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  • The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future 
    Romanello, M.; McGushin, A.; Di Napoli, C.; Drummond, P.; Hughes, N.; Jamart, L.; Kennard, H.; Lampard, P.; Solano Rodriguez, B.; Arnell, N.; Ayeb-Karlsson, S.; Belesova, K.; Cai, W.; Campbell-Lendrum, D.; Capstick, S.; Chambers, J.; Chu, L.; Ciampi, L.; Dalin, C.; Dasandi, N.; Dasgupta, S.; Davies, M.; Dominguez-Salas, P.; Dubrow, R.; Ebi, K.L.; Eckelman, M.; Ekins, P.; Escobar, L.E.; Georgeson, L.; Grace, D.; Graham, H.; Gunther, S.H.; Hartinger Peña, Stella Maria; He, K.; Heaviside, C.; Hess, J.; Hsu, S.-C.; Jankin, S.; Jimenez, M.P.; Kelman, I.; Kiesewetter, G.; Kinney, P.L.; Kjellstrom, T.; Kniveton, D.; Lee, J.K.W.; Lemke, B.; Liu, Y.; Liu, Z.; Lott, M.; Lowe, R.; Martinez-Urtaza, J.; Maslin, M.; McAllister, L.; McMichael, C.; Mi, Z.; Milner, J.; Minor, K.; Mohajeri, N.; Moradi-Lakeh, M.; Morrissey, K.; Munzert, S.; Murray, K.A.; Neville, T.; Nilsson, M.; Obradovich, N.; Sewe, M.O.; Oreszczyn, T.; Otto, M.; Owfi, F.; Pearman, O.; Pencheon, D.; Rabbaniha, M.; Robinson, E.; Rocklöv, J.; Salas, R.N.; Semenza, J.C.; Sherman, J.; Shi, L.; Springmann, M.; Tabatabaei, M.; Taylor, J.; Trinanes, J.; Shumake-Guillemot, J.; Vu, B.; Wagner, F.; Wilkinson, P.; Winning, M.; Yglesias, M.; Zhang, S.; Gong, P.; Montgomery, H.; Costello, A.; Hamilton, I. (Elsevier, 2021)
    The Lancet Countdown is an international collaboration that independently monitors the health consequences of a changing climate. Publishing updated, new, and improved indicators each year, the Lancet Countdown represents ...
  • Addressing NCDs: Is it really a global coalition? 
    Carrillo Larco, Rodrigo Martín; Demaio, Alessandro R.; Miranda, J. Jaime (Elsevier, 2013)
    The Lancet, in its excellent Series,1 acknowledged the importance of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), particularly in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). These Series stress, among many important points, the ...
  • Amazonian malaria: Asymptomatic human reservoirs, diagnostic challenges, environmentally driven changes in mosquito vector populations, and the mandate for sustainable control strategies 
    da Silva-Nunes, M.; Moreno, M.; Conn, J.E.; Gamboa Vilela, Dionicia Baziliza; Abeles, S.; Vinetz, Joseph Michael; Ferreira, M.U. (Elsevier, 2012)
    Across the Americas and the Caribbean, nearly 561,000 slide-confirmed malaria infections were reported officially in 2008. The nine Amazonian countries accounted for 89% of these infections; Brazil and Peru alone contributed ...
  • The Andean Latin-American burden of diabetes attributable to high body mass index: a comparative risk assessment 
    Carrillo Larco, Rodrigo Martín; Pearson-Stuttard, Jonathan; Bernabé Ortiz, Antonio; Gregg, Edward W. (Elsevier, 2020)
    BACKGROUND: Body mass index (BMI) has increased in Latin-America, but the implications for the diabetes burden have not been quantified. We estimated the proportion and absolute number of diabetes cases attributable to ...
