Chérrez-Ojeda, Ivan Vera, Carlos Vanegas, Emanuel Gallardo, Juan Carlos Felix, Miguel Espinoza-Fuentes, Fernando Chedraui, Peter Gavilanes, Antonio W. D. Mata, Valeria L.
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BMC Oral Health
BackgroundThe use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) provide the tools for enabling fast and reliable real-time communications, as well as the transfer of information between dental professionals and their patients. However, little is known about the frequency and preference of ICTs among Latin-American dentists. Our study aims to...
Davenport, Lauren
In this article, I review the social science literature on racial fluidity, the idea that race is flexible and impermanent. I trace the ongoing evolution of racial classifications and boundaries in the United States and Latin America, two regions that share a history of European colonization, slavery, and high levels of race mixing but that have es...
Meneses-Navarro, Sergio Freyermuth-Enciso, María Graciela Pelcastre-Villafuerte, Blanca Estela Campos-Navarro, Roberto Meléndez-Navarro, David Mariano Gómez-Flores-Ramos, Liliana
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International Journal for Equity in Health
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-2019) pandemic struck Latin America in late February and is now beginning to spread across the rural indigenous communities in the region, home to 42 million people. Eighty percent of this highly marginalized population is concentrated in Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru. Health care services for these ethnic ...
bonilla, carolina baccarini, lara novaes
Epidemiology seeks to determine the causal effects of exposures on outcomes related to the health and wellbeing of populations. Observational studies, one of the most commonly used designs in epidemiology, can be biased due to confounding and reverse causation, which makes it difficult to establish causal relationships. In recent times, genetically...
Turuba, Roxanne Pirkle, Catherine Bélanger, Emmanuelle Ylli, Alban Gomez Montes, Fernando Vafaei, Afshin
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Aging & mental health
Objectives: Our study aims to assess whether multimorbidity is an independent risk factor for the development of depression in older adults living in Canada, Brazil, Colombia, and Albania and examines differences in incidence of depression regarding social and psychosocial characteristics.Methods: The longitudinal International Mobility Aging Study...
Nakada, Liane Yuri Kondo Urban, Rodrigo Custodio
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The Science of the Total Environment
• Up to 64.8% decrease in CO concentrations (ppm) were observed in city center • Up to 77.3% decrease in NO concentrations (μg∙m−3) were observed in urban road • Approximately 30% increase in O3 concentrations (μg∙m−3) were observed • This is the first report on the impacts of lockdown on air quality in Latin America
Rodríguez-Morales, Alfonso J.
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Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Kouamé, Nathalie Meyer, Éric Viguier, Anne
Quels rapports les sociétés humaines entretiennent-elles avec leur passé et quels récits font-elles du temps révolu ? Pour ce premier volume de l’Encyclopédie des historiographies. Afriques, Amériques, Asies, 157 spécialistes représentant 88 institutions académiques en France et dans le monde explorent l’univers des productions humaines qui constit...
Millán-Oñate, José Millan, William Mendoza, Luis Alfonso Sánchez, Carlos Guillermo Fernandez-Suarez, Hugo Bonilla-Aldana, D. Katterine Rodríguez-Morales, Alfonso J.
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Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials
BackgroundCOVID-19 pandemics is a challenge for public health and infectious diseases clinicians, especially for the therapeutical approach that is not yet adequately defined. Amid this situation, investigational agents are being used, including chloroquine. We report here the clinical features and therapeutic course of the first reported patient w...
dos Reis, Rodolfo Borges Alías-Melgar, Alejandro Martínez-Cornelio, Andrés Neciosup, Silvia P Sade, Juan Pablo Santos, Marcos Villoldo, Gustavo Martin
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Cancer Control : Journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most frequent tumor among Latin American (LATAM) men. The incidence of de novo metastatic PCa is higher in LATAM than other parts of the world, and demographic changes in the region have increased disease burden. However, region-specific information regarding prevalence, progression, and treatment effectiveness is not c...
