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  • Combating non-communicable diseases: Potentials and challenges for community health workers in a digital age, a narrative review of the literature 
    Mishra, Shiva Raj; Lygidakis, Charilaos; Neupane, Dinesh; Gyawali, Bishal; Uwizihiwe, Jean Paul; Virani, Salim S.; Kallestrup, Per; Miranda, J. Jaime (Oxford University Press, 2019)
    The use of community health workers (CHWs) has been explored as a viable option to provide home health education, counselling and basic health care, notwithstanding their challenges in training and retention. In this ...
  • Diagnosis of typhoid fever using a string capsule device 
    Benavente, Luis; Gotuzzo Herencia, José Eduardo; Guerra, Jorge G.; Grados, Oscar; Guerra, Humberto; Bravo, Nora (Oxford University Press, 1984)
    Cultures were made from blood, bone marrow, stool and duodenal contents (obtained with string capsules) from 36 patients with bacteriologically proven typhoid fever on admission to hospital. Duodenal content cultures proved ...
  • Explaining covid-19 performance: What factors might predict national responses? 
    Baum, F.; Freeman, T.; Musolino, C.; Abramovitz, M.; De Ceukelaire, W.; Flavel, J.; Friel, S.; Giugliani, C.; Howden-Chapman, P.; Huong, N.T.; London, L.; McKee, M.; Popay, J.; Serag, H.; Villar, E. (BMJ Publishing Group, 2021)
    Covid-19 has exposed and exacerbated existing flaws in public health systems around the world. Shredded social safety nets and underinvestment in healthcare systems, compounded by conflicts of interest, dismissal of ...
  • A field trial of alternative targeted screening strategies for chagas disease in Arequipa, Peru 
    Hunter, G.C.; Borrini-Mayorí, K.; Ancca Juárez, J.; Castillo Neyra, Ricardo; Verastegui Pimentel, Manuela Renee; Malaga Chavez, F.S.; del Cornejo Carpio, J.G.; Córdova Benzaquen, E.; Naquira Velarde, Cesar Gabriel; Gilman, Robert Hugh; Bern, C.; Levy, M.Z. (Public Library of Science, 2012)
    Background: Chagas disease is endemic in the rural areas of southern Peru and a growing urban problem in the regional capital of Arequipa, population ~860,000. It is unclear how to implement cost-effective screening programs ...
  • The implications of COVID-19 for mental health status of an upper middle-income country, Peru 
    Mendoza Saldaña, J.-D.; Viton-Rubio, J.E. (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 ...
  • Incentives to attract and retain the health workforce in rural areas of Peru: A qualitative study 
    Huicho Oriundo, Luis; Canseco, F.D.; Lema, C.; Miranda, J. Jaime; Lescano Guevara, Andres Guillermo (Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, 2012)
    The study aimed to identify the main incentives for attracting and retaining health workers in rural and remote health facilities in Ayacucho, Peru. In-depth interviews were performed with 80 physicians, obstetricians, ...
  • Is participation contagious? Evidence from a household vector control campaign in urban Peru 
    Buttenheim, A.M.; Paz-Soldan Parlette, Valerie Andrea; Barbu, C.; Skovira, C.; Caldern, J.Q.; Riveros, L.M.M.; Cornejo, J.O.; Small, D.S.; Bicchieri, C.; Naquira Velarde, Cesar Gabriel; Levy, M.Z. (BMJ Publishing Group, 2013)
    Objectives: High rates of household participation are critical to the success of door-to-door vector control campaigns. We used the Health Belief Model to assess determinants of participation, including neighbour participation ...
  • Modeling an economic evaluation of a salt fluoridation program in Peru 
    Mariño, R.J.; Fajardo, J.; Arana, A.; Garcia, Carlos; Pachas, F. (Wiley, 2011)
    Objective: This article models the cost-effectiveness, from a societal viewpoint, of a dental caries prevention program using salt fluoridation for children 12 years of age, compared with non-intervention (or status quo) ...
  • Monitoring of HIV treatment in seven countries in the WHO region of the Americas 
    Belaunzarán-Zamudio, P.F.; Caro-Vega, Y.N.; Shepherd, B.E.; Crabtree-Ramírez, B.E.; Luz, P.M.; Grinsztejn, B.; Cesar, C.; Cahn, P.; Cortés, C.; Wolff, M.; Pape, J.W.; Padgett, D.; Gotuzzo Herencia, José Eduardo; McGowan, C.; Sierra-Madero, J.G.; CCASAnet (World Health Organization, 2015)
    Objective: To determine the prevalence of adequate monitoring and the costs of measuring CD4+ T-lymphocytes (CD4+ cell) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) viral load in people receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) in ...
  • Motivating provision of high quality care: it is not all about the money. 
    Lagarde, Mylene; Huicho Oriundo, Luis; Papanicolas, Irene (BMJ Publishing Group, 2019)
    Mylène Lagarde, Luis Huicho, and Irene Papanicolas discuss different strategies policy makers can use to motivate health providers in order to improve quality of care. The inclusion of universal health coverage as a target ...
  • Rapid diagnosis of tuberculosis with the Xpert MTB/RIF assay in high burden countries: A cost-effectiveness analysis 
    Vassall, A.; van Kampen, S.; Sohn, H.; Michael, J.S.; John, K.R.; den Boon, S.; Davis, J.L.; Whitelaw, A.; Nicol, M.P.; Gler, M.T.; Khaliqov, A.; Zamudio Fuertes, Carlos Eduardo; Perkins, M.D.; Boehme, C.C.; Cobelens, F. (Public Library of Science, 2011)
    Background: Xpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) is a promising new rapid diagnostic technology for tuberculosis (TB) that has characteristics that suggest large-scale roll-out. However, because the test is expensive, there are concerns ...
  • A research agenda for helminth diseases of humans: Towards control and elimination 
    Boatin, B.A.; Basáñez, M.-G.; Prichard, R.K.; Awadzi, K.; Barakat, R.M.; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; Gazzinelli, A.; Grant, W.N.; McCarthy, J.S.; N'Goran, E.K.; Osei-Atweneboana, M.Y.; Sripa, B.; Yang, G.-J.; Lustigman, S. (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 ...
  • A Review of State Public Health Emergency Declarations in Peru: 2014-2016 
    Bambaren Alatrista, Celso Vladimir; Del Socorro Alatrista, M. (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
    Peru has different legal mechanisms of emergency, one of which is the Public Health Emergency that is applicable when: there is high-risk for, or the existence of an outbreak, epidemic, or pandemic; the occurrence of cases ...
  • Socioeconomic inequalities in adult oral health across different ethnic groups in England 
    Delgado-Angulo, Elsa K.; Mangal, Munisha; Bernabé, Eduardo (BioMed Central, 2019)
    BACKGROUND: Ethnic inequalities in oral health among British adults remain largely unexplored. This study explored the role of socioeconomic position (SEP) in explaining ethnic inequalities in oral health; and the consistency ...
  • Towards a comprehensive global approach to prevention and control of NCDs 
    McKee, Martin; Haines, Andy; Ebrahim, Shah; Lamptey, Peter; Barreto, Lauricio; Matheson, Don; Walls, Helen L.; Foliaki, Sunia; Miranda, J. Jaime; Chimeddamba, Oyun; Garcia-Marcos, Luis; Vineis, Paolo; Pearce, Neil (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 ...

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