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Decentralization Can Improve Equity, but Can It Be Sustained?

open access: yesHealth Systems & Reform, 2022
A major theoretical issue about health system reform involving decentralization has been whether it promotes equity of health system funding. An article by the principal author and others in 2003 showed that, under certain conditions and policies ...
Thomas J. Bossert   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transmission scenarios of major vector-borne diseases in Colombia, 1990-2016

open access: yesBiomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2017
Introduction: Vector-borne diseases account for more than 17% of all infectious diseases and annually they cause one million deaths worldwide. In Colombia, malaria, dengue, Chagas disease, and leishmaniasis are persistent endemo-epidemic events ...
Julio César Padilla   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

La situación del aborto en Colombia: entre la ilegalidad y la realidad

open access: yesCadernos de Saúde Pública, 2005
Este artículo describe la ilegalidad del aborto en Colombia cuya población forma parte del 0,4% mundial que vive en países donde el aborto está totalmente prohibido.
Ana Cristina González Vélez
doaj   +1 more source

Indicadores de calidad de la atención a neonatos con patologías seleccionadas: estudio piloto

open access: yesSalud Pública de México, 2018
Objetivo. Desarrollar y pilotar indicadores de calidad de la atención a neonatos con padecimientos relevantes en México (prematuridad, sepsis neonatal, asfixia perinatal e hipoxia intrauterina). Material y métodos.
Pedro Jesús Saturno-Hernández   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Azúcares adicionados a los alimentos: efectos en la salud y regulación mundial. Revisión de la literatura

open access: yesRevista de la Facultad de Medicina, 2016
Los azúcares adicionados se definen como los azúcares y jarabes que se agregan a los alimentos durante su procesamiento o preparación. El consumo elevado de azúcares se asocia con diversas patologías como sobrepeso, obesidad, alteraciones hepáticas ...
Claudia Constanza Cabezas-Zabala   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Repeated trends in altitudinal gradients of diversity: How habitat filtering and biotic interactions structure ecological communities

open access: yesJournal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
This study reveals that tropical butterfly communities show remarkably consistent elevational patterns of diversity and phylogenetic structure across regions with contrasting evolutionary histories, demonstrating how regional species pools and local ecological factors jointly shape biodiversity along altitudinal gradients.
Raphaël Fougeray   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the protection status and exposure to warming of Caribbean reefs with high functional potential

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the past decades, climate change has emerged as a major threat to global biodiversity, negatively affecting the integrity and functioning of ecosystems and the benefits they provide to people. To mitigate these impacts, it is essential to identify climate refugia that support the persistence of the structure and function of reef ...
Sara M. Melo‐Merino   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dependencia funcional y apoyo para personas mayores de México, 2001-2026

open access: yesRevista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2021
Objetivos. Identificar los factores asociados con la dependencia funcional futura de las personas mayores en México, así como con recibir o no apoyo para la realización de actividades básicas de la vida diaria (ABVD), y proyectar la prevalencia de la ...
César González-González   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Insights for conservation from the Ecological Knowledge Games project

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Environmental conservation research requires robust methods for collecting large‐scale behavioral data and engaging diverse stakeholders in decision‐making processes. We (Y.P., A.B.D., and N.B.) created EcoKnowGames (Ecological Knowledge Games), a transdisciplinary project that develops knowledge games for conservation science and data ...
Yuan Pan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Giardia lamblia infection is associated with lower body mass index values

open access: yesJournal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2010
This item has no abstract. Follow the links below to access the full text.
Carmen Duran   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

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