Prevalence of chronic non-communicable diseases and multimorbidity among adults living in slums in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: a population-based survey
Our findings showed a high burden of CNCD and multimorbidity among people living in slums in a large metropolitan area in Latin America, highlighting an ongoing "neglected epidemic" that affect a substantial part of the urban population exposed to precarious living conditions and socioeconomic vulnerability.
Authors
- Claúdio J. Struchiner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2114-847X)
- Hugo Perazzo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0931-6418)
- Nádia Cristina Pinheiro Rodrigues (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2613-5283)
- Débora Castanheira
- Beatriz Grinsztejn
- Paula M. Luz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9746-719X)
- Guilherme Tegoni Goedert (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4759-1296)
- Carlos A. M. Costa
- Eduardo Mesquita Peixoto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5699-7290)
- Thiago S. Torres (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2557-601X)
- Lara E. Coelho (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7154-8151)
- Cléber Vinícius Brito dos Santos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5710-2866)
- Sandra Wagner Cardoso (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5230-0003)
- Breno Augusto Bormann de Souza Filho (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1700-8688)
- Daniel Csillag
- Amanda Echeverría-Guevara (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9130-8005)
- Valdilea Veloso
- Emilia M. Jalil
- Rodrigo T. Amâncio
Institutions
- Yale University (US)
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (BR)
- Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR)
- Hospital Federal dos Servidores do Estado (BR)
- Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública (BR)
- Fundação Getulio Vargas (BR)
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (BR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- International Journal for Equity in Health
- Published
- 2025-10-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-025-02599-9
- Primary Topic
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
- Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz