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City-level impact of extreme temperatures and mortality in Latin America

Nature Medicine, 2022
Climate change and urbanization are rapidly increasing human exposure to extreme ambient temperatures, yet few studies have examined temperature and mortality in Latin America.
Josiah L Kephart, Nelson C Gouveia, Ana V Diez Roux   +2 more
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European Union Transregional Cooperation with Latin America: Perspectives, Opportunities, Constraints [PDF]

Современная Европа, 2023
The article focuses on modern development of the transregional cooperation between the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The study is based on official documents, on the European think tanks’ studies, as well as the conceptual ...
Violetta M. Tayar, Evgenii A. Ponomarev
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COVID-19 Response in Latin America

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2020
. Effective management of a pandemic due to a respiratory virus requires public health capacity for a coordinated response for mandatory restrictions, large-scale testing to identify infected individuals, capacity to isolate infected cases and track and ...
Patricia J. García, Alex Alarcón, A. Bayer, P. Buss, Germán Guerra, Helena Ribeiro, K. Rojas, Rocío Sáenz, N. Salgado de Snyder, G. Solimano, R. Torres, S. Tobar, R. Tuesca, G. Vargas, R. Atun   +14 more
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Predictors of shorter- and longer-term mortality after COVID-19 presentation among dialysis patients: parallel use of machine learning models in Latin and North American countries

BMC Nephrology, 2022
Background We developed machine learning models to understand the predictors of shorter-, intermediate-, and longer-term mortality among hemodialysis (HD) patients affected by COVID-19 in four countries in the Americas. Methods We used data from adult HD
Adrián M. Guinsburg, Yue Jiao, María Inés Díaz Bessone, Caitlin K. Monaghan, Beatriz Magalhães, Michael A. Kraus, Peter Kotanko, Jeffrey L. Hymes, Robert J. Kossmann, Juan Carlos Berbessi, Franklin W. Maddux, Len A. Usvyat, John W. Larkin   +12 more
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A Proposal of a Combined Convergence Regulatory Strategy Applied to Post-approval Changes by Latin American Countries, Reducing Workload and Allowing Continuous Improvement to Guarantee the Quality, Safety, and Efficacy of Medicines

Frontiers in Medicine, 2021
In recent years, post-approval changes (PACs) for medicinal products have increased faster than the national regulatory agencies can attend to without causing any negative impact.
Heraclio Rodriguez, Maria Lucia De Lucia
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Conducting Management Research in Latin America: Why and What’s in It for You?

Journal of Management, 2020
We make the case that conditions and timing are right and, despite some challenges, there are many benefits to conducting management research in Latin America.
Herman Aguinis, Isabel Villamor, S. Lazzarini, R. Vassolo, José Ernesto Amorós, D. Allen   +5 more
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Examining sex differences in the completeness of Peruvian CRVS data and adult mortality estimates

Genus, 2022
The production, compilation, and publication of death registration records is complex and usually involves many institutions. Assessing available data and the evolution of the completeness of the data compiled based on demographic techniques and other ...
Helena Cruz Castanheira, José Henrique Costa Monteiro da Silva   +1 more
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Obesity and COVID‐19 in Latin America: A tragedy of two pandemics—Official document of the Latin American Federation of Obesity Societies

Obesity Reviews, 2020
In May 2020, Latin America became the epicenter of the COVID‐19 pandemic, a region already afflicted by social disparities, poor healthcare access, inadequate nutrition and a large prevalence of noncommunicable chronic diseases.
B. Halpern, M. Louzada, P. Aschner, F. Gerchman, I. Brajkovich, J. Faria-Neto, Felix Escaño Polanco, J. Montero, Silvia María Marín Juliá, P. Lotufo, O. Franco   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Pulmonary arterial hypertension in Latin America: epidemiological data from local studies

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2018
Background Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a rare, progressive disease with poor prognosis. However, there is limited information available on the characteristics of PAH patients outside of North America and Europe.
Ana Beatriz Valverde, Juliana M. Soares, Karynna P. Viana, Bruna Gomes, Claudia Soares, Rogerio Souza   +5 more
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Spain and the internationalization of the economy

Ибероамериканские тетради, 2022
Since integration of the Spanish economy into the EU (since January 1, 1986), 35 years have already passed. During this period of time political and economic European map has undergone significant changes.
V. M. Tayar
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