  • Cash transfer and microfinance interventions for tuberculosis control: Review of the impact evidence and policy implications 
    Boccia, D.; Hargreaves, J.; Lönnroth, K.; Jaramillo, E.; Weiss, J.; Uplekar, M.; Porter, J.D.H.; Evans, Carlton Anthony William (International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2011)
    Objective: To quantify the impact of cash transfer and microfinance interventions on a selected list of tuberculosis (TB) risk factors and assess their potential role in supporting TB control. DATA SOURCE: Published and ...
  • A critical analysis of Peru's HIV grant proposals to the Global Fund 
    Caceres Palacios, Carlos Fernando; Amaya, Ana B.; Sandoval Figueroa, Clara Zoraida; Valverde, Rocío (Taylor and Francis, 2013)
    Peru has applied to six of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) rounds for funding, achieving success on four occasions. The process of proposal development has, however, been criticised, ...
  • The current state of play of research on the social, political and legal dimensions of HIV 
    Paiva, V.; Ferguson, L.; Aggleton, P.; Mane, P.; Kelly-Hanku, A.; Giang, L.M.; Barbosa, R.M.; Caceres Palacios, Carlos Fernando; Parker, R. (Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, 2015)
    This paper offers a critical overview of social science research presented at the 2014 International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia. In an era of major biomedical advance, the political nature of HIV remains of ...
  • Data do count! Collection and use of maternal mortality data in Peru, 1990-2005, and improvements since 2005 
    Iguiñiz Romero, Ruth Anunciación; Palomino, N. (Taylor and Francis, 2012)
    This paper reports on a qualitative, exploratory study in 2005, based on interviews with 15 key decision-makers from the Peruvian Ministry of Health responsible for maternal mortality prevention and officials responsible ...
  • The evolution of global health teaching in undergraduate medical curricula 
    Rowson, M.; Smith, A.; Hughes, R.; Johnson, O.; Maini, A.; Martin, S.; Martineau, F.; Miranda, J. Jaime; Pollit, V.; Wake, R.; Willott, C.; Yudkin, J.S. (BioMed Central, 2012)
    Background: Since the early 1990s there has been a burgeoning interest in global health teaching in undergraduate medical curricula. In this article we trace the evolution of this teaching and present recommendations for ...
  • Gender income gap among physicians and nurses in Peru: a nationwide assessment 
    Sal y Rosas, Victor G.; Moscoso-Porras, Miguel; Ormeño, Ruben; Artica, Fernando; Bayes, Cristian L.; Miranda, J. Jaime (Elsevier, 2019)
    The difference in salary among male and female health professionals has received important attention in the past few years. In the USA, an unadjusted estimation showed that male physicians earn on average 25% more than ...
  • Grand challenges in global mental health 
    Correction Collins, P.Y.; Patel, V.; Joestl, S.S.; March, D.; Insel, T.R.; Daar, A.S.; Bordin, I.A.; Costello, E.J.; Durkin, M.; Fairburn, C.; Glass, R.I.; Hall, W.; Huang, Y.; Hyman, S.E.; Jamison, K.; Kaaya, S.; Kapur, S.; Kleinman, A.; Ogunniyi, A.; Otero-Ojeda, A.; Poo, M.-M.; Ravindranath, V.; Sahakian, B.J.; Saxena, S.; Singer, P.A.; Stein, D.J.; Anderson, W.; Dhansay, M.A.; Ewart, W.; Phillips, A.; Shurin, S.; Walport, M.; Scientific Advisory Board and the Executive Committee of the Grand Challenges on Global Mental Health (Springer Nature, 2011)
    A consortium of researchers, advocates and clinicians announces here research priorities for improving the lives of people with mental illness around the world, and calls for urgent action and investment. Schizophrenia, ...
  • The history of 20th century malaria control in Peru 
    Griffing, Sean M.; Gamboa Vilela, Dionicia Baziliza; Udhayakumar, Venkatachalam (BioMed Central, 2013)
    Malaria has been part of Peruvian life since at least the 1500s. While Peru gave the world quinine, one of the first treatments for malaria, its history is pockmarked with endemic malaria and occasional epidemics. In this ...
