Desigualdades persistentes: a condição de saúde da classe média brasileira a partir do recorte de mobilidade social ascendente

Abstract

This study aims to understand and investigate possible inequalities in health conditions among Brazilian middle class individuals. Understanding that there is a strong correlation between class and living conditions, we start from the hypothesis that going through the ascending social mobility process does not guarantee the same health conditions at the destination class levels. In addition to refuting or confirming this hypothesis, comparing health conditions among middle-class individuals and individuals who inherited this social position from their parents, we propose a reassessment of the quantitative methods of measuring inequality and social mobility, building from there, some explanatory hypotheses for the results. Determining the mobility or social immobility by the occupation-instruction proxy, using family per capita income as a filter, we observe the health conditions through three dimensions (health promotion, health services use and health assessment), and the information correlation, produced from the database of PDSD (Social Dimension of Inequality Research) and field work with semi-open interviews.