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Seizures, cysticercosis and rural-to-urban migration: the PERU MIGRANT study

Gonzales, I.; Miranda, J. Jaime; Rodriguez, S.; Vargas, V.; Cjuno, A.; Smeeth, L.; Gonzalez Zariquiey, Armando Emiliano; Tsang, V.C.W.; Gilman, Robert Hugh; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo (Wiley, 2015)

Objectives: To examine the prevalence of seizures, epilepsy and seropositivity to cysticercosis in rural villagers (cysticercosis-endemic setting), rural-to-urban migrants into a non-endemic urban shanty town and urban ...
Seroprevalencia de Leptospirosis en Puente Piedra, Lima en el año 2006

Platts-Mills, J.A.; LaRochelle, P.; Campos, K.; Vinetz, Joseph Michael; Gotuzzo Herencia, José Eduardo; Ricaldi, J.N. (Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2011)

Leptospirosis is a disease widely prevalent in tropical areas, but may also be present in urban areas. The present study aims to determine the seroprevalence of Leptospira in the district of Puente Piedra, where there have ...
The shift of obesity burden by socioeconomic status between 1998 and 2017 in Latin America and the Caribbean: a cross-sectional series study.

Jiwani, Safia S.; Carrillo Larco, Rodrigo Martín; Hernandez-Vasquez, Akram; Barrientos-Gutierrez, Tonatiuh; Basto-Abreu, Ana; Gutierrez, Laura; Irazola, Vilma; Nieto-Martinez, Ramfis; Nunes, Bruno P.; Parra, Diana C.; Miranda, J. Jaime (Elsevier, 2019)

BACKGROUND: The burden of obesity differs by socioeconomic status. We aimed to characterise the prevalence of obesity among adult men and women in Latin America and the Caribbean by socioeconomic measures and the shifting ...
Socio-spatial heterogeneity in participation in mass dog rabies vaccination campaigns, Arequipa, Peru.

Castillo Neyra, Ricardo; Toledo, Amparo M.; Arevalo Nieto, Claudia Rebeca; MacDonald, Hannelore; De la Puente León, Virginia Micaela; Naquira Velarde, Cesar Gabriel; Paz-Soldan Parlette, Valerie Andrea; Buttenheim, Alison M.; Levy, Michael Z. (Public Library of Science, 2019)

To control and prevent rabies in Latin America, mass dog vaccination campaigns (MDVC) are implemented mainly through fixed-location vaccination points: owners have to bring their dogs to the vaccination points where they ...
Stated Preferences of Doctors for Choosing a Job in Rural Areas of Peru: A Discrete Choice Experiment

Miranda, J. Jaime; Diez-Canseco Montero, Francisco; Lema, C.; Lescano Guevara, Andres Guillermo; Lagarde, M.; Blaauw, D.; Huicho Oriundo, Luis (Public Library of Science, 2012)

Background: Doctors' scarcity in rural areas remains a serious problem in Latin America and Peru. Few studies have explored job preferences of doctors working in underserved areas. We aimed to investigate doctors' stated ...
Transiciones en contexto: hallazgos vinculados a migración rural-urbana y enfermedades no transmisibles en Perú

Miranda, J. Jaime; Wells, Jonathan C. K.; Smeeth, Liam (Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2012)

In order to better understand the emergence of chronic non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries this article seeks to present, in context, different transitional processes which societies and populations ...
Universal definition of loss to follow-up in HIV treatment programs: A statistical analysis of 111 facilities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

Chi, B.H.; Yiannoutsos, C.T.; Westfall, A.O.; Newman, J.E.; Zhou, J.; Cesar, C.; Brinkhof, M.W.G.; Mwango, A.; Balestre, E.; Carriquiry, G.; Sirisanthana, T.; Mukumbi, H.; Martin, J.N.; Grimsrud, A.; Bacon, M.; Thiebaut, R. (Public Library of Science, 2011)

Background: Although patient attrition is recognized as a threat to the long-term success of antiretroviral therapy programs worldwide, there is no universal definition for classifying patients as lost to follow-up (LTFU). ...
Urbanization and Altitude Are Associated with Low Kidney Function in Peru.

Carrillo Larco, Rodrigo Martín; Miranda, J. Jaime; Gilman, Robert Hugh; Narvaez-Guerra, Offdan; Herrera-Enriquez, Karela; Medina-Lezama, Josefina; Smeeth, Liam; Checkley, William; Bernabé Ortiz, Antonio (Mary Ann Liebert, 2019)

Background: Kidney health needs to be studied in low- and middle-income countries with populations living at high altitude and undergoing urbanization. We studied whether greater level of urbanization was associated with ...
Valid group comparisons can be made with the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9): A measurement invariance study across groups by demographic characteristics.

Villarreal-Zegarra, David; Copez-Lonzoy, Anthony; Bernabé Ortiz, Antonio; Melendez-Torres, G. J.; Bazo-Alvarez, Juan Carlos (Public Library of Science, 2019)

Objective: Analyze the measurement invariance and the factor structure of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) in the Peruvian population. Method: Secondary data analysis performed using cross-sectional data from the ...
Which resources help young people to prevent and overcome mental distress in deprived urban areas in Latin America? A protocol for a prospective cohort study

Priebe, S.; Fung, C.; Brusco, L.I.; Carbonetti, F.; Gómez-Restrepo, C.; Uribe, M.; Diez-Canseco Montero, Francisco; Smuk, M.; Holt, N.; Kirkbride, J.B.; Araya, R.; Morgan, C.; Eldridge, S.; Heritage, P.; Bird, V. (BMJ Publishing Group, 2021)

Introduction Improving the mental health of young people is a global public health priority. In Latin America, young people living in deprived urban areas face various risk factors for mental distress. However, most either ...