Lorena G Barberia
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 896685 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lorena G Barberia |
| NOMBRES | Lorena G |
| APELLIDO | Barberia |
| FIRMA | BARBERIA L G |
| AFILIACIONES | Universidade de São Paulo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6319-543X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 6 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Federative Coordination and Inequality of Provision
The COVID-19 pandemic posed major challenges to federal systems, especially in balancing central and subnational responsibilities in education. This study introduces the Remote Education Program Index (REP Index), a novel metric to assess the quality and comprehensiveness of remote education policies adopted during the pandemic. Drawing on the Brazilian case, we evaluate daily data from all 27 subnational units between March 2020 and December 202…
The Cycle Continues
This study examines how theoretically driven indicators modify our understanding of transition dynamics in Latin America. Our indicators show that a noticeable wave of reversion to authoritarian rule in Latin America occurred during the last two decades. Moreover, unlike the past, where authoritarian regimes were established with military coups, the Democracy-Dictatorship Reprise for Latin America (DDRLA) confirms that the region's recent experie…
How to incorporate social vulnerability into epidemic mathematical modelling
Factors associated with Covid-19 vaccine receipt among mobile phone users in Malawi
Malawi recommended COVID-19 vaccines for adults aged ≥18 years in March 2021. We assessed factors associated with receiving COVID-19 vaccines in Malawi as part of a telephone-based syndromic surveillance survey. We conducted telephone-based syndromic surveillance surveys with questions on COVID-19 vaccine receipt among adults (≥18 years old) upon verbal consent from July 2021 to April 2022. We used random digit dialing to select mobile phone numb…
Spatial clusters and social inequities in Covid-19 vaccine coverage among children in Brazil
This study examined the spatial distribution and social inequalities in COVID-19 vaccine coverage among children aged 5-11 in Brazil. First and second dose vaccine coverage was calculated for all Brazilian municipalities and analyzed by geographic region and deciles based on human development index (HDI-M) and expected years of schooling at 18 years of age. Multilevel models were used to determine the variance partition coefficient, and bivariate…
An assessment of the public health surveillance strategy based on molecular testing during three major pandemic waves of Covid-19 in Brazil
A national laboratory-based surveillance system was adapted to monitor the situation of SARS-CoV-2 in Brazil. The objective of the study was to compare the challenges in implementing COVID-19 surveillance strategies based on the Ministry of Health’s (MoH) distribution of RT-PCR tests to different types of laboratories. This retrospective study analyzed the MoH’s testing policies and distribution of RT-PCR tests to laboratories during the first, s…
Quasi-experimental evaluation of national border closures on Covid-19 transmission
With over 200 pandemic threats emerging every year, the efficacy of closing national borders to control the transmission of disease in the first months of a pandemic remains a critically important question. Previous studies offer conflicting evidence for the potential effects of these closures on COVID-19 transmission and no study has yet empirically evaluated the global impact of border closures using quasi-experimental methods and real-world da…
Best practices in the African Medicines Regulatory Harmonization initiative
In the African Medicines Regulatory Harmonization initiative, national regulatory authorities (NRAs) within each of Africa’s regional economic communities coordinate their activities, rely on the work of one another and other trusted regulatory authorities, and apply other principles of smart regulation. The first regional medicines regulatory harmonization (MRH) initiative in Africa was launched in 2012, with the goal of accelerating access to q…
The Brazilian vaccine divide
This study aims to assess the progress of geographic, socioeconomic, and demographic disparities in Covid-19 vaccination coverage in Brazil over the first two years of the vaccination campaign. Data from the National Immunization Program Information System were used to estimate covid-19 vaccine coverage. Brazilian municipalities were divided into two groups based on their vaccine coverage for the booster dose. The first group comprised 20% of mun…
Policies and resources for strengthening of emergency and critical care services in the context of the global Covid-19 pandemic in Kenya
Critical illnesses cause several million deaths annually, with many of these occurring in low-resource settings like Kenya. Great efforts have been made worldwide to scale up critical care to reduce deaths from COVID-19. Lower income countries with fragile health systems may not have had sufficient resources to upscale their critical care. We aimed to review how efforts to strengthen emergency and critical care were operationalised during the pan…
All-cause excess mortality across 90 municipalities in Gujarat, India, during the Covid-19 pandemic (March 2020-April 2021)
