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    • Espinel Flores, Verónica; Vargas, Ingrid; Eguiguren Bravo, Ana Pamela; Mogollon Pérez, Amparo Susana; Ferreira de Medeiros Mendes, Marina; López Vázquez, Julieta; Bertolotto, Fernando; Vazquez, María Luisa (Oxford, 2022)
      Although fragmentation in the provision of services is considered an obstacle to effective health care, there is scant evidence on the impact of interventions to improve care coordination between primary care and secondary ...
    • Veas, Cecilia; Crispi Galleguillos, María Francisca; Cuadrado Nahum, Cristóbal Alfonso (Elsevier, 2021)
      Background: Gender plays a well-recognized role in shaping health inequities. However, the population-level health consequences of gender inequalities have not been measured comprehensively. The goal of this study was to ...
    • Pereyra, Isabel; Gómez Ayora, Andrea Ximena; Jaramillo Maureira, Karina Andrea; Ferreira, Augusto (Sociedade de Pediatria de Sao Paulo, Brasil, 2021)
      Objective: To examine the effect of birth weight and subsequent weight gain on children being overweight and obese in serial assessments of Uruguayan children living at urban areas. Methods: We used secondary data of ...
    • Ollé Espluga, Laia; Vargas, Igrid; Mogollón Pérez, Amparo; Freitas Soares de Jesús, Renata Patricia; Eguiguren Bravo, Ana Pamela; Cisneros, Angélica Ivonne; Muruaga, María Cecilia; Huerta, Adriana; Bertolotto, Fernando; Vázquez, María Luisa (Elsevier, 2021)
      Objective: To analyse the care continuity across levels of care perceived by patients with chronic conditions in public health care networks in six Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and ...
    • Zancheta Ricardo, Camila; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila; Smith Taillie, Lindsey; Quitral, Vilma; Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela Adriana (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Reductions on the sugars content of the food supply have been described after the initial implementation Chilean Labeling Law, but it is unclear if sugars were replaced by non-caloric sweeteners (NNS). We evaluated changes ...
    • Palmeiro SilvaI, Yasna K.; Ferrada, María Teresa; Ramírez Flores, Jorge Andrés; Silva Santa Cruz, Ignacio (Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil, 2021)
      OBJECTIVE: Analyze the incorporation of climate change and environmental health courses in the curriculum grids of Medicine, Nursing, Nutrition and Clinical Psychology undergraduate courses in Latin American universities ...
    • Carmona Huerta, Jaime; Durand Arias, Sol; Rodríguez, Allen; Guarner Catalá, Carmen; Cardona Muller, David; Madrigal de León, Eduardo; Alvarado Muñoz, Rubén Vladimir (BMC, 2021)
      Background: Access to mental health care is a worldwide public health challenge. In Mexico, an unacceptably high percentage of the population with mental disorders does not receive the necessary treatment, which is mainly ...
    • Deanna, Rocío; Merkle, Benthann Garramon; Chun, Kwok Pan; Navarro Rosenblatt, Deborah; Baxter, Ivan; Oleas, Nora; Bortolus, Alejandro; Geesink, Patricia; Diele Viegas, Luisa; Aschero, Valeria; Leone, María José de; Oliferuk, Sonia; Zuo, Rui; Cosacov, Andrea; Grossi, Mariana; Knapp, Sandra; López Méndez, Alicia; Welchen, Elina; Ribone, Pamela; Auge, Gabriela (Nature, 2022)
      Mentor relationships are crucial to retention, success, and wellbeing of women and underrepresented minority scientists in academia. A network of diverse mentors may support achieving long-term career goals, advancement, ...
    • Bilal, Usama; Alfaro Morgado, Tania; Vives, Alejandra (Oxford, 2021)
    • Laporte Uribe, Franziska; Arteaga Herrera, Oscar Germán; Bruchhausen, Walter; Cheung, Gary; Cullum, Sarah; Fuentes Garcia, Alejandra Marcela; Miranda Castillo, Claudia; Kerse, Ngaire; Kirk, Ray; Muru Lanning, Marama; Salinas Ríos, Rodrigo Alejandro; Schrott, Lothar; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea María; Roes, Martina (MDPI, 2021)
      The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed existing gaps in policies, systems and services, stressing the need for concerted global action on healthy aging. Similar to the COVID-19 pandemic, dementia is a challenge for health ...