  • Influence of health rights discourses and community organizing on equitable access to health: the case of HIV, tuberculosis and cancer in Peru 
    Sandoval Figueroa, Clara Zoraida; Caceres Palacios, Carlos Fernando (BioMed Central, 2013)
    Background: The right to health is recognized as a fundamental human right. Social participation is implied in the fulfillment of health rights since Alma Ata posited its relevance for successful health programs, although ...
  • Job Preferences of Nurses and Midwives for Taking Up a Rural Job in Peru: A Discrete Choice Experiment 
    Huicho Oriundo, Luis; Miranda, J. Jaime; Diez-Canseco Montero, Francisco; Lema, C.; Lescano Guevara, Andres Guillermo; Lagarde, M.; Blaauw, D. (Public Library of Science, 2012)
    Background: Robust evidence on interventions to improve the shortage of health workers in rural areas is needed. We assessed stated factors that would attract short-term contract nurses and midwives to work in a rural area ...
  • Latin America and the Caribbean Code Against Cancer: Developing Evidence-Based Recommendations to Reduce the Risk of Cancer in Latin America and the Caribbean 
    Cazap, Eduardo; de Almeida, Liz Maria; Arrossi, Silvina; Garcia Funegra, Patricia Jannet; Garmendia, Maria Luisa; Gil, Enrique; Hassel, Trevor; Mayorga, Ruben; Mohar, Alejandro; Murillo, Raul; Owen, Gabriel O.; Paonessa, Diego; Santamaria, Julio; Tortolero-Luna, Guillermo; Zoss, Walter; Herrero, Rolando; Luciani, Silvana; Schuz, Joachim; Espina, Carolina (American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2019)
    Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has a population of more than 650 million inhabitants (8.5% of the world population), with a cancer incidence of more than 1.4 million new patients and more than 670,000 deaths in 2018. ...
  • Lessons learnt during the implementation of WISN for comprehensive primary health care in India, South Africa and Peru 
    Mabunda, S.A.; Gupta, M.; Chitha, W.W.; Mtshali, N.G.; Ugarte, Claudia; Echegaray, C.; Cuzco, M.; Loayza, J.; Peralta, F.; Escobedo, S.; Bustos, V.; Mnyaka, O.R.; Swaartbooi, B.; Williams, N.; Joshi, R. (MDPI, 2021)
    Introduction: The World Health Organization introduced the workload indicators of staffing needs (WISN) in 1998 to improve country-level health workforce planning. This study presents the primary care health workforce ...
  • 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 ...
  • Point-of-care tests to strengthen health systems and save newborn lives: The case of syphilis 
    Mabey, D.C.; Sollis, K.A.; Kelly, H.A.; Benzaken, A.S.; Bitarakwate, E.; Changalucha, J.; Chen, X.-S.; Yin, Y.-P.; Garcia Funegra, Patricia Jannet; Strasser, S.; Chintu, N.; Pang, T.; Terris-Prestholt, F.; Sweeney, S.; Peeling, R.W. (Public Library of Science, 2012)
    Poor rural populations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) do not have access to diagnostic laboratories. Until recently, this has meant that they could not be screened for asymptomatic infections such as HIV or ...
  • PrEP implementation: Moving from trials to policy and practice 
    Caceres Palacios, Carlos Fernando; O'Reilly, K.R.; Mayer, K.H.; Baggaley, R. (Wiley, 2015)
    Introduction: It is increasingly clear that the HIV response will not be sustainable if the number of infections is not significantly reduced. Discussion: For two decades, research has been ongoing to identify new behavioural ...
  • Process evaluation of complex interventions in chronic and neglected tropical diseases in low- and middle-income countries—a scoping review protocol 
    Lazo Porras, María de los Ángeles; Liu, H.; Miranda, J. Jaime; Moore, G.; Burri, M.; Chappuis, F.; Perel, P.; Beran, D. (BioMed Central, 2021)
    Background: The use of process evaluations is a growing area of interest in research groups working on complex interventions. This methodology tries to understand how the intervention was implemented to inform policy and ...

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