Official COVID-19 mortality statistics are strongly influenced by local diagnostic capacity, strength of the healthcare and vital registration systems, and death certification criteria and capacity, often resulting in significant undercounting of COVID-19 attributable deaths. Excess mortality, which is defined as the increase in observed death counts compared to a baseline expectation, provides an alternate measure of the mortality shock—both dir…
The Relationship between Ideology and Covid-19 Deaths
Several recent studies have investigated if support for Jair Bolsonaro in the presidential election of 2018 is positively associated with COVID-19 infections and deaths in Brazil. In these studies, COVID-19 outcomes in 2020 and 2021 are the dependent variables, and votes for Jair Bolsonaro in the 2018 presidential election (as a proxy for ideology) are the key explanatory variable. This article discusses why ecological research designs are diffic…
Spatiotemporal pattern of Covid-19 spread in Brazil
Unmitigated spread in Brazil Despite an extensive network of primary care availability, Brazil has suffered profoundly during the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic. Using daily data from state health offices, Castro et al. analyzed the pattern of spread of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the country from February to October 2020. Clusters of deaths before cases became apparent indicated unmitigated spread. SARS-Co…
The auxílio emergencial and stringent social distancing policies in Brazil
Non-pharmaceutical interventions to increase physical distancing have been instrumental in mitigating the spread of COVID-19. Governments have enacted stringent public health policies that impose limits on mobility outside the household. However, for containment policies to be effective, there is a growing understanding that emergency aid programs must be designed to ensure that the most vulnerable receive financial and in-kind aid resources to s…
The effect of state-level social distancing policy stringency on mobility in the states of Brazil
In Brazil, sub-national governments have played a particularly important role as the key actors implementing non-pharmaceutical interventions to halt the spread of COVID-19. Building on the methodology proposed by the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT), we coded the stringency levels of state-level school, commerce, services, industry, public gathering, and private event closure policies and describe these actions’ duration at t…
Should I stay or should I go? Embracing causal heterogeneity in the study of pandemic policy and citizen behavior
Objective To test for multicausality between government policy, health outcomes, economic performance, and citizen behavior during the COVID‐19 global pandemic. Methods We perform Granger‐causality tests to explore the interrelationship between four endogenous variables, social distancing policy, home isolation, balance rate, and average weekly COVID‐19 deaths, in the 26 states of Brazil. As exogenous variables, we included a linear time trend an…
The political science of Covid‐19
Political decisions, constellations, and behaviors exert a large influence of the dynamics of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (Sars‐CoV‐2) pandemic. Politics influences the choice of containment policies and the compliance with these policies—and therefore ultimately the epidemiological situation in each country, state, district, or even neighborhood. This introduction puts the articles collected in this special issue into the…
De que maneira a ideologia afeta a disposição a se vacinar contra o Sars-Cov-2
Desde o início da pandemia de covid-19, houve grande interesse acerca do papel intermediário exercido pela política e da maneira pela qual ela afeta decisões governamentais e individuais sobre o desenvolvimento e a procura por vacinas, bem como da implementação da vacinação. Um fator adicional que tem contribuído para a politização desses processos tem sido a difusão de informações falsas através das mídias sociais relacionadas ao vírus e às vaci…
Economic Voting in Brazil’s Gubernatorial Elections, 1994–2014
In this article, we provide new evidence that contributes to our understanding of the conditions which influence the existence and degree of economic voting in subnational elections in a multiparty context in a developing democracy. Based on data from Brazilian gubernatorial elections held between 1994 and 2014, we find confirmation, in the case of a developing democracy, of conclusions reached in other studies of developed democracies: that subn…
Expert-Driven and Citational Approaches to Assessing Journal Publications of Brazilian Political Scientists
In this study, we seek to contribute to discussions on how the quality of academic production in the field of political science should be evaluated using Brazil as a case study. We contrast the 'expert-driven approach' that is followed by CAPES, an agency of the Brazilian federal government with the 'citational' approach, which is based on the ranking of journals by mainstream indices of scientific research impact. With data provided by CAPES fro…
Governance in managing public health resources in Brazilian municipalities
This study contributes to the health governance discussion by presenting a new data set that allows for comparisons of the management of health resources among Brazilian municipalities. Research on Brazil is particularly important as the provision of health services was decentralized in 1988 and since then municipalities have been given greater responsibilities for the management of fiscal resources for public health service provision. Based on d…
