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Children and the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: a Caribbean perspective

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2022
This study aims to assess coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) surveillance methods, health resources, vaccination coverage and income stratification and quantify burdens of disease and death in children and adolescents in the Caribbean. The investigation
Tracy Evans-Gilbert, Paula Michele Lashley, Emmeline Lerebours, Corrine Sin Quee, Indira Singh-Minott, Maritza Fernandes, Joycelyn Walter Thomas, Beverly Nelson, Jozan Braithwaite, Ian Hambleton   +9 more
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UNA REFLEXIÓN DESDE LA PROVINCIA AL PROCESO DE REGIONALIZACIÓN DEL CARIBE COLOMBIANO

Dictamen Libre, 2015
The process of regionalization of the Colombian Caribbean has many eyes, as the actor who promotes, and as well as the creation of new municipalities and departments failed to meet promises and expectations they created, at the time, in populations ...
Miguel Chajin Flórez
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Adverse pregnancy and perinatal outcomes in Latin America and the Caribbean: systematic review and meta-analysis

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2022
Objective. To estimate the point prevalence and likely ranges of pregnancy-induced hypertension, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, low birth weight and preterm delivery in Latin America and the Caribbean, and evaluate the heterogeneity of the estimates.
Estela Blanco, Marcela Marin, Loreto Nuñez, Erika Retamal, Ximena Ossa, Katherine E. Woolley, Tosin Oludotun, Suzanne E. Bartington, Juana Maria Delgado-Saborit, Roy M. Harrison, Pablo Ruiz-Rudolph, María Elisa Quinteros   +11 more
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Student feedback about the integrated curriculum in a Caribbean medical school [PDF]

Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, 2014
Purpose: Xavier University School of Medicine adopted an integrated, organ system-based curriculum in January 2013. The present study was aimed at determining students’ perceptions of the integrated curriculum and related assessment methods. Methods: The
P. Ravi Shankar, Ramanan Balasubramanium, Neelam R. Dwivedi, Vivek Nuguri   +3 more
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Status of national policy on companion of choice at birth in Latin America and the Caribbean: Gaps and challenges

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a companion of choice during labor and birth, to improve maternal and perinatal outcomes and women’s satisfaction with health services. To better understand the status of companion of choice in Latin America
Bremen De Mucio, Lorena Binfa, Jovita Ortiz, Anayda Portela   +3 more
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Potential of LARC to recover loss in satisfied demand for modern contraception after the COVID-19 pandemic: a case scenario analysis of Brazil and Mexico

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2022
Objectives. To estimate inequalities in demand for family planning satisfied with modern methods among women in Latin America and the Caribbean, with an emphasis on Brazil and Mexico, and to calculate the scenario for recovery of modern contraceptive ...
Rodolfo Gómez Ponce de Leon, Maria Valeria Bahamondes, Franciele Hellwig, Aluísio Barros, Luis Bahamondes, Federico Tobar, Mariangela Freitas da Silveira, Moazzam Ali, Pio Iván Gómez-Sánchez, Jason Bremner, Martyn Smith, Suzanne J. Serruya   +11 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, Marina Plesons, Alma Virginia Camacho, Luisa Brumana, Shelly N. Abdool, Silvia Huaynoca, Katherine Mayall, Lindsay Menard-Freeman, Luis Andres de Francisco Serpa, Rodolfo Gomez Ponce de Leon, Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli   +10 more
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Socioeconomic inequalities in HIV knowledge, HIV testing, and condom use among adolescent and young women in Latin America and the Caribbean

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, Alejandra Trossero   +1 more
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10-year trends in noncommunicable disease mortality in the Caribbean region

Revista Panamericana De Salud Publica-pan American Journal of Public Health, 2019
Objective. Between 2006 and 2016, 70% of all deaths worldwide were due to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). NCDs kill nearly 40 million people a year globally, with almost three-quarters of NCD deaths occurring in low- and middle-income countries.
Hilda Razzaghi, Damali N Martin, Sarah Quesnel-Crooks, Yuling Hong, E. Gregg, Glennis Andall-Brereton, Vilma Gawryszweski, M. Saraiya   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Whale sharks of the western Caribbean: an overview of current research and cnservation efforts and future needs for effective management of the species [PDF]

, 2007
Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are seasonal visitors to four sites in the Western Caribbean, 3 of which are encompassed by the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.
Graham, Rachel T.
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