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    • Características clínicas y factores pronósticos de la enfermedad meningocóccica: un estudio de serie de ... 
      Matute, Isabel; Olea, Andrea; López, Darío; Loayza, Sergio; Nájera, Manuel; González, Claudio; Poffald, Lucy; Hirmas, Macarena; Delgado, Iris; Pedroni, Elena; Alfaro Morgado, Tania; Gormaz, Ana María; Sanhueza, Gabriel; Vial, Pablo; Dabanch, Jeannette; Gallegos, Doris; Aguilera, Ximena (Sociedad Chilena de Infectología, 2015)
      Introduction: Meningococcal disease (MD) is a major global problem because of its case fatality rate and sequels. Since 2012 cases of serogroup W have increased in Chile, with nonspecific clinical presentation, high case ...
    • Case-control study of risk factors for meningococcal disease in Chile 
      Olea, Andrea; Matute, Isabel; González, Claudia; Delgado, Iris; Poffald, Lucy; Pedroni, Elena; Alfaro Morgado, Tania; Hirmas, Macarena; Nájera, Manuel; Gormaz, Ana; López, Darío; Loayza, Sergio; Ferreccio, Catterina; Gallegos, Doris; Fuentes, Rodrigo; Vial, Pablo; Aguilera, Ximena (Centers Disease Control, 2017)
      An outbreak of meningococcal disease with a case-fatality rate of 30% and caused by predominantly serogroup W of Neisseria meningitidis began in Chile in 2012. This outbreak required a case-control study to assess determinants ...
    • Comparison of health examination survey methods in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, England, Scotland, and ... 
      Mindell, Jennifer S.; Moody, Alison; Vecino Ortiz, Andres I.; Alfaro Morgado, Tania; Frenz Yonechi, Patricia; Scholes, Shaun; González, Silvia A.; Margozzini, Paula; de Oliveira, Cesar; Sánchez Romero, Luz María; Alvarado, Andrés; Cabrera, Sebastián; Sarmiento, Olga L.; Triana, Camilo A.; Barquera, Simón (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Comparability of population surveys across countries is key to appraising trends in population health. Achieving this requires deep understanding of the methods used in these surveys to examine the extent to which the ...
    • Educational inequalities in cardiovascular risk factor and blood pressure control in the elderly comparison ... 
      Nazzal Nazal, Carolina; Shea, Steven; Castro Diehl, Cecilia; Alfaro Morgado, Tania; Frenz, Patricia; Rodríguez, Carlos J. (Elsevier, 2018)
      Background: Social determinants differ between countries, which is not always considered when adapting health policies and interventions to face inequalities in noncommunicable diseases and their risk factors. Objectives: ...
    • Proyección de la población adulta mayor con diabetes tipo 2 en Chile al año 2030 
      Alfaro Morgado, Tania (Universidad de Chile, 2015)
      El cambio en el perfil demográfico y epidemiológico a nivel mundial ha llevado a un aumento en la prevalencia de enfermedades no transmisibles y sus factores de riesgo, realidad de la cual Chile no ha estado exenta. En ...
    • Socioeconomic status and perceived health-related quality of life in Chile 
      Matute, Isabel; Burgos de la Vega, Soledad; Alfaro Morgado, Tania (MEDICC Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba, 2017)
      INTRODUCTION Changes in the conceptualization of health and illness have led to development of theory and methods to study health-related quality of life. One instrument used frequently to measure this concept is the SF-12 ...