Rodriguez, Alejandro Romero-Sandoval, Adriana Sandoval, Bernardo A. Romero, Natalia
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BMC Health Services Research
Background Knowledge of medical specialists' numbers and geographical distribution are essential for planning health services and health workforce supply. However, although the distribution of physicians is a significant concern for society and policymakers in Ecuador, no studies have evaluated the distribution of specialists in the country. This s...
Calvo, Joel
Senecio bonplandianus has been misinterpreted or overlooked for a long time probably due to the uncertainty of the provenance of the type material indicated in the protologue. Herein, this name is taxonomically clarified and treated as the priority name for the entity hitherto known as S. minesinus, which is placed in synonymy. New insights are als...
Ortiz, Patricia Vasquez, Yajaira Arevalo, Esperanza Van Der Stuyft, Patrick Agudelo, Esteban Londono
Optimal hypertension care and control at population level significantly reduces cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The study objective was to measure the gaps in the diagnosis, care, and control of hypertension in residents of an urban community in Quito, Ecuador. A cross-sectional population-based study with a sample of 2160 persons was perfo...
Estrella, Felix
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Sn Social Sciences
COVID-19 struck at the beginning of 2020, affecting, among others, the education industry. As a result, a lock-down quarantine was declared, and on-campus classes were suspended. Accordingly, emergency remote teaching (ERT) was set into motion to solve the education issue. This research aimed to obtain the reflections of 20 Ecuadorian polytechnic u...
López-Guerra, Víctor Manuel López-Núñez, Carla Vaca-Gallegos, Silvia L. Torres-Carrión, Pablo V.
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Frontiers in Psychology
Background The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) is the most well-known self-report measure to screen for depressive symptomatology, although discerning which is the factor structure that represents the best fit remains a challenge. Objective The aim of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties and factorial structure of the Spanis...
Rodríguez, V. Flores-Sanchez, M. Zambrano, C.H. Rincón, L. Paz, J.L. Torres, F.J.
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Heliyon
Composite indicator, Ecuador, Science, Technology, and innovation, ICSR.
Brusnahan, Anthony Carrasco-Tenezaca, Majo Bates, Benjamin R Roche, Rosellen Grijalva, Mario J
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International journal for equity in health
Access to professional health care providers in Loja Province, Ecuador can be difficult for many citizens. The Health Care Access Barrier Model (HCAB) was established to provide a framework for classification, analysis, and reporting of modifiable health care access barriers. This study uses the HCAB Model to identify barriers and themes impacting ...
Andrade, Livia I Viñán-Ludeña, Marlon Santiago Alvarado, Julio
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International journal of environmental research and public health
Excessive internet gaming in high prevalence is a very common problem that has been increasing in recent years, especially in teenagers and university students. However, there is a lack of psychometric evaluation for Internet Gaming Disorder in the Latin American context, particularly in Ecuador. This paper aims to examine the psychometric properti...
Waters, William F Baca, Martin Graham, Jay P Butzin-Dozier, Zachary Vinueza, Lenin
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BMC public health
Antibiotics are increasingly used throughout the world in food animal production for controlling and preventing disease and for promoting growth. But this trend also has the potential for promoting antibiotic resistance, which represents a threat to human, animal, and environmental health. The use of antibiotics and the potential effects of antibio...
Zambrano-Mila, Marlon Steven Freire-Paspuel, Byron Orlando, Solon Alberto Garcia-Bereguiain, Miguel Angel
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One Health
During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there were several reports of SARS-CoV-2 transmission from human to animals, mostly to companion cats and dogs but also to free ranging wild species like minks and deers. Under this scenario, SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in domestic animals to assess the risk of transmission between species have been suggested by th...
