A5055372771- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Public Health and Social Inequalities
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Global Health and Surgery
- Health and Medical Education
- Influenza Virus Research Studies