    • Rodríguez Osiac, Lorena Cecilia (Sociedad Chilena de Nutrición, Bromatología y Toxicología, 2022)
    • Anigstein, María Sol; Burgos de la Vega, Soledad Antonieta; Medina Gay, Sebastián; Pesse Sorensen, Karen Andrea; Espinoza, Pamela; Toledo, Carolina (SAGE, 2021)
      La Promoción de la Salud (PS) es una función esencial de la salud pública que se ha puesto en tensión frente a la pandemia de la COVID-19, dado que los discursos y estrategias basados en la prevención y curación de la ...
    • Gomes, Tania A. T.; Dobrindt, Ulrich; Farfán Urzúa, Mauricio Javier; Piazza, Roxane M. F. (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Escherichia coli live as commensals in the intestines of humans and warm-blooded animals (Leimbach et al., 2013). Although most E. coli strains rarely produce disease in healthy individuals, pathogenic strains can cause ...
    • Cortés, Sandra; Burgos de la Vega, Soledad; Adaros, Héctor; Lucero, Boris; Quirós Alcalá, Lesliam (MDPI, 2021)
      BACKGROUND: Environmental risk assessments and interventions to mitigate environmental risks are essential to protect public health. While the objective measurement of environmental hazards is important, it is also critical ...
    • Vázquez Navarrete, María Luisa; Miranda Mendizabal, Andrea; Eguiguren Bravo, Ana Pamela; Mogollón Pérez, Amparo- Susana; Ferreira de Medeiros Mendes, Marina; López Vázquez, Julieta; Bertolotto, Fernando; Vargas, Ingrid (Public Library Science, 2022)
      Background Despite increasing recommendations for health professionals to participate in intervention design and implementation to effect changes in clinical practice, little is known about this strategy’s effectiveness. ...
    • Alfaro Morgado, Tania; Martínez Folgar, Kevin; Vives, Alejandra; Bilal, Usama (Springer, 2022)
      We estimated excess mortality in Chilean cities during the COVID-19 pandemic and its association with city-level factors. We used mortality, and social and built environment data from the SALURBAL study for 21 Chilean ...
    • Troncoso, Jonathan; González, Cristian; Mena, Francisca; Valencia, Angélica; Cuevas, Paulina; Rubio, Juan Pablo (Doyma, 2021)
      Objetivo: Caracterizar la situación actual del médico gestor de la demanda (MGD) en la atención primaria de salud (APS), desde las percepciones de aquellos que cumplen ese rol, sus pares médicos y los directivos de los ...
    • Pacheco, Jorge; Crispi Galleguillos, María Francisca; Alfaro Morgado, Tania; Martínez Gutiérrez, María Soledad; Cuadrado Nahum, Cristóbal Alfonso (BMC, 2021)
      Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, reductions in healthcare utilization are reported in different contexts. Nevertheless, studies have not explored specifically gender disparities in access to healthcare in the context ...
    • Castro Mendes, Francisca de; Ducharme Smith, Kirstie; Mora García, Gustavo; Alqahtani, Saleh A.; Ruiz Diaz, María Stephany; Moreira, André; Villegas Ríos, Rodrigo; García Larsen, Vanessa (MDPI, 2021)
      Increasing epidemiological evidence suggests that optimal diet quality helps to improve preservation of lung function and to reduce chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) risk, but no study has investigated the ...
    • Dev, Saloni; Kankan, Tanvi; Blasco, Drew; Le, PhuongThao D.; Agrest, Martin; Dishy, Gabriella; Mascayano Tapia, Franco Sebastían Armando; Schilling, Sara; Jorquera González, María José; Dahl, Catarina; Tavares Cavalcanti, María; Price, LeShawndra; Conover, Sarah; Yang, Lawrence H.; Alvarado Muñoz, Rubén; Susser, Ezra S. (Cambridge Univ Press, England, 2021)
      Background. Few studies provide clear rationale for and the reception of adaptations of evidence-based interventions. To address this gap, we describe the context-dependent adaptations in critical time intervention-task ...