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| Title |
Josué de Castro and The Geography of Hunger in Brazil
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Cadernos de Saúde Pública, November 2008
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| DOI | 10.1590/s0102-311x2008001100027 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Francisco de Assis Guedes de Vasconcelos |
| Abstract |
The aim of this article is to reinterpret the classic work Geografia da Fome [The Geography of Hunger], first published in 1946. The article provides a summary of the five food area maps and the main nutritional deficiencies in Brazil, based on Josué de Castro's original conception. Currently, the nutritional epidemiological profile identified by Josué de Castro, characterized by nutritional deficiencies (malnutrition, vitamin deficiencies, endemic goiter, iron deficiency anemia, etc.), overlap with chronic non-communicable diseases (obesity, diabetes, dyslipidemias, etc.). However, the complex and paradoxical issue of hunger is a persistently recurrent theme in Brazil. Given a series of current dilemmas, including the planet's ecological sustainability and the need to guarantee the human right to adequate, healthy nutrition, it is urgent to reawaken the struggle led by Josué de Castro for the adoption of a sustainable economic development model and a society free of poverty and hunger. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| France | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 2 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 2 | 4% |
| Sweden | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 53 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 23% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 11% |
| Professor | 6 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 9% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 10 | 18% |
| Unknown | 12 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 10 | 18% |
| Social Sciences | 7 | 13% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 9% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 9% |
| Environmental Science | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 13 | 23% |
| Unknown | 13 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 August 2019.
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#2,863,930
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#80
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#8,775
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#2
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