Ranking of immunization programs in Latin America, 2020 < em > Ranking < /em > dos programas de vacina ção na América Latina, 2020
CONCLUSIONS: The lower overall score in 2020 highlights the need to recover the Region's vaccination coverage rates. This analysis seeks to motivate countries to address pending challenges.PMID:38464876 | PMC:PMC10921906 | DOI:10.26633/RPSP.2024.15 (Source: Pan American Journal of Public Health)
Source: Pan American Journal of Public Health - March 11, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Mar ía Fernanda Rombini Romina Paola Mauas Nathalia Katz Anal ía Urueña Source Type: research
Institutional care in four Latin American countries: the importance of fostering public information and evaluation strategies
Rev Panam Salud Publica. 2024 Mar 8;48:e14. doi: 10.26633/RPSP.2024.14. eCollection 2024.ABSTRACTMore than 8 million older people in Latin America depend on long-term care (LTC), accounting for 12% of people aged ≥ 60 years and almost 27% of those aged ≥ 80. It is crucial to develop sustainable strategies for providing LTC in the area, including institutional care. This special report aims to characterize institutional LTC in four countries (Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica and Mexico), using available information systems, and to identify the strategies adopted to support institutional care in these countries. This narrative ...
Source: Pan American Journal of Public Health - March 11, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Patrick Alexander Wachholz Patricia Morsch Pablo Villalobos Dintrans Isabel Barrientos-Calvo Jorge Browne Omar Yaxmehen Bello-Chavolla Enrique Vega Source Type: research
Ranking of immunization programs in Latin America, 2020 < em > Ranking < /em > dos programas de vacina ção na América Latina, 2020
CONCLUSIONS: The lower overall score in 2020 highlights the need to recover the Region's vaccination coverage rates. This analysis seeks to motivate countries to address pending challenges.PMID:38464876 | PMC:PMC10921906 | DOI:10.26633/RPSP.2024.15 (Source: Pan American Journal of Public Health)
Source: Pan American Journal of Public Health - March 11, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Mar ía Fernanda Rombini Romina Paola Mauas Nathalia Katz Anal ía Urueña Source Type: research
Institutional care in four Latin American countries: the importance of fostering public information and evaluation strategies
Rev Panam Salud Publica. 2024 Mar 8;48:e14. doi: 10.26633/RPSP.2024.14. eCollection 2024.ABSTRACTMore than 8 million older people in Latin America depend on long-term care (LTC), accounting for 12% of people aged ≥ 60 years and almost 27% of those aged ≥ 80. It is crucial to develop sustainable strategies for providing LTC in the area, including institutional care. This special report aims to characterize institutional LTC in four countries (Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica and Mexico), using available information systems, and to identify the strategies adopted to support institutional care in these countries. This narrative ...
Source: Pan American Journal of Public Health - March 11, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Patrick Alexander Wachholz Patricia Morsch Pablo Villalobos Dintrans Isabel Barrientos-Calvo Jorge Browne Omar Yaxmehen Bello-Chavolla Enrique Vega Source Type: research
Did child obesity decline after 2016 food regulations in Chile?
Rev Panam Salud Publica. 2024 Mar 8;48:e16. doi: 10.26633/RPSP.2024.16. eCollection 2024.ABSTRACTWe estimated trends in the prevalence of obesity and overweight among Chilean primary and secondary students before and after Chile's 2016 regulations on the marketing and availability of foods high in energy, total sugars, sodium, or saturated fat. We used data from Chile's Survey of Nutrition, which measured the body mass index (BMI) of students in government-funded schools. Using BMI thresholds defined by the World Health Organization, we calculated the prevalence of overweight and obesity for each year from 2013 to 2019 amo...
Source: Pan American Journal of Public Health - March 11, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Paul T von Hippel Francisca Bogolasky Fliman Source Type: research
