Browsing by Subject "Health Surveys"

Facts and figures on health in the Americas: a review of major trends

Unknown author (1978)

The multinational Andean genetic and health program: II. Disease and disability among the Aymara

Díaz, B; Gallegos, D; Murillo, Federico; Covarrubias, E; Covarrubias, T; Rona, R; Weidman, W; Rothhammer, F; Schull, W.J (1978)

A household survey of health and illness in rural Bolivia

Frerichs, R.R; Becht, James N; Foxman, B (1980)

The Aymara of Western Bolivia: health and disease

Murillo, Federico; Barton, Sara A; Palomino, Hernan; Lenart, Vivian; Schull, William J (1980)

"Barefoot" researchers: the potential role of rural students as mental health promoters performing prevalence surveys

León, C. A (1981)

An analysis of health progress in Chile

Medina Lois, Ernesto; Kaempffer, A.M (1983)

Welfare indicators and health: the selection and use of socioeconomic indicators for monitoring and evaluation

Musgrove, Philip (1984)

Risk factors for invasive carcinoma of the uterine cervix in Latin America

Herrero, Rolando; Brinton, Louise A; Reeves, William C; Brenes, María M; Tenorio, Francisco; Britton, Rosa C. de; Gaitán, Eduardo; Montalván, Patricia; García, Mariana; Rawls, William E (1990)

Risk factor for invasive carcinoma of the uterine cervix in Latin America

Gongenital heart disease diagnosed in Guadeloupe

Cerboni, P; Robillard, P. Y; Hulsey, T. C; Sibille, G; Ngyuen, J (1993)

An epidemiologic survey of congenital heart disease was performed in Guadeloupe, French West Indies, during the 3-year period 1988-1990. This survey, the first on congenital heart disease from the Caribbean, found an overall ...

The Dominican Republic and the Marlboro Brand: A cigarette smoking survey and status report

Vincent, Albert L; Bradham, Douglas D; Ureña Rojas, César Augosto; Fisher, Sylvia K (1993)

A survey of cigarette smoking in Santo Domingo was conducted among residents of 499 households in two neighborhoods. Residentes over 14 years old were classified as current smokers (34.6 percent), former smokers (11.3 ...

Some factors influencing delay in leprosy diagnosis

De Rojas, Vivianne; Hernández, Olenia; Gil, Reinaldo (1994)

To study delay in leprosy diagnosis in Cuba, home interviews were conducted with all patients whose cases were diagnosed during 1989-1990 in Guantánamo and Havana, where leprosy prevalences are respectively high and moderate. ...

Assistência obstétrica e complicações graves da gestação na América Latina e Caribe: análise das informações obtidas a partir de inquéritos demográficos de saúde

Souza, João Paulo; Parpinelli, Mary Angela; Amaral, Eliana; Cecatti, Jose Guilherme (2007)

Assessment of the quality of immunization data produced by the national individual registration system in Uruguay, 2006

Ronveaux, Olivier; Arrieta, Fernando; Curto, Sergio; Laurani, Hilda; Danovaro-Holliday, M. Carolina (2009)

Validez y fiabilidad de la versión argentina del PCAT-AE para evaluar la atención primaria de salud

Berra, Silvina; Hauser, Lisiane; Audisio, Yanina; Mántaras, José; Nicora, Valeria; Oliveira, Mônica Maria Celestina de; Starfield, Barbara; Harzheim, Erno (2013)

Recomendações para atividade física e saúde: consensos, controvérsias e ambiguidades

Lima, Dartel Ferrari de; Levy, Renata Bertazzi; Luiz, Olinda do Carmo (2014)

Socioeconomic and lifestyle factors associated with chronic conditions among older adults in Ecuador

Guevara, Pilar Egüez; Andrade, Flávia Cristina Drumond (2015-09)

Objective. To explore socioeconomic and lifestyle factors associated with the prevalence of self-reported chronic conditions among older adults in Ecuador. Methods. The sample was drawn from the nationally representative ...

Profile of capacity and response to noncommunicable diseases and their risk factors in the Region of the Americas. Country capacity survey results, 2015

Pan American Health Organization (Washington, D.C, PAHO, 2017-06)

[Preface]. The rise in noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) is increasingly undermining sustainable development, especially in low- and middle-income countries which suffer the highest burden of disease. Over the past several ...