Debating U.S.-Cuban Relations
1. Introduction Jorge I. Dominguez and Rafael Hernandez 2. Intimate Enemies: Paradoxes in the Conflict between the United States and Cuba Rafael Hernandez 3. Reshaping the Relations between the United States and Cuba Jorge I. Dominguez 4. Cuba's National Security vis-a-vis the United States: Conflict or Cooperation? Carlos Alzugaray Treto 5. Cuban-United States Cooperation in the Defence and Security Fields: Where Are We? Where Might We Be Able t…
Local economic development
Grounding Immigrant Generations in History
The two paradigms for analyzing immigrant experiences, “assimilationist” and “transnationalist,” leave unanalyzed important differences in immigrant adaptation rooted in different historical generational experiences. This article analyzes the importance of a historically grounded generational frame of analysis. It captures differences in views and involvements between two cohorts of first generation émigrés. Empirically, the study focuses on diff…
Grounding Immigrant Generations in History
The two paradigms for analyzing immigrant experiences, “assimilationist” and “transnationalist,” leave unanalyzed important differences in immigrant adaptation rooted in different historical generational experiences. This article analyzes the importance of a historically grounded generational frame of analysis. It captures differences in views and involvements between two cohorts of first generation émigrés. Empirically, the study focuses on diff…
The political science of Covid‐19
Political decisions, constellations, and behaviors exert a large influence of the dynamics of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (Sars‐CoV‐2) pandemic. Politics influences the choice of containment policies and the compliance with these policies—and therefore ultimately the epidemiological situation in each country, state, district, or even neighborhood. This introduction puts the articles collected in this special issue into the…
Governance in managing public health resources in Brazilian municipalities
This study contributes to the health governance discussion by presenting a new data set that allows for comparisons of the management of health resources among Brazilian municipalities. Research on Brazil is particularly important as the provision of health services was decentralized in 1988 and since then municipalities have been given greater responsibilities for the management of fiscal resources for public health service provision. Based on d…
Local economic development
The Relationship between Ideology and Covid-19 Deaths
Several recent studies have investigated if support for Jair Bolsonaro in the presidential election of 2018 is positively associated with COVID-19 infections and deaths in Brazil. In these studies, COVID-19 outcomes in 2020 and 2021 are the dependent variables, and votes for Jair Bolsonaro in the 2018 presidential election (as a proxy for ideology) are the key explanatory variable. This article discusses why ecological research designs are diffic…
Should I stay or should I go? Embracing causal heterogeneity in the study of pandemic policy and citizen behavior
Objective To test for multicausality between government policy, health outcomes, economic performance, and citizen behavior during the COVID‐19 global pandemic. Methods We perform Granger‐causality tests to explore the interrelationship between four endogenous variables, social distancing policy, home isolation, balance rate, and average weekly COVID‐19 deaths, in the 26 states of Brazil. As exogenous variables, we included a linear time trend an…
De que maneira a ideologia afeta a disposição a se vacinar contra o Sars-Cov-2
Desde o início da pandemia de covid-19, houve grande interesse acerca do papel intermediário exercido pela política e da maneira pela qual ela afeta decisões governamentais e individuais sobre o desenvolvimento e a procura por vacinas, bem como da implementação da vacinação. Um fator adicional que tem contribuído para a politização desses processos tem sido a difusão de informações falsas através das mídias sociais relacionadas ao vírus e às vaci…
Expert-Driven and Citational Approaches to Assessing Journal Publications of Brazilian Political Scientists
In this study, we seek to contribute to discussions on how the quality of academic production in the field of political science should be evaluated using Brazil as a case study. We contrast the 'expert-driven approach' that is followed by CAPES, an agency of the Brazilian federal government with the 'citational' approach, which is based on the ranking of journals by mainstream indices of scientific research impact. With data provided by CAPES fro…
Grounding Immigrant Generations in History
The two paradigms for analyzing immigrant experiences, “assimilationist” and “transnationalist,” leave unanalyzed important differences in immigrant adaptation rooted in different historical generational experiences. This article analyzes the importance of a historically grounded generational frame of analysis. It captures differences in views and involvements between two cohorts of first generation émigrés. Empirically, the study focuses on diff…
Local economic development
Debating U.S.-Cuban Relations
1. Introduction Jorge I. Dominguez and Rafael Hernandez 2. Intimate Enemies: Paradoxes in the Conflict between the United States and Cuba Rafael Hernandez 3. Reshaping the Relations between the United States and Cuba Jorge I. Dominguez 4. Cuba's National Security vis-a-vis the United States: Conflict or Cooperation? Carlos Alzugaray Treto 5. Cuban-United States Cooperation in the Defence and Security Fields: Where Are We? Where Might We Be Able t…
