Eduardo Viegas da Silva

Biographic Data

ID8520245
NAMEEduardo Viegas da Silva
GIVEN NAMESEduardo Viegas
FAMILY NAMEda Silva
SIGNATUREDA SILVA E V
AFFILIATIONSUniversidade Federal de Pelotas
ORCID0000-0002-6347-6431
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Factors influencing hepatitis C treatment initiation in a high-prevalence Brazilian state

    Open AccessVitória Machado Krüger, A S Da Silva et al.ARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2026

    Hepatitis C virus infection remains a leading cause of chronic liver disease worldwide, affecting more than 70 million people, many of whom remain undiagnosed or untreated. In Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul State has the highest hepatitis C detection rate, underscoring the need for coordinated strategies to eliminate it by 2030. Underdiagnosis and barriers to treatment initiation persist despite the availability of highly effective antiviral therapies…

  • Towards a better understanding of real-world home-visiting programs

    Open AccessMorgan Rebecca Healy, Eduardo Viegas da Silva et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    BACKGROUND: The scale-up of parenting programmes to support early childhood development (ECD) is poorly understood. Little is known about how and when early interventions are most effective. Sustainability of ECD programming requires a better understanding of the mechanisms of real-world interventions. We examined the effects on caregiving practices of Primeira Infância Melhor (PIM), a state-wide home-visiting programme in Brazil. METHODS: This p…

  • Predictors of early child development for screening pregnant women most in need of support in Brazil

    Open AccessEduardo Viegas da Silva, Fernando Pires Hartwig et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2024

    Background: Home visiting programmes can support child development and reduce inequalities, but failure to identify the most vulnerable families can undermine such efforts. We examined whether there are strong predictors of poor child development that could be used to screen pregnant women in primary health care settings to target early interventions in a Brazilian population. Considering selected predictors, we assessed coverage and focus of a l…

  • The effects of a large-scale home visiting programme for child development on use of health services in Brazil

    Open AccessEduardo Viegas da Silva, Fernando Pires Hartwig et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2024

    Partnership between early childhood development interventions and primary health care services can help catalyse health care uptake by socially vulnerable families. This study aimed to assess the real-life effects of a large-scale home visiting programme [Primeira Infância Melhor (PIM)] in Brazil on the use of preventive (prenatal visits, well child visits, dentist visits and vaccination) and recovery (emergency room visits and hospitalization) h…

  • Effectiveness of a large-scale home visiting programme (PIM) on early child development in Brazil

    Open AccessEduardo Viegas da Silva, Fernando Pires Hartwig et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    BACKGROUND: A large-scale parenting programme with weekly home visits (Primeira Infância Melhor (PIM)) has been implemented in the south of Brazil for nearly two decades, but lacks evaluation of its effects on early childhood development (ECD). This quasi-experimental study aimed to assess the effects of PIM in real-life settings within a population-based birth cohort study. METHODS: Data from the 2015 Pelotas Birth Cohort Study and the state pro…

  • Obesity and Covid-19 in-hospital fatality in southern Brazil

    Open AccessGbènankpon Mathias Houvèssou, Daniel G P Leventhal et al.ARTICLERevista de Saúde Pública2022

    OBJECTIVES: To estimate the relative risk (RR) of death associated with obesity, the attributable fraction in the exposed/with obesity (AFo), and the hospitalized population attributable risk (hospitalized PAR) associated with obesity of death among all adults and among Black and non-Black adults hospitalized for severe COVID-19 in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. METHODS: This retrospective cohort study of prognostic factors analyzed all …

  • Identificação das Regiões de Saúde do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, prioritárias para ações de Vigilância em Saúde

    Open AccessRenata Petzhold Mondini, Ivone Andreatta Menegolla et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2017

    O presente artigo identifica as Regiões de Saúde do Rio Grande do Sul (RS) prioritárias com vistas a implementar ações para o fortalecimento da Vigilância em Saúde. Estudo descritivo com dados da série histórica de 11 (onze) indicadores de Vigilância em Saúde do Caderno de Diretrizes, Objetivos, Metas e Indicadores 2016, do Ministério da Saúde pactuados pela Comissão Intergestores Bipartite/RS. Os indicadores selecionados são sintetizados para pr…