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Magnesium sulfate is not used for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Mexico and Thailand as much as it should be

Bulletin of the World Health Organization
OBJECTIVE: In the past ten years effective treatments for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia have been evaluated and identified following large trials and systematic reviews. We investigated the extent of those effective interventions’ implementation.
Pisake Lumbiganon, A Metin Gülmezoglu, Gilda Piaggio, Ana Langer, Jeremy Grimshaw   +4 more
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To Be Brown in Brazil: Education and Segregation Latin American Style Colloquium - Relearning Brown: Applying the Lessons of Brown to the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century [PDF]

, 2004
As a scholar who studies civil rights movements from a comparative perspective, the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education1 decision causes me to query the power of Brown as a symbol of equality outside of the United
Hernandez, Tanya K.
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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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Health and economic benefits of achieving contraceptive and maternal health targets in Small Island Developing States in the Pacific and Caribbean

BMJ Global Health, 2023
Introduction Reducing unmet need for modern contraception and expanding access to quality maternal health (MH) services are priorities for improving women’s health and economic empowerment.
Caroline SE Homer, Jennifer Butler, Tom Walsh, Nick Scott, Dominic Delport, Howard S Friedman, Sherrie L Kelly, Debra ten Brink, Rowan Martin-Hughes, Olanike Adedeji, Davide De Beni, Federica Maurizio, Doretta Di Marco, Federico Tobar, Maria Pilar de la Corte Molina, Andre S Richards   +15 more
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Sustainable development: Theory and some simple simulations

PSL Quarterly Review
This paper develops a unified framework to analyze the environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainable development within the context of a center-periphery international system.
Jose Eduardo Alatorre, Gabriel Porcile, Fernando Sossdorf, Miguel Torres   +3 more
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Neo-Kaleckian models with financial cycles: A center-periphery framework

PSL Quarterly Review, 2018
The article develops a Neo-Kaleckian model that takes into account the impact of financial cycles on demand regimes. Both the financial instability hypothesis and the paradox of debt are considered, as well as both the upward and the downward phases of ...
David Guimarães Coelho, Esteban Perez Caldentey   +1 more
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Untitled: An exploration of anonymity in the Dominican Republic [PDF]

, 2018
Brittany Fulgione \u2718 has traveled to Central America and the Caribbean three times to contextualize social justice work in Latin America.
Fulgione, Brittany
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The invisible frontline: experiences of public health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and health emergencies in Colombia

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, frontline workers were widely recognized for their efforts, with an emphasis largely placed on clinical personnel providing individual care.
Sandra Martínez-Cabezas, Adriana Díaz del Castillo, Johana Linares-García, Natalia Niño-Machado, Alvaro J. Idrovo, Myriam Ruiz-Rodríguez, Catalina González-Uribe   +6 more
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Handbook for estimating the socio-economic and environmental effects of disasters. [PDF]

, 2003
Taken from Introduction: Disasters have a major impact on the living conditions of the population, the economic performance of the countries or regions affected, and on environmental assets and services, with consequences that go beyond the short term ...
Bradshaw, S., Bradshaw, S., Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)   +3 more
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Legacies of mistrust

PlaNext, 2021
National authorities across Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa have implemented various forms of fiscal decentralization over the past three decades with equivocal results. The design of such reforms haslong rested on theories based on the experiences
Gabriella Y. Carolini, Sarra Lynn Hess
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