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(Wiley, 2018-07)ObjectiveThis study aims to address gaps in health conditions and unmet needs in daily activities between people with dementia (PWD) and without dementia in a developing country and to identify the variables associated ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2015)Background: Despite the interest in the impact of overweight and obesity on public health, little is known about the social and economic impact of being born large for gestational age or macrosomic. Both conditions are ...
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(Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2013)Re-democratization has transformed the social agenda and the role of the state in Latin America with a growing commitment to health equity and social justice, yet these aspirations are strained by the region's profound ...
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(1990)The health situation in Chile is analyzed. The influence of geographic, ethnic, racial, demographic, socio-economic and cultural factors is considered. Strategies for prevention depend on the epidemiologic status of ...
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(Int Aids Society, 2016)Introduction: Latinos living with HIV in the Americas share a common ethnic and cultural heritage. In North America, Latinos have a relatively high rate of new HIV infections but lower rates of engagement at all stages of ...
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(Wiley, 2020)Aims and objectives To explore differences in health outcomes between unpaid caregivers and noncaregivers living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Background Previous meta-analyses found worse health outcomes ...
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(Elsevier, 2020)Objective: Chile is an attractive case study because of the deep political changes that it underwent over a short period of time: from a universal health service (60s), through a neoliberal reform (70s) and onto a series ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2020)En el ultimo tiempo, se ha duplicado la cantidad de médicos titulados en el extranjero que trabajan en el sistema de salud chileno, tanto así que para el año 2019, esta cifra ascendió a 18.174 profesionales médicos ...
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(Cadernos Saude Publica, 2020)In the 1980s, during the military dictatorship, Chile was a forerunner in Latin America in radical health system reform, expanding the private sector's participation in health insurance and services provision and influencing ...
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(BMC, 2020)Background Scientific journals play a critical role in research validation and dissemination and are increasingly vocal about the identification of research priorities and the targeting of research results to key audiences. ...
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(Elsevier, 2017)The Chilean health system has experienced important transformations in the last decades with a neoliberal turn to privatization of the health insurance and healthcare market since the Pinochet reforms of the 1980s. During ...
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(W B SAUNDERS CO LTD, 2006-04)Objective: In the last decades, the epidemiological and demographic transition in Chile has resulted in a considerable increase in diet-related noncommunicable chronic diseases. The aim of this study was to determine the ...
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(Carfax Publishing, 1999)A total of 100 free-living urban pigeons (Columba livia) were captured in the city of Santiago, Chile, in order to evaluate, for the first time, their health status. Negligible antibody titres (1 to 3 log(2)) were detected ...
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(1995)OBJECTIVE. To identify the frequency of health events perceived by the population over 60 years of age in Santiago de Chile, to obtain information for health care programs tailored to needs. MATERIAL AND METHODS. During ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2014)The article conceptualizes the pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement policies related to financial coverage in the context of health systems. It introduces the pharmaceutical market as an imperfect one, in which appropriate ...
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(Sociedad Chilena de Nutrición, 2020)The aim of this study was to evaluate the antioxidant, antidiabetic, anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial activities of three edible seaweed extracts from Chilean coasts: Pyropia orbicularis, Ulva spp, and Durvillaea ...
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Health-related quality of life after pediatric liver transplant: Single-center experience in Chile (2013)Introduction Orthotopic liver transplantation is the treatment of choice for most terminal liver diseases in children. Currently, the improved survival of these patients is well documented, but their quality of life ...
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(2015)Starting in the late 1980s, many Latin American countries began social sector reforms to alleviate poverty, reduce socioeconomic inequalities, improve health outcomes, and provide fi nancial risk protection. In particular, ...
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(Elsevier Science, 2016)Background: Although evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean suggests that depression can be effectively treated in primary care settings, depression management remains unevenly performed. This systematic review ...
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(Hindawi Publishing, 2015)Objective. To determine the optimal cutoff of the homeostasis model assessment-insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) for diagnosis of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) in adolescents and examine whether insulin resistance (IR), determined ...
