisado, houve redução no total de atendimentos. Inversamente, co…

  • Correlation of Cesarean rates to maternal and infant mortality rates

    Open AccessFernando Madalena VolpeARTICLERevista Panamericana de Salud…2011

    There is an inverse exponential relation between countries' rates of Cesarean deliveries and infant or maternal mortality rates. Very low Cesarean rates (less than 15%) are associated with poorer maternal and child outcomes. Cesarean rates greater than 15% were neither correlated to higher maternal nor child mortality, nor to low weight-at-birth

  • The impact of changing health indicators on infant mortality rates in Brazil, 2000 and 2005

    Open AccessFernando Madalena Volpe, Marcelo Militão Abrantes et al.ARTICLERevista Panamericana de Salud…2009

    Improving access to prenatal care, increasing public expenditure on health, and access to sanitation and water supply were all independently correlated to declining IMR; however, higher rates of cesarean deliveries were associated with higher late neonatal mortality rates. Continuous collection and analysis of relevant health indicators is recommended for developing evidence-based health policies and accurate predictions of how specific public he…