Governance in managing public health resources in Brazilian municipalities
This study contributes to the health governance discussion by presenting a new data set that allows for comparisons of the management of health resources among Brazilian municipalities. Research on Brazil is particularly important as the provision of health services was decentralized in 1988 and since then municipalities have been given greater responsibilities for the management of fiscal resources for public health service provision. Based on d…
Expert-Driven and Citational Approaches to Assessing Journal Publications of Brazilian Political Scientists
In this study, we seek to contribute to discussions on how the quality of academic production in the field of political science should be evaluated using Brazil as a case study. We contrast the 'expert-driven approach' that is followed by CAPES, an agency of the Brazilian federal government with the 'citational' approach, which is based on the ranking of journals by mainstream indices of scientific research impact. With data provided by CAPES fro…
Economic Voting in Brazil’s Gubernatorial Elections, 1994–2014
In this article, we provide new evidence that contributes to our understanding of the conditions which influence the existence and degree of economic voting in subnational elections in a multiparty context in a developing democracy. Based on data from Brazilian gubernatorial elections held between 1994 and 2014, we find confirmation, in the case of a developing democracy, of conclusions reached in other studies of developed democracies: that subn…
Spatiotemporal pattern of Covid-19 spread in Brazil
Unmitigated spread in Brazil Despite an extensive network of primary care availability, Brazil has suffered profoundly during the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic. Using daily data from state health offices, Castro et al. analyzed the pattern of spread of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the country from February to October 2020. Clusters of deaths before cases became apparent indicated unmitigated spread. SARS-Co…
The auxílio emergencial and stringent social distancing policies in Brazil
Non-pharmaceutical interventions to increase physical distancing have been instrumental in mitigating the spread of COVID-19. Governments have enacted stringent public health policies that impose limits on mobility outside the household. However, for containment policies to be effective, there is a growing understanding that emergency aid programs must be designed to ensure that the most vulnerable receive financial and in-kind aid resources to s…
The effect of state-level social distancing policy stringency on mobility in the states of Brazil
In Brazil, sub-national governments have played a particularly important role as the key actors implementing non-pharmaceutical interventions to halt the spread of COVID-19. Building on the methodology proposed by the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT), we coded the stringency levels of state-level school, commerce, services, industry, public gathering, and private event closure policies and describe these actions’ duration at t…
Should I stay or should I go? Embracing causal heterogeneity in the study of pandemic policy and citizen behavior
Objective To test for multicausality between government policy, health outcomes, economic performance, and citizen behavior during the COVID‐19 global pandemic. Methods We perform Granger‐causality tests to explore the interrelationship between four endogenous variables, social distancing policy, home isolation, balance rate, and average weekly COVID‐19 deaths, in the 26 states of Brazil. As exogenous variables, we included a linear time trend an…
The political science of Covid‐19
Political decisions, constellations, and behaviors exert a large influence of the dynamics of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (Sars‐CoV‐2) pandemic. Politics influences the choice of containment policies and the compliance with these policies—and therefore ultimately the epidemiological situation in each country, state, district, or even neighborhood. This introduction puts the articles collected in this special issue into the…
De que maneira a ideologia afeta a disposição a se vacinar contra o Sars-Cov-2
Desde o início da pandemia de covid-19, houve grande interesse acerca do papel intermediário exercido pela política e da maneira pela qual ela afeta decisões governamentais e individuais sobre o desenvolvimento e a procura por vacinas, bem como da implementação da vacinação. Um fator adicional que tem contribuído para a politização desses processos tem sido a difusão de informações falsas através das mídias sociais relacionadas ao vírus e às vaci…
All-cause excess mortality across 90 municipalities in Gujarat, India, during the Covid-19 pandemic (March 2020-April 2021)
Official COVID-19 mortality statistics are strongly influenced by local diagnostic capacity, strength of the healthcare and vital registration systems, and death certification criteria and capacity, often resulting in significant undercounting of COVID-19 attributable deaths. Excess mortality, which is defined as the increase in observed death counts compared to a baseline expectation, provides an alternate measure of the mortality shock—both dir…
The Relationship between Ideology and Covid-19 Deaths
