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.
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.
To identify factors affecting compliance with follow-up during treatment in confirmed malaria patients at two health centers in Haiti.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The mission of the Pan American Journal of Public Health is to serve as an important vehicle for disseminating scientific public health information relevant to the Region of the Americas. The journal aims to strengthen national and local health systems and to bridge the gap between health care and policy-makers, ultimately improving the health of the peoples of the Americas.
For most of the “world health days”, the reader will find below a selection of published manuscripts with links to the full-text papers.
The mission of the Pan American Journal of Public Health is to serve as an important vehicle for disseminating scientific public health information relevant to the Region of the Americas. The journal aims to strengthen national and local health systems and to bridge the gap between health care and policy-makers, ultimately improving the health of the peoples of the Americas.
To determine the prevalence of maternal death, stillbirth and low birthweight in women with (pre-)eclampsia and complicated pregnancies or deliveries in Centre de Références des Urgences Obstétricales, an obstetric emergency hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and to identify the main risk factors for these adverse pregnancy outcomes.
