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Public health agencies’ obligations and the case of Zika
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2017-10)
This article focuses on the initial reactions to the Zika epidemic by national and international public health agencies. It presents and analyzes some responses public officials made about sexual and reproductive health ...
Estimating Need, Demand and Supply in Primary Health Care Services: A Local Application in Argentina
(Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba, 2018-07)
To provide equal access, health care provision should be distributed across geodemographic space based on need. In Argentina, the social security, publicly funded health care and private health care subsectors are responsible ...
Argentinian digital health strategy
(IOS Press, 2020-06)
Digital Health is one of the three pillars for the effective implementation of Universal Health Coverage in Argentina. The Ministry of Health published the National Digital Health Strategy 2018-2024 in order to establish ...
Collective Health and Regional Integration in Latin America: an opportunity for building a new international health agenda
(Routledge, 2019-02)
From its origins, the Latin American Social Medicine and the Collective Health (LASM/CH) movements have focused on thinking about health from and for the region. After the implementation of neoliberal policies, social ...
Comparing Indigenous and public health infant feeding recommendations in Peru: Opportunities for optimizing intercultural health policies
(BioMed Central, 2018-11)
Background: The problem of childhood undernutrition in low-income countries persists despite long-standing efforts by local governmental and international development agencies. In order to address this problem, the Peruvian ...
Toward a holistic definition for Information Systems for Health in the age of digital interdependence
(Organización Panamericana de la Salud, 2021-11)
The article’s main objective is to propose a new definition for Information Systems for Health, which is characterized by the identification and involvement of all the parts of a complex and interconnected process for data ...
Chilean Digital Press Coverage of the Relation between Diet and Mental Health
(Molecular Diversity Preservation International, 2021-02)
Chile has a serious public health problem due to the high prevalence of both unhealthy dietary patterns and mental illnesses. Given that dietary quality is positively associated with the quality of mental health, it is ...
Quality improvement and emerging global health priorities
(Oxford University Press, 2018-04-20)
Quality improvement approaches can strengthen action on a range of global health priorities. Quality improvement efforts are uniquely placed to reorient care delivery systems towards integrated people-centred health services ...
Chagas and health promotion: Dialogue inspired by the Curitiba Statement
(Oxford University Press, 2019-01-23)
With the objective of providing an insightful analysis of Chagas disease in the world, the authors share their collective reflections about the current situation of this public health problem in: rural environments of Latin ...
Stakeholder involvement in the health technology assessment process in Latin America
(Cambridge University Press, 2018-06)
Objectives: Latin American countries are taking important steps to expand and strengthen universal health coverage, and health technology assessment (HTA) has an increasingly prominent role in this process. Participation ...