Classe social, renda, escolaridade e desigualdade de saúde no Brasil

Abstract

The dissertation investigate efects of income increase and schooling on health condition. It has with the background and motivating scenario the progress framework through which Brazil that passes in the last twelve years, especially the expansion system of education and the income increase of subordinate segments. The study starts from allegations of brazilian sociologists to propose that this advances, while have created benefits for all social classes, little decreased the distance between them. The defended hypothesis is in such circumstances, the lower classes tend to larger health improvements. Considerable mechanisms provide reasonable explanation to framework. Aiming best understand them, the more general goal of the study consist in contrast impacts of income increase and instruction with a class situation. In other words, propose to investigate the efects of changes in this factors to events that the location of people in socio-economic structure belong the same. The work doesn’t examine the heath distribution over time. Instead, using logistic regression and statistical tools, it manipulates data and performs simulations (counterfactual frames) to point out the strength and nature of effects in changing situations. The outcomes, originating micro-data of National Research of Heath for 2013 and treated with the statistical program Stata, reveals that at the base of the socioeconomic structure, where resources are scarce, increases in income and schooling generate considerable gains. Among the privileged, the proximity of the good health limit, or ceiling effect, causes the increments to affect their situation much less intensely. Despite the absolute improvements that occurred in all extracts, the relative advances achieved by the subalterns do not close the asymmetries, because class maintains its capacity to operate protectively. Thus, even through gains in the above indicators, the health disadvantage of people located at the bottom of the pyramid is difficult to reverse. In this study, the measure corresponding to the response variable is the self-declaration of health status.