Ciclo de vida e posição socioeconômica: contribuições sociológicas para o entendimento da relação entre desigualdade social e saúde no Brasil

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Carvalhaes, Flávio Alex de Oliveira
• Orientador(a): Ribeiro, Carlos Antonio Costa
• Banca de defesa: Cardoso, Adalberto Moreira , Silva, Nelson do Valle , Faerstein, Eduardo , Najar, Alberto Lopes
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia
• Departamento: Centro de Ciências Sociais::Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Políticos
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Desigualdade social; Saúde; Classe; Ciclo de vida
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Social disparities; Health; Class; Lifecycle
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15478

The main objective of this dissertation is the investigation of the relationship between the life course, socioeconomic status and health disparities in Brazil. We start by analyzing the literature that identifies the association of health with socioeconomic status. Convinced by the persaviness of this association, sociologists developed a theory that condensates an elegant explanation for this connection. This perspective, called the fundamental causes of diseases and mortality is presented in detail for the Brazilian audience. With the presentation of the literature about health disparities and the discussion about the fundamental causes, we justify the theme of this dissertation: the sociological study of health and health inequalities. In the following chapter, we investigate one of the dimensions that is, supposedly, one of the best ways available in the sociological perspective to study inequality, which is social class. We carefully present analytical perspectives about the theme and then we proceed to an empirical evaluation of the concept. In the last chapter, we make use of the class concept in our empirical evaluation of health disparities in Brazil. Not only we try to disentangle how socioeconomic status and health relate in the country, we also present a new perspective to its interpretation. Discussing life course perspectives, the accumulation of inequality and the intergenerational transmission of health inequality, we complete our analytical and empirical frame. Mobilizing this discussions, we try to show how health is a dimension that can only be understood if time is incorporated in its evaluation.