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    • Bilal, Usama; Castro, Caio P. de; Alfaro Morgado, Tania; Barrientos Gutiérrez, Tonatiuh; Barreto, Mauricio L.; Leveau, Carlos M.; Martínez Folgar, Kevin; Miranda, J. Jaime; Montes, Felipe; Mullachery, Pricila; Pina, María Fátima; Rodríguez, Daniel A.; Dos Santos, Gervasio F.; Andrade, Roberto F. S.; Diez-Roux, Ana V. (Amer Assoc Advancement Science, 2021)
      We explored how mortality scales with city population size using vital registration and population data from 742 cities in 10 Latin American countries and the United States. We found that more populated cities had lower ...
    • Bilal, Usama; Hessel, Philipp; Pérez Ferrer, Carolina; Michael, Yvonne L.; Alfaro Morgado, Tania; Tenorio Mucha, Janeth; Friche, Amelia A. L.; Piña, María Fátima; Vives, Alejandra; Quick, Harrison; Alazraqui, Marcio; Rodríguez, Daniel A.; Miranda, J. Jaime; Diez Roux, Ana V. (Nature Research, 2021)
      The concept of a so-called urban advantage in health ignores the possibility of heterogeneity in health outcomes across cities. Using a harmonized dataset from the SALURBAL project, we describe variability and predictors ...
    • Pardell Domínguez, Lidia; Palmieri, Patrick A.; Domínguez Cancino, Karen Aileen; Camacho Rodríguez, Doriam E.; Edwards, Joan E.; Watson, Jean; Leyva Moral, Juan M. (BMC, 2021)
      Background: Sexual health is a multidimensional phenomenon constructed by personal, social, and cultural factors but continues to be studied with a biomedical approach. During the postpartum period, a woman transitions ...
    • Oliveira, Suelen Carlos de; Vieira Machado, Cristiani; Alarcón Hein, Alex René; Almeida, Patty Fidelis de (Abrasco-Assoc Brasileira Pos-Graduacao & Saude Coletiva, 2021)
      This article analyzes the configuration of public-private relations in Chile's health system between 2000 and 2018, focusing on organization and regulation, funding and service delivery. The following data collection methods ...
    • Celedón, Natalia; González, Cristian; Cuadrado Nahum, Cristóbal Alfonso (Medwave Estudios Ltd, 2021)
      Access to medicines constitutes a public health challenge worldwide. Promoting the utilization of generic medicines is one of the strategies that has been proposed to optimize pharmaceutical spending and thus allow ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Ducharme Smith, Kirstie; Mora García, Gustavo; Castro Mendes, Francisca de; Ruiz Díaz, María Stephany; Moreira, Andre; Villegas Ríos, Rodrigo Luis; García Larsen, Vanessa (European Respiratory Soc Journals Ltd, 2021)
      Background There is a large burden of COPD in the US. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between diet quality with lung function, spirometric restriction and spirometrically defined COPD in a ...
    • 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 ...
    • Canals Lambarri, Mauricio (Soc Chilena Infectología, 2021)
      Se revisa brevemente el concepto de inmunidad de grupo, poblacional o efecto “rebaño”, mostrando que algunas ideas popularizadas no corresponden al concepto original. Se establece la relación con los números reproductivo ...
    • Turner, Eduardo; Iturra, Sebastián; Paulsen, César; Olivares, Gabriel; Portilla, Mario; Canals Cifuentes, María Andrea (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, Chile, 2021)
      Background: Despite being introduced 20 years ago minimally invasive aortic valve replacement is only performed routinely in a minority of patients worldwide. Aim: To report the operative outcome of minimally invasive ...
    • Bella, Maribel; Binfa Esbir, Lorena; Carrasco Parra, Alicia; Cornejo Aravena, Claudia Alejandra; Cavada Chacón, Gabriel Alfredo; Pantoja Manzanarez, Loreto Beatriz (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, Chile, 2021)
      Background: Violence against women (VAW) is a violation of women´s fundamental rights and special attention must be paid during the gestational and postpartum period. Aim: To determine the prevalence of violence ...
    • Aubert, Josefina; Durán, Doris; Monsalves, María José; Rodríguez, María Francisca; Rotarou, Elena Sonia; Gajardo, Jean; Alfaro Morgado, Tania; Bertoglia Arredondo, Maria Paz; Muñoz, Sergio; Cuadrado Nahum, Cristóbal Alfonso (Pan Amer Health Organization, 2021)
      Objetivo. Comparar las propiedades diagnósticas de cinco definiciones de caso sospechoso de COVID-19 utilizadas o propuestas en Chile durante los primeros ocho meses de la pandemia. Métodos. Se analizaron las propiedades ...
    • Acurio Páez, David; Vega, Bernardo; Orellana, Daniel; Charry, Ricardo; Gómez, Andrea; Obimpeh, Michael; Verhoeven, Veronique; Colebunders, Robert (MDPI, 2021)
      A door-to-door survey was organised in Cuenca, Ecuador, to determine the prevalence of COVID-19 infection and adherence of the population to COVID-19 preventive measures. A total of 2457 persons participated in the study; ...
    • Cortés, Sandra; Martínez Gutiérrez, María Soledad; Anríquez Jiménez, Samanta (Elsevier, 2021)
      Chile's October 2019 popular revolt has again made human rights violations visible in the context of mass mobilizations. In terms of damage to the population's health, multiple eye injuries produced by kinetic impact ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Palacio, Ana; Luna, Camila; Maíz, Cristóbal; Blanco, Estela (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, Chile, 2021)
      Background: Weight regain (WR) after bariatric surgery is common. Several factors involved in WR have been identified, but there has been little research on specific eating habits such as eating snacks rather than regular ...
    • 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 ...