Racial density and the socioeconomic, demographic and health context in Brazilian cities in 2000 and 2010

Racial density has not yet been explored in studies of racial inequalities in Brazil. Thisstudy identified categories of racial density in Brazilian cities and described the living and health context in these categories in 2000 and 2010, when demographic censuses were conducted. Ecological study whi...

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Published in:Revista brasileira de epidemiologia 2019, Vol.22, p.e190036-e190036
Main Authors: Oliveira, Bruno Luciano Carneiro Alves de, Luiz, Ronir Raggio
Format: Article
Language:eng ; por
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Age Distribution
Aged
Brazil - ethnology
Child
Child, Preschool
Cities - ethnology
Female
Health Status
Humans
Infant
Life Expectancy - ethnology
Male
Middle Aged
Population Density
Race Factors - statistics & numerical data
Racial Groups - statistics & numerical data
Residence Characteristics
Sex Distribution
Socioeconomic Factors
Spatio-Temporal Analysis
Time Factors
Young Adult
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Summary:Racial density has not yet been explored in studies of racial inequalities in Brazil. Thisstudy identified categories of racial density in Brazilian cities and described the living and health context in these categories in 2000 and 2010, when demographic censuses were conducted. Ecological study which used skin color or race information from the last two censuses to calculate racial density (the ratio of people aggregated to the same racial group) of the Brazilian cities each year. Four categories of racial density (Brown; Mixed-race, predominantly black; White/Caucasian; and Mixed-race, predominantly white). Socioeconomic, demographic and health indicators were described to each category. The categories of racial density captured important inequalities throughout the census and also indicated the continuance of worse living and health conditions in the cities composed by Browns and mixed-race people, predominantly Black; better conditions were indicated in cities where White/Caucasians are predominant. The cities, composed mainly of Browns and mixed-race people, predominantly Black, presented younger age structure, worse human development indexes, greater social vulnerability, income concentration, infant and premature mortality (
ISSN:1980-5497
DOI:10.1590/1980-549720190036