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Public health investments and mortality risk in Brazilian peritoneal dialysis patients
(2020-01-01)
Background. End-stage kidney disease (ESKD) treatment is very costly and accounts for a significant percentage of public healthcare expenditures. Beyond direct costs, dialysis patients use other healthcare levels, but the ...
The implications of COVID-19 for mental health status of an upper middle-income country, Peru
(Elsevier, 2020)
Peru reported its first case of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on March 6, 2020 (Worldometer, 2020) and it has become the sixth most infected nation, with 814.829 cases and the second country with the highest mortality ...
Factors contributing to severe infection and mortality from severe sepsis and septic shock in elderly persons
(Instituto de Altos Estudios de Salud Publica, 2020)
The incidence of sepsis and its attendant mortality risk are both increased significantly with advanced age. Because the proportion of the population living beyond 65 years is expected to outpace population growth in ...
Differential mortality in COVID-19 patients from India and western countries
Background and aims: COVID-19 disease has been associated with disproportionate mortality amongst
world population. We try to elucidate various reasons for lower mortality rate in the Indian subcontinent
due to COVID-19 ...
Life expectancy and mortality in 363 cities of Latin America
(Springer Nature, 2021)
The concept of a so-called urban advantage in health ignores the possibility of heterogeneity in health outcomes across cities. Using a harmonized dataset from the SALURBAL project, we describe variability and predictors ...
Comparison of mortality attributable to tobacco in selected Latin American countries
(Universidad de Costa Rica. Centro Centroamericano de Población, 2019)
Global, regional, and national burden of mortality associated with short-term temperature variability from 2000–19: a three-stage modelling study
(Elsevier, 2022)
Background: Increased mortality risk is associated with short-term temperature variability. However, to our knowledge, there has been no comprehensive assessment of the temperature variability-related mortality burden ...
¿Ha disminuido la mortalidad por cáncer vesicular en Chile?
(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2001)
Water scarcity and birth outcomes in the Brazilian semiarid
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2015-01)
Roughly one-third of the rural population in developing countries lives in arid and semiarid regions, facing recurrent water scarcity. This is likely to become an even more common situation with climate change. This paper ...