Access to school-based eye health programs: a qualitative case study, Bogotá, Colombia
Objectives
To identify barriers and enablers to accessing school-based eye health programs in Bogotá, Colombia.
Nutrient profile of food products exempted from the application of front-ofpackage warnings during the first stage of the Healthy Eating Law in Peru: case study
Objective
Identify the nutritional profile of food products exempted from presenting one or more front-of-package nutritional warnings during the first stage of Law 30,021 on the Promotion of Healthy Eating for Children and Adolescents in Peru.
Feasibility of using death certificates for studying place of death in Latin America
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Objective
This paper assesses the availability and quality of death certificate data in Latin America and the feasibility of using these data to study place of death and associated factors.
Adolescent pregnancy, public policies, and targeted programs in Latin America and the Caribbean: a systematic review
Objective
To present and assess evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) on public policies and targeted programs which may have influenced variations in adolescent pregnancy or its proximate determinants, and to identify knowledge gaps that require further research.
Global control of COVID-19: good vaccines may not suffice
The COVID-19 pandemic has unveiled health and socioeconomic inequities around the globe. Effective epidemic control requires the achievement of herd immunity, where susceptible individuals are conferred indirect protection by being surrounded by immunized individuals. The proportion of people that need to be vaccinated to obtain herd immunity is determined through the herd immunity threshold. However, the number of susceptible individuals and the opportunities for contact between infectious and susceptible individuals influence the progress of an epidemic.
Investigations of socioeconomic factors associated with follow-up compliance with malaria treatment in Haiti
Objective
To identify factors affecting compliance with follow-up during treatment in confirmed malaria patients at two health centers in Haiti.
Dr. Luis Gerardo Castellanos (author and reviewer)
Dr. Castellanos tells us how in the 80s, before working as a reviewer with the Pan American Journal of Public Health, the research published by the Journal was of the greatest importance to him as he began his career in medicine and his research on dengue.
Dr. Guillermo Padrón (associate editor)
I have been associated with the Pan American Journal of Public Health since 2001, working as an author, associate editor, and executive editor. In these 20 years of uninterrupted work, I have grown personally and professionally thanks to the Journal and each and every of my colleagues: directors, editors, and technical personnel.
Dr. José Luis Di Fabio (author and reviewer)
In my years as a staff member of the Pan American Health Organization, I participated as an author and reviewer of a number of scientific texts for the Journal.
Dr. Alafia Samuels (researcher and guest editor)
As guest editor of the special issue "Ten years of the Port of Spain Declaration on NCDs", I had the honor of writing four editorials and eleven articles for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), with specialized documentation and analysis on the status of interventions for these conditions in the subregion and in other small island developing states.
