The expert highlights the possible reasons behind this scenario; see the main concern globally
Public health has surpassed crime and violence and has become the main concern of Brazilians. This is what emerges from a new survey conducted by the Ipsos Institute, a multinational company that carries out public opinion polls, and released last week. This scenario hasn’t happened since the pandemic COVID-19.
The search, called What worries the world? (which can be translated from English as “What worries the world?”), questions around 1,000 people from 29 countries, of different ages, every month about their main concerns in relation to your country.
Through a digital panel, participants select the three topics that they consider most worrying at that moment, including: public health; crime and violence; education; inflation, financial/political corruption; poverty and social inequality; taxes; climate change; terrorism and others.
As regards Brazilians, the latest survey, carried out from March 22 to April 5, 2024, highlighted public health as the primary concernsecond 42% of participants. This is an increase of more than 5 percentage points compared to March, which leaves health at a level of concern reached only during the Covid-19 pandemic.
According to the CEO of the Institute, Marcos Calliari, this result could be associated with the denguewhich has killed more than 1,800 people and is approaching four million probable cases in the country only in 2024, according to the Ministry of Health It is worth underlining that the number of cases is already equal double that recorded in the whole of 2023.
Furthermore, the registration of a case of cholera in Bahia About ten days ago, after 18 years without any cases being recorded in the country, according to Calliari, the alarm was raised.
As a result, public health concerns narrowly outweighed public health concerns crime and violence, indicated as the main concern by 41% of Brazilian participants. Then came the worry about the poverty and social inequalitycited by 37% of respondents.
It is worth highlighting that, in global perspective, public health was only the sixth topic of greatest concern, chosen by 23% of respondents. In first place, for the 25th consecutive month, is inflation (34%), followed by poverty and social inequality (30%), crime and violence (30%), unemployment (27%) and political-financial corruption (26%). %).
Is your country going in the right direction?
In addition to main concerns As for countries, the survey also asked people whether they believe that, overall, the country they live in is going in the right direction or not.
In Brazil, the The majority (53%) said they do not believe the country is on the right path, which had previously only happened in December 2023, when the level of dissatisfaction was 51%. In the opposite direction, 47% believe they see the country going in the right direction, a decline of 4 percentage points compared to the previous month.
Globally, the overall outlook is also negative, with 62% of the population believing that their countries are going in the wrong direction.
Source: Terra
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