Júlia Moreira Pescarini

Biographic Data

ID882798
NAMEJúlia Moreira Pescarini
GIVEN NAMESJúlia Moreira
FAMILY NAMEPescarini
SIGNATUREPESCARINI J M
AFFILIATIONSLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
ORCID0000-0001-8711-9589
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS26
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT26
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Long-term Association of a Conditional Cash Transfer Programme and Maternal Mortality in Ecuador

    Open AccessSara Toros, Ronal Ruiz et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2026

  • Effects of hydro-meteorological and geological disasters on vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks and routine immunisation amongst children

    Open AccessIsabel T Barnidge, Andrêa J F Ferreira et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Hydro-meteorological and geological disasters can pose serious harm to community health, such as an increased risk of infectious diseases and related mortality. We conducted a scoping review to compile the available literature on the effects of hydro-meteorological and geological disasters on routine immunisation and vaccine-preventable disease (VPD) outbreaks among children and adolescents under 18 years. We searched Medline, Embase, Global Heal…

  • Brazil’s Bolsa Família conditional cash transfer and child malnutrition

    Open AccessIla Rocha Falcão, João Guilherme G Tedde et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    INTRODUCTION: Program (BFP)) with child nutrition nationwide in Brazil. METHODS: We used the Centre for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health Birth Cohort (baseline data from the National Registry for Social Programmes (CadÚnico) linked with live births and nutrition registries) to conduct a longitudinal population-based study between 2008 and 2015. This cohort study followed children from birth until 5 years old between 1 January 2008 and 31…

  • Tuberculosis and the climate crisis in Latin America

    Open AccessLara Goscé, Júlia Moreira Pescarini et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    box Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease of poverty and social inequalities, and its burden has been increasing in Latin America in the past decade

  • Short-term ambient heat exposure and low Apgar score in newborns

    Open AccessMichelle Del Carretto, Audrey Godin et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Exposure to high ambient temperatures near the time of delivery has been associated with adverse birth outcomes, but studies examining the impact on immediate newborn health remain limited. We used a time-stratified case-crossover design combined with a distributed lag nonlinear model to evaluate the short-term effects of ambient heat (0–1 day lag) on low 5-minute APGAR score (≤7; sub-categories: 6–7, 3–5, 0–2). Cases of low APGAR score among low…

  • Implementation and effects of social protection programs for children, older adults, and people with disabilities in Brazil and Ecuador

    Open AccessJúlia Moreira Pescarini, Ana L Moncayo et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    We conducted a scoping review to investigate planned (intentional) and unplanned (not intentional) effects of social protection on socioeconomic determinants of health (SDH) and health inequalities among children, adolescents, elders and people with disabilities, and their caregivers. We reviewed seven programs in (i) Brazil ( Programa Bolsa Familia (BFP) and Beneficio de Prestacao Continuada (BPC)), and (ii) Ecuador ( Bono de Desarrolo Humano (B…

  • Avaliação da qualidade do Sistema Brasileiro de Informações sobre Mortalidade (SIM)

    Open AccessPoliana Rebouças, Flávia Jôse Oliveira Alves et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2025

    O objetivo foi mapear evidências sobre a qualidade dos registros do Sistema de Informação sobre Mortalidade (SIM) por meio de revisão de escopo nacional com artigos publicados até abril de 2023 em cinco bases (PubMed, Embase, scopus, LILACS e SciELO). Excluíram-se estudos focados em causas específicas de óbito. Foram avaliadas dimensões como acessibilidade, clareza metodologica, cobertura, completitude, confiabilidade, consistencia, nao-duplicida…

  • The Minha Casa Minha Vida social housing programme and leprosy in Brazil

    Open AccessCamila Silveira Silva Teixeira, Júlia Moreira Pescarini et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    This study found a higher risk of leprosy associated with MCMVP that may reflect reverse causality. Our findings suggest the programme is, in fact, reaching the most vulnerable individuals, as intended in its objectives. Besides, the higher risk of leprosy among MCMVP beneficiaries even before receiving the benefit observed in sensitivity analysis may reflect residual confounding factors related

  • Associations of municipality-level income and racial segregation with individual-level tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Brazil

    Open AccessQanisha Hall, José Firmino De Sousa Filho et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2025Cited by: 1References: 32

