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Graduated in Applied Naturology from the University of Southern Santa Catarina (2017). Naturopath with clinical experience in the private health system. Individual micro-entrepreneur working in education and promotion of quality of life at work. Experience in data collection and interviewing in Ministry of Health programs. Master in Collective Health by the Graduate Program in Collective Health at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. Line of research in integrative and complementary practices and epidemiological data. Research around the use of medicinal plants and herbal medicines in the SUS, and National Policies for Integrative and Complementary Practices (PNPIC) and National Policy for Medicinal Plants and Herbal Medicines
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He holds a degree in Dentistry from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (1992), a specialization in Acupuncture from the Integrated Center for Studies and Research on Man (2003), a specialization in Public Policy from the State University of Santa Catarina (2005), a Master's degree in Public Health from Federal University of Santa Catarina (2007), PhD in Collective Health from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2014) and improvement in Preventive and Interceptive Orthodontics from the Abosc Professional Improvement School (2001). He is currently a journal reviewer for the Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil, journal reviewer for the Revista Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde, journal reviewer for Ciência e Saúde Coletiva (Impresso), Statutory Member of the Federal University of Fronteira Sul, journal reviewer for REVISTA DE SAUDE PUBLICA, journal reviewer for Cadernos Saúde Coletiva, journal reviewer for BMC Oral Health and journal reviewer for PHYSIS. JOURNAL OF COLLECTIVE HEALTH (ONLINE). He has experience in the field of Dentistry, with an emphasis on Social and Preventive Dentistry. Acting mainly on the following subjects: epidemiology, oral health, public health.
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Alexandra Crispim Boing is a pharmacist graduated from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (in 2004), specialist in Family Health (in 2005) from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Clinical Pharmacy from the Regional University of Blumenau (FURB) (in 2010) and with Executive MBA in Global Administration from ESAG/Universidade Independente de Lisboa (in 2006). She completed her first master's degree in Public Policy Management at the University of Vale do Itajaí (in 2008) and her second master's degree in Collective Health (in 2010) with a concentration area in Epidemiology, at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. His PhD in Collective Health was completed at the same university in 2013 and Postdoctoral at the Harvard School of Public Health (2014). She is the mother of 2 small children (02 years old and 05 years old). She was a CNPq researcher for the INCTi (Technological and Industrial Development DTI-II) from 2010/2013. In 2013 she was the technical field coordinator of the National Research on Access, Use of Medicines and Promotion of Rational Use (PNAUM). Between 2014 and 2015, she coordinated the national survey on the Evaluation of the Single Registry for Social Programs in Brazil, at the request of the Ministry of Social Development and the fight against hunger. She is a tenured professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and a professor at the master's/doctoral level of the Graduate Program in Collective Health (PPGSC) since 2014. She was a visiting researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health from 2018 to 2019. Since March 2020, including during her entire period of maternity leave, she has acted strongly in facing the pandemic - COVID-19 at the national, state and local levels, in different working groups, commissions and in scientific dissemination (with an account verified by twitter @AlexandraBoing), combating fake news, bringing science to the population through different media (with more than 100 participations in interviews in the main television and print newspapers in the country and in the state of SC- Jornal Nacional, Jornal Hoje, Jornal da Globo, Globonews, Folha de São Paulo, Estadão, NSCTV and Band) and in encouraging the inclusion and maintenance of girls and women in science. She is a CNPq scholarship holder to support the dissemination of knowledge. She is part of the Covid-19 Br Observatory, of the Brazilian Network of Women Scientists, is currently one of the coordinators of the ABRASCO Epidemiology Commission and President of the UFSC Epidemiological Monitoring Commission. She has already supervised 120 undergraduate / specialization / master's / doctoral / postdoctoral students. She is an associate editor for 3 international journals. She is president of the UFSC epidemiological monitoring commission. She is a reviewer for 25 high-impact national and international journals such as plos one and BMC. She is an ad hoc consultant for funding agencies and publishers. In 2018 she was a member of the Capes Teses Award evaluation committee. She coordinated 23 research projects, having received funding from development agencies and UFSC. She participated or coordinated 14 extension projects and 6 technological development projects. She has collaborations with more than 100 national and international co-authors, having published 76 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, 5 books and 8 book chapters, in addition to 3 working papers, 2 websites, several video tutorials, consultancies, lectures and interviews. She is the leader of the Pharmacoepidemiology Research Group and a researcher at the Study and Research Group on Social Inequalities in Health. His area of research interest is the surveillance of health inequalities, with a focus on assessing their magnitude and associated factors. In particular, it has been applied to the study of COVID-19, access to medicines and catastrophic health expenditures. She has experience in Public Health, Social Inequalities in Health, Public Policy, Epidemiology, Health Surveillance, Pharmacoepidemiology and Health Economics.
The aim of the present study was to describe the prevalence of the use of medicinal plants and phytotherapy in Brazil and the factors associated with their use. A cross-sectional study was realized based on the National Health Survey (PNS-2019) with a national approach. A total of 279,382 adults aged 15 and over were interviewed. The sample was probabilistic by conglomerates and self-representative capitals. The outcome was the use of medicinal plants and phytotherapy in Brazil. The independent variables were: macro-region, sex, age, income, self-reported skin color/race, and previous chronic disease. A prevalence of the use of medicinal plants and herbal medicines of 2.6% in the last 12 months was identified in the Brazilian population. It was found that the prevalence was higher in the northern region, among women, people aged 60 years or older, with higher incomes, and with the presence of chronic diseases.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5663-3371
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6400-3348
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7792-4824
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