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Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2021 Objective. To appraise the presence and magnitude of inter- and intra-country health inequalities related to HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) among young females. Methods.
Juan Pablo Gutiérrez +1 more
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Looking back and moving forward: can we accelerate progress on adolescent pregnancy in the Americas?
Reproductive Health, 2017 Adolescent fertility rates in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) remain unacceptably high, especially compared to the region’s declining total fertility rates.
Sonja Caffe +10 more
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No person left behind: Mapping the health policy landscape for genomics research in the Caribbean
The Lancet Regional Health. Americas, 2022 Summary: The Caribbean has long been an under-represented geographical region in the field of genomics research. Such under-representation may result in Caribbean people being underserved by precision medicine and other public health benefits of genomics.
Jyothsna Bolleddula +7 more
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Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2020 A considerable number of clinical trials is being conducted globally in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including in low- and middle-income countries such as those in the Latin America and Caribbean region (LAC).
Sarah Carracedo +5 more
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Public spending on health care in Africa: do the poor benefit?
Bulletin of the World Health OrganizationHealth care is a basic service essential in any effort to combat poverty, and is often subsidized with public funds to help achieve that aim. This paper examines public spending on curative health care in several African countries and finds that this ...
F Castro-Leal, J Dayton, L Demery
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Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2022 Objective. To establish whether there was any difference in disease stage in patients with screening-detected colorectal cancer (CRC) in a Caribbean country. Methods. The mode of presentation (elective vs.
Shamir O. Cawich +5 more
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Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2020 Achieving health equity and addressing the social determinants of health are critical to attaining the health and health-related targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals.
Trevor A. Hassell +2 more
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Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2021 Objective. To report demographic and substance use characteristics and risk of road traffic injury (RTI) from alcohol use, cannabis use, and combined use in a sample of emergency department patients from two countries in Latin America and the Caribbean ...
Cheryl J. Cherpitel +6 more
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes +2 more
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Islands of data: cultivating an open data landscape for sustainable development in the Caribbean
Revista Panamericana de Salud PúblicaThe widespread digitization of information, advances in data processing and the emergence of internet-connected devices have led to a proliferation of data, often loosely referred to as big data.
Ian R. Hambleton, Selvi Jeyaseelan
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