    Background Residential segregation is considered a social determinant of health, but there is limited evidence of its impact on tuberculosis (TB). We investigated the associations between municipality-level income and racial segregation and TB treatment outcomes in Brazil. Methods We studied nationwide registries of new TB cases between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2019. TB treatment was dichotomised as unfavourable (ie, loss to follow-up, modi…

  • Ensaio Sobre Deficiência, Migração E Proteção Social No Brasil

    Open AccessFrancine De Souza Dias, Lenir Nascimento Da Silva et al.ARTICLECaderno CRH2025

    O ensaio discute as relações entre regulação migratória e assistência social, no tocante aos migrantes internacionais com deficiência. Nos apoiamos em documentos normativos nacionais e internacionais que mencionam imigração e deficiência, investigando os sentidos de proteção social que deles emergem. Enfatizamos o caráter eugênico e capacitista das normativas brasileiras de longa duração, aspecto que conjuga com desafios atuais, como: pouca reper…

  • Municipality-level measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine coverage and deprivation in Brazil

    Open AccessAudrey Godin, Júlia Moreira Pescarini et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    To better understand the declining rates of routine childhood vaccination in Brazil, we investigated the association between measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) first dose vaccine coverage and deprivation at the municipality level. Using routinely collected data from 5565 Brazilian municipalities from 2006 to 2020, we investigated the association between municipality-level MMR vaccine first dose coverage (i.e., as a continuous variable and as a per…

  • Vaccine coverage and effectiveness against laboratory-confirmed symptomatic and severe Covid-19 in indigenous people in Brazil

    Open AccessJúlia Moreira Pescarini, Ana Margarida Cardoso et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Lower coverage but similar Covid-19 VE among indigenous people than overall Brazilians suggest the need to expand access, timely vaccination, and urgently offer booster doses to achieve a great level of protection among this group

  • Socioeconomic risk markers of congenital Zika syndrome

    Open AccessEnny S Paixão, Qeren Hapuk R Ferreira Fernandes et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    While it is well known that socioeconomic markers are associated with a higher risk of arbovirus infections, research on the relationship between socioeconomic factors and congenital Zika syndrome (CZS) remains limited. This study investigates the relationship between socioeconomic risk markers and live births with CZS in Brazil. We conducted a population-based study using data from all registered live births in Brazil (Live Births Information Sy…

  • Inequalities in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors in Brazilian slum populations

    Open AccessJasper J L Chan, Linh Tran-Nhu et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Background Social and environmental risk factors in informal settlements and slums may contribute to increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). This study assesses the socioeconomic inequalities in CVD risk factors in Brazil comparing slum and non-slum populations. Methods Responses from 94,114 individuals from the 2019 Brazilian National Health Survey were analysed. The United Nations Human Settlements Programme definition of a slum was use…

  • Avaliação de desempenho do controle da tuberculose em municípios brasileiros

    Open AccessPriscila Fernanda Porto Scaff Pinto, Beatriz Pinheiro Schindler dos Santos et…ARTICLERevista de Saúde Pública2022

    OBJETIVO Avaliar o desempenho no controle da tuberculose dos municípios brasileiros. MÉTODOS Estudo ecológico com municípios brasileiros que notificaram pelo menos quatro casos novos de tuberculose, com no mínimo um caso novo de tuberculose pulmonar entre 2015 e 2018. Os municípios foram estratificados de acordo com a população em 300 mil habitantes e foi utilizado o método k-médias para agrupá-los dentro de cada faixa populacional segundo desemp…

  • Increasing tuberculosis burden in Latin America

    Open AccessOtavio T Ranzani, Júlia Moreira Pescarini et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

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  • Covid-19 no nordeste do Brasil

    Open AccessRicardo Arraes De Alencar Ximenes, Maria De Fátima Pessoa Militão De…ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2021

    Mesmo no período em que a pandemia de Covid-19 encontrava-se em crescimento no Nordeste do Brasil, iniciou-se a adoção de medidas de flexibilização do distanciamento social. O objetivo do estudo é o de avaliar a pertinência das propostas de flexibilização, tomando-se em conta a situação da pandemia em cada local e o momento em que foram adotadas. Tendo como referência as diretrizes da OMS, foram construídos e analisados indicadores operacionais p…