Several recent studies have investigated if support for Jair Bolsonaro in the presidential election of 2018 is positively associated with COVID-19 infections and deaths in Brazil. In these studies, COVID-19 outcomes in 2020 and 2021 are the dependent variables, and votes for Jair Bolsonaro in the 2018 presidential election (as a proxy for ideology) are the key explanatory variable. This article discusses why ecological research designs are diffic…
An assessment of the public health surveillance strategy based on molecular testing during three major pandemic waves of Covid-19 in Brazil
A national laboratory-based surveillance system was adapted to monitor the situation of SARS-CoV-2 in Brazil. The objective of the study was to compare the challenges in implementing COVID-19 surveillance strategies based on the Ministry of Health’s (MoH) distribution of RT-PCR tests to different types of laboratories. This retrospective study analyzed the MoH’s testing policies and distribution of RT-PCR tests to laboratories during the first, s…
Quasi-experimental evaluation of national border closures on Covid-19 transmission
With over 200 pandemic threats emerging every year, the efficacy of closing national borders to control the transmission of disease in the first months of a pandemic remains a critically important question. Previous studies offer conflicting evidence for the potential effects of these closures on COVID-19 transmission and no study has yet empirically evaluated the global impact of border closures using quasi-experimental methods and real-world da…
Best practices in the African Medicines Regulatory Harmonization initiative
In the African Medicines Regulatory Harmonization initiative, national regulatory authorities (NRAs) within each of Africa’s regional economic communities coordinate their activities, rely on the work of one another and other trusted regulatory authorities, and apply other principles of smart regulation. The first regional medicines regulatory harmonization (MRH) initiative in Africa was launched in 2012, with the goal of accelerating access to q…
The Brazilian vaccine divide
This study aims to assess the progress of geographic, socioeconomic, and demographic disparities in Covid-19 vaccination coverage in Brazil over the first two years of the vaccination campaign. Data from the National Immunization Program Information System were used to estimate covid-19 vaccine coverage. Brazilian municipalities were divided into two groups based on their vaccine coverage for the booster dose. The first group comprised 20% of mun…
Policies and resources for strengthening of emergency and critical care services in the context of the global Covid-19 pandemic in Kenya
Critical illnesses cause several million deaths annually, with many of these occurring in low-resource settings like Kenya. Great efforts have been made worldwide to scale up critical care to reduce deaths from COVID-19. Lower income countries with fragile health systems may not have had sufficient resources to upscale their critical care. We aimed to review how efforts to strengthen emergency and critical care were operationalised during the pan…
Factors associated with Covid-19 vaccine receipt among mobile phone users in Malawi
Malawi recommended COVID-19 vaccines for adults aged ≥18 years in March 2021. We assessed factors associated with receiving COVID-19 vaccines in Malawi as part of a telephone-based syndromic surveillance survey. We conducted telephone-based syndromic surveillance surveys with questions on COVID-19 vaccine receipt among adults (≥18 years old) upon verbal consent from July 2021 to April 2022. We used random digit dialing to select mobile phone numb…
Spatial clusters and social inequities in Covid-19 vaccine coverage among children in Brazil
This study examined the spatial distribution and social inequalities in COVID-19 vaccine coverage among children aged 5-11 in Brazil. First and second dose vaccine coverage was calculated for all Brazilian municipalities and analyzed by geographic region and deciles based on human development index (HDI-M) and expected years of schooling at 18 years of age. Multilevel models were used to determine the variance partition coefficient, and bivariate…
The Cycle Continues
This study examines how theoretically driven indicators modify our understanding of transition dynamics in Latin America. Our indicators show that a noticeable wave of reversion to authoritarian rule in Latin America occurred during the last two decades. Moreover, unlike the past, where authoritarian regimes were established with military coups, the Democracy-Dictatorship Reprise for Latin America (DDRLA) confirms that the region's recent experie…
How to incorporate social vulnerability into epidemic mathematical modelling
Federative Coordination and Inequality of Provision
The COVID-19 pandemic posed major challenges to federal systems, especially in balancing central and subnational responsibilities in education. This study introduces the Remote Education Program Index (REP Index), a novel metric to assess the quality and comprehensiveness of remote education policies adopted during the pandemic. Drawing on the Brazilian case, we evaluate daily data from all 27 subnational units between March 2020 and December 202…
Medicine (15 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · COVID-19 epidemiological studies (12 obras) · Economics (12 obras) · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts (8 obras) · Geography (8 obras) · Pandemic (8 obras) · Economic growth (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (5 obras)