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Remaining missed opportunities of child survival in Peru: modelling mortality impact of universal and equitable coverage of proven interventions
(BioMed Central, 2016)
BACKGROUND: Peru has made great improvements in reducing stunting and child mortality in the past decade, and has reached the Millennium Development Goals 1 and 4. The remaining challenges or missed opportunities for child ...
Countdown to 2015 country case studies: systematic tools to address the "black box" of health systems and policy assessment
(BioMed Central, 2016)
BACKGROUND: Evaluating health systems and policy (HSP) change and implementation is critical in understanding reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) progress within and across countries. Whilst data for ...
Understanding drivers of domestic public expenditure on reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health in Peru at district level: an ecological study
(BioMed Central, 2018)
BACKGROUND: Peru has increased substantially its domestic public expenditure in maternal and child health. Peruvian departments are heterogeneous in contextual and geographic factors, underlining the importance of disaggregated ...
Income gradients in oral health according to child age
(Wiley, 2015)
This study aimed to confirm whether the well-known income disparities in oral health seen over the life course are indeed absent in 9- to 11-yr-old children, and to explore the role of access to dental care in explaining ...
Child health and nutrition in Peru within an antipoverty political agenda: a Countdown to 2015 country case study
(Elsevier, 2016)
BACKGROUND: Peru is an upper-middle-income country with wide social and regional disparities. In recent years, sustained multisectoral antipoverty programmes involving governments, political parties, and civil society ...
Prioritizing research for integrated implementation of early childhood development and maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition platforms
(International Society of Global Health, 2017)
BACKGROUND: Existing health and nutrition services present potential platforms for scaling up delivery of early childhood development (ECD) interventions within sensitive windows across the life course, especially in the ...
Impact of a child stimulation intervention on early child development in rural Peru: a cluster randomised trial using a reciprocal control design
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2016)
OBJECTIVE: Stimulation in early childhood can alleviate adverse effects of poverty. In a community-randomised trial, we implemented 2 home-based interventions, each serving as an attention control for the other. One group ...
Enabling reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health interventions: Time trends and driving factors of health expenditure in the successful story of Peru
(Public Library of Science, 2018)
We compared expenditure trends for reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health (RMNCH) with trends in RMNCH service coverage in Peru. We used National Health Accounts data to report on total health expenditure by ...
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 ...
Niveles de insatisfacción del usuario externo en el Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño de Lima, Perú
(Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2012)
Objectives. To determine the changes in the levels of dissatisfaction of the external users of the Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño, in Lima, Peru. Materials and methods. Observational study based on a software to ...