  • Máscaras de tecido em locais públicos

    Open AccessNaiá Ortelan, Andrêa Jacqueline Fortes Ferreira et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2021

    Acumulam-se evidências de que o uso de máscaras é uma medida indispensável de proteção à COVID-19, devido ao alto poder de transmissão do novo coronavírus por via respiratória, inclusive por indivíduos assintomáticos. Por sua vez, o uso das máscaras de tecido em locais públicos tem se consolidado como medida adicional de proteção às medidas de distanciamento social e higienização das mãos. Objetivou-se sistematizar as evidências científicas que j…

  • Métodos para avaliação da efetividade de vacinas para Covid-19 com ênfase em abordagens quase-experimentais

    Open AccessJúlia Moreira Pescarini, Camila Silveira Silva Teixeira et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2021

    A avalição da efetividade de vacinas é feita com dados do mundo real e é essencial para monitorar o desempenho dos programas de vacinação ao longo do tempo bem como frente a novas variantes. Até o momento, a avaliação da efetividade das vacinas para COVID-19 tem sido baseada em métodos clássicos como estudos de coorte e caso controle teste-negativo, que muitas vezes podem não permitir o adequado controle dos vieses intrínsecos da alocação das cam…

  • How to reduce household costs for people with tuberculosis

    Open AccessSuman Chandra Gurung, Bhola Rai et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021

    The aim of this study was to compare costs and socio-economic impact of tuberculosis (TB) for patients diagnosed through active (ACF) and passive case finding (PCF) in Nepal. A longitudinal costing survey was conducted in four districts of Nepal from April 2018 to October 2019. Costs were collected using the WHO TB Patient Costs Survey at three time points: intensive phase of treatment, continuation phase of treatment and at treatment completion.…

  • Epidemiological characteristics and temporal trends of new leprosy cases in Brazil

    Open AccessJúlia Moreira Pescarini, Camila Silveira Silva Teixeira et al.ARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2021Cited by: 1References: 23

    Our study aims to describe trends in new case detection rate (NCDR) of leprosy in Brazil from 2006 to 2017 overall and in subgroups, and to analyze the evolution of clinical and treatment characteristics of patients, with emphasis on cases diagnosed with grade 2 physical disabilities. We conducted a descriptive study to analyze new cases of leprosy registered in the Brazilian Information System for Notificable Diseases (SINAN), from 2006-2017. We…

  • Five insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Open AccessChristopher J L Murray, Cristiana Abbafati et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2020

  • Covid-19 no Nordeste brasileiro

    Open AccessLigia Regina Sansigolo Kerr, C Kendall et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2020

    No Brasil, a pandemia da COVID-19 tem sido severa nos estados das regiões mais pobres, como o Nordeste. A falta de políticas nacionais para controle da pandemia levou as autoridades estaduais e municipais a implementarem medidas de saúde pública. O objetivo deste estudo é mostrar o efeito dessas medidas na epidemia. A maior incidência da COVID-19 entre os nove estados do Nordeste foi registrada em Sergipe, Paraíba e Ceará. O Piauí, a Paraíba e Ce…

  • Medidas de distanciamento social no controle da pandemia de Covid-19

    Open AccessEstela Maria Leão De Aquino, Ismael Henrique Da Silveira et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2020

    A pandemia de COVID-19 tem desafiado pesquisadores e gestores a encontrar medidas de saúde pública que evitem o colapso dos sistemas de saúde e reduzam os óbitos. Esta revisão narrativa buscou sistematizar as evidências sobre o impacto das medidas de distanciamento social na epidemia de COVID-19 e discutir sua implementação no Brasil. Foram triados artigos sobre o efeito do distanciamento social na COVID-19 no PubMed, medRXiv e bioRvix, e analisa…

  • Austerity policies in Brazil may affect violence related outcomes

    Open AccessDaiane Borges Machado, Júlia Moreira Pescarini et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2019

    Economic crisis is often managed with austerity policies. These measures seem to burden the population disproportionately, with the poorer being more affected. This paper aims to investigate health outcomes performance after the recent Brazilian crisis and gauge whether that pattern also emerged. Public domain data from 2010 to 2017 was used, and it was found that suicide and homicide rates increased after 2014, while mortality by road traffic in…