Francisco Winter dos Santos Figueiredo

Epidemiology and Data Analysis Laboratory, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, Santo André, Brasil

Publications

• Short communication   
  A New Perspective about How the Changes in Income are Associated with Breast Cancer Mortality
  Author(s): Francisco Winter dos Santos Figueiredo* and Fernando Adami
  
  Background: In many places, income and income inequality are studied as factors that influence people’s health. Many of the theories that associate income with health outcomes analyze the individual, the environment, and how income influences health, but not the effects of income on health. Main text: We present a new theory that explains how income change influences people’s health. We have based the example of breast cancer mortality and per capita income in Brazil, where the emerging socioeconomic development makes it a developing country with characteristics of developed countries. For this, we used two databases consolidated in scientific research: the atlas for human development in Brazil made available on the basis of the United Nations Development Program and the National Cancer Institute’s base o.. Read More»