Objectives: This article analyzes the content and outcome of ongoing health reforms in Latin America: Universal Health Coverage with Health Insurance, and the Universal and Public Health Systems. It aims to compare and contrast the conceptual framework and practice of each and verify their concrete resul...
Objective: To estabilish a regional list for nursing research priorities in health systems and services in the Region of the Americas based on the concepts of Universal Access to Health and Universal Health Coverage. Method: five-stage consensus process: systematic review of literature; appraisal of resu...
Longman-Mills, Samantha;
Williams, Yolanda Maria González;
Rodriguez, Marlon Osman Melendez;
Baquero, Monica Rosaura García;
Rojas, Juan Daniel Gómez;
Amaya, Cristina Juárez de;
Diaz, Eduardo Alfredo Martínez;
Corea, Sobeya Jose Peñalba;
Baez, Enrique Miguel Pizzanelli;
Tinoco, Lucia Isabel Solórzano.
This study investigated the relationship between childhood maltreatment and adulthood drug abuse among university students from seven universities in five countries in Latin America and one country in the Caribbean. This multi-country study utilised a cross-sectional design to collect data on drug abuse,...
Most Organization of American States member states do not have a cadre of professionals with scientific knowledge and research experience on drugs and related problems. Therefore, the Organization of American States started a partnership, first with the University of Alberta/Canada and then with the Cent...
OBJECTIVE: to describe the experience of Latin American working women regarding immigration, taking into account the expectations and conditions in which this process takes place. METHOD: ethnographic qualitative study. Data collection was performed by means of semi-structured interviews with 24 Latin Am...
Objetivo: analizar el estado de la investigación en salud en Colombia, Ecuador y en Latinoamérica; sus implicaciones, la importancia de esta para tratar de impactar en políticas y estrategias de salud que mejoren el nivel de vida de las poblaciones y los asentamientos urbanos. Método: se realizó una...
This paper presents the Executive Secretariat of Interamerican Drug Abuse Control Commission (ES/CICAD)'s successful experience introducing drug related content into nursing curricula, fostering the implementation of outreach activities at the community level, and promoting research studies on drug issue...
El objetivo de este estudio fue comprender los patrones de policonsumo simultáneo de sustancias psicoactivas y sus implicaciones de género, legales y sociales, en estudiantes de primer y segundo año de las facultades de ciencias de la salud/ciencias médicas, en siete universidades de cinco países la...
Objetivo: caracterizar la producción latinoamericana de literatura científica sobre fisioterapia / kinesiología entre los años 2000 y 2007. Método: se realizó un estudio descriptivo retrospectivo a 1700 artículos en el área de fisioterapia / kinesiología publicados en las bases de datos de Sciel...
