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Logros y desafíos del Programa Ampliado de Inmunizaciones en la región de las Américas
(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2000)
Use of m-Health Technology for Preventive Interventions to Tackle Cardiometabolic Conditions and Other Non-Communicable Diseases in Latin America- Challenges and Opportunities
(Elsevier, 2016)
In Latin America, cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality rates will increase by an estimated 145% from 1990 to 2020. Several challenges related to social strains, inadequate public health infrastructure, and underfinanced ...
A research agenda for helminth diseases of humans: Towards control and elimination
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
Human helminthiases are of considerable public health importance in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The acknowledgement of the disease burden due to helminth infections, the availability of donated or affordable ...
Towards a comprehensive global approach to prevention and control of NCDs
(BioMed Central, 2014)
Background: The “25×25” strategy to tackle the global challenge of non-communicable diseases takes a traditional approach, concentrating on a few diseases and their immediate risk factors. Discussion: We propose elements ...
The value of process evaluation for public health interventions: field-case studies for non-communicable disease prevention and management in five countries
(Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2022)
Complex interventions are needed to effectively tackle noncommunicable diseases. However, complex interventions can contain a mix of effective and ineffective actions. Process evaluation (PE) in public health research is ...
Association between socioeconomic status and health behaviour change before and after non-communicable disease diagnoses: a multicohort study
(Elsevier, 2022)
Background: Behavioural risk factors of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are socially patterned. However, the direction and the extent to which socioeconomic status (SES) influences behaviour changes before and after the ...
Screening in primary health care for the main chronic non-communicable diseases in Brazil
(OECD Publishing, 2021)
In Brazil, chronic non-communicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes and hypertension are of high public health importance. Brazil has already built mechanisms in the PHC sector to screen for some of the most epidemiologically ...