This scoping review summarized recent scientific output on the use of mobile digital technologies in primary health care (PHC) within the context of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS). The review was based on the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology and followed the PRISMA-ScR guidelines. Studies published between 2020 and 2025 and indexed in the PubMed, SciELO, LILACS, and Virtual Health Library databases were included.

Objective

To determine the prevalence of hypertension control and its associated risk factors among adult patients using the HEARTS in the Americas treatment protocol. 

Methods

A cross-sectional, interviewer-administered survey was conducted among adult hypertensive patients in North-Central Trinidad over a four-month period. Anthropometric and blood pressure measurements, and factors associated with hypertension control – alcohol use, smoking status, physical activity, nutrition, and treatment adherence – were assessed. 

Objective

To summarize the knowledge available in Latin America about clinical coordination (CC) between levels of care, the knowledge of primary care (PC) providers about cancer diagnosis, associated factors, and interventions for the improvement thereof. 

Methods

A scoping review was conducted in the MEDLINE, LILACS, and SciELO databases. After reviewing titles, abstracts, and full texts, data on study characteristics and main results were extracted and synthesized in accordance with the conceptual framework of CC. 

Background

HEARTS is the regional strategy led by the Pan American Health Organization to strengthen hypertension and diabetes control in primary health care. This report summarizes formative and process evidence from the ANDES trial in Puno, Peru, and its alignment with HEARTS implementation. 

Honduras has historically faced significant limitations to scientific development, with research spending below 0.1% of the gross domestic product and a university system focused almost exclusively on teaching. However, between 2007 and 2012, the Teasdale-Corti project (a joint undertaking of Canada and Honduras) marked a turning point by establishing the first academic master’s degree in infectious and zoonotic diseases, a biomedical research laboratory, an ethics committee, and biosafety training programs.

Objectives

Physical activity, fitness and nutrition influence health trajectories from childhood to adulthood and are linked to the risk of chronic diseases. Despite the urgency of prevention, there is a lack of longitudinal data about these health indicators among children in Puerto Rico. This 3-year study (2013–2016) followed 46 children from ages 7 to 9 years to assess their physical activity, fitness, nutrition and self-efficacy over time, and to explore the interrelationships among these indicators. 

Objetivo

Los impuestos selectivos al consumo pueden utilizarse para reducir el consumo de bebidas azucaradas, un importante factor de riesgo prevenible de las enfermedades no transmisibles. El objetivo de este estudio es comparar nuevos indicadores estandarizados del nivel de impuestos aplicados a las bebidas azucaradas como porcentaje del precio en las distintas categorías de bebidas en América Latina y el Caribe. 

Objective

To describe HEARTS Initiative implementation in Mendoza, Argentina, focusing on governance, adaptations, and lessons from scaling a standardized hypertension care model across the provincial public health system. 

Objective

To analyze the factors associated with access to cardiometabolic disease screening in older adults in the Peruvian Amazon. 

Method

A secondary analysis study using data from 310 older adults in the AMAZON FRAIL study. Sociodemographic, social, functional, and clinical variables were evaluated using bivariate analysis and Poisson regression. 

Objective

To evaluate the implementation of care pathways for systemic arterial hypertension (SAH) and type 2 diabetes (T2DM) at the primary health care level in two regions of Northeastern Brazil.