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Brazil National Survey on Health and Nutrition 1989

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General Info
Original or alternative title 
Pesquisa Nacional Sobre Saúde e Nutrição
Provider 
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
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Geography 
Brazil (BRA)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
07/1989 - 09/1989
Data type
Survey:
  • Household
  • Nationally representative
Summary 

This one-time survey, abbreviated as PNSN, provides demographic, health, and nutritional information on Brazil's population. The nationally representative sample of 17,920 households was surveyed on topics of housing conditions, employment and economic activities, fertility and pregnancy, breastfeeding, nutritional programs, self-reported health issues, and health care use. Anthropomorpohic measurements were taken of 62,000 participants.

Keywords 
Alcohol use, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, Anxiety, Ascariasis, Assets, Birth weight, Blood pressure, Body mass index, Breastfeeding, Caesarean section, Child anthropometry, Child mortality, Diarrhea, Diet, Disability, Education, Electricity, Employment, FFQ, Family composition, Family size, Fertility, Fever, Headache, Health care use, Health education, Hearing loss, Height, Hookworm disease, Hospitals, Household deaths, Housing, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Idiopathic intellectual disability, Income, Live births, Malnutrition, Maternal age, Menstruation, Mental and behavioral disorders, Mental health symptoms, Place of delivery, Population, Pregnancy, Private health facilities, Private social assistance, Public health facilities, Public social assistance, Sanitation, School enrollment, Sense organ diseases, Stillbirths, Summary birth history, Telephones, Tobacco smoking, Transportation, Trichuriasis, Unintentional injuries, Vision loss, Vomiting, Waste disposal, Water supply, Weight
GHDx Entry last modified on: Aug 5, 2021