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    • Bilal, Usama; Alfaro Morgado, Tania; Vives, Alejandra (Oxford, 2021)
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Huertas Zurriaga, Ariadna; Palmieri, Patrick A.; Edwards, Joan E.; Cesario, Sandra K.; Alonso Fernández, Sergio; Pardel Domínguez, Lidia; Domínguez Cancino, Karen Aileen; Leyva Moral, Juan M. (BMC, 2021)
      Background Women living with HIV (WLH) lack evidence-based information about reproductive options while managing pressures from family, clinicians, and communities to give up the idea of having children. As the reproduction ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...