Geografia da saúde e alimentação: vulnerabilidades de mulheres e crianças
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2025-07-31
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Casteluber, Daniel Louzada
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Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
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Contemporary changes in globais diets, characterized by the increasing replacement of fresh foods with ultra-processed foods, have had significant impacts on public health. The increased consumption of these products, rich in sugars, saturated fats, preservatives, colorings, and other additives, exposes people to worrying levels of food and nutrition insecurity and contributes to the rise in obesity. These dietary changes are linked to the rise in Chronic Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs), such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and hypertension, which, according to Fetal Programming Theory, have determinants during pregnancy. This dissertation aims to understand how hidden hunger relates to Critical Epidemiological Geography through the poor nutrition of women and children, fostering disease processes in peripheral countries like Brazil.To this end, based on the methodology of theoretical analysis within the historical and decolonial materialist perspective, a critical qualitative approach was incorporated, anchored in bibliographical and documentary research under the constant lens of metacriticism. To this end, we evoked epistemology through authors such as Friedrich Ratzel, Vidal de La Blache, Max Sorre, Georges Canguilhem, Michael Foucault, David Harvey, Immanuel Wallerstein, Josué De Castro, Amartya Sen, David Barker, and Jaime Breilh. In this approach, the research used food as a foundation to establish the interconnection between food, health, and disease, starting from the geography of Black women through the intersectional prism of the work "The Dump Room." The results demonstrated that the development of peripheral countries, marked by social inequities and following the agribusiness model and late industrialization, is inseparable from improvements in the nutritional conditions of children and women and the strengthening of food sovereignty in the territories. In this sense, it is urgent to establish effective and specific actions for pregnant women as a strategy for preventing NCDs. It became clear, through critical epidemiology applied to the analysis of the state of Espírito Santo, that agrifood regimes, combined with the neoliberal mindset of large corporations with state support, maximize their dividends by resorting to the sequestration of land rent, the agrochemical dependence of pesticide consumption, and the traditional epidemiology that prioritizes the treatment of diseases over the investigation of their social causes. The body of evidence discussed reinforces the hopelessness of challenging the privatization of profits and the socialization of losses, amid the deleterious effects of poor nutrition based on ultra-processed foods.
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Sistema agroalimentar , Fome oculta , Obesidade , Programação fetal , Doenças crônicas não-transmissíveis