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Socioeconomic status and perceived health-related quality of life in Chile
(MEDICC Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba, 2017)
INTRODUCTION Changes in the conceptualization of health and illness have led to development of theory and methods to study health-related quality of life. One instrument used frequently to measure this concept is the SF-12 ...
Private health insurance and utilization of health services in Chile
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2006)
This paper analyses the choice of private health insurance in Chile and how this relates to the utilization of health services. The results show the importance of some demographics on the insurance decision, particularly ...
Factors associated to risk of malnutrition amongst elderly women in low-income communities.
(2012-11-01)
Objective: The present study aimed to identify the prevalence and the factors associated with the risk of malnutrition in elderly women. Methods: The study deals with a cross-sectional design, with ...
Conceptualización y método para revisitar la gestión de la salud pública y la provisión de servicios de salud en los municipios de la Región Metropolitan
(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2020)
An appropriate conceptualization process, consisting of an in-depth reflection about the role of organisms responsible for primary health care, which in Chile are the municipalities, should be carried out. Such exercise ...
Systematic review of Latin American national oral health surveys in adults
(Wiley, 2018-08)
BackgroundOral diseases represent a main public health problem worldwide. There is scarce information about oral health indicators in adults in middle-income countries in Latin America and Africa. ObjectivesTo identify and ...
Activity behavior, nutritional status and perceived health in older Brazilian adults: Does the number of chronic diseases matter?
(Blackwell Publishing, 2017)
© 2017 Japan Geriatrics Society Aim: The present study examined activity behavior, nutritional status and perceived health in relation to the number of chronic diseases (ChrD) in a representative sample of Brazilians aged ...
Impact of anthropometric nutritional parameters on the university selection test in Chile: A multifactorial approach
(Elsevier Inc., 2019)
Objectives
Scholastic achievement (SA) is a multifactorial problem that depends on factors related to the child, the child's family, and the educational system. The aim of this study was to quantify the relative impact ...
Assessment of height as an indicator of population nutritional status Evaluación de la estatura como indicador nutricional poblacional
(1997)
Background: Chilean girls of middle and low socioeconomic levels are shorter than their European or North American counterparts. Aim: To challenge the hypothesis that undernutrition is the cause of the shorter stature of ...
Self-assessed oral-health status and quality of life of older Chilean
(Elsevier, 2013)
This study aims to examine the self-assessed oral health status and quality of life (QoL) of independent
living Chilean older adults, and their distribution by selected socio-demographic characteristics. The
study conducted ...
Access to health care in an age of austerity: disabled people’s unmet needs in Greece
(Routledge, 2019)
Since late 2009, Greece has been dealing with the effects of a debt crisis. The neoliberal principles embedded in the three structural adjustment programmes that the country accepted have required radical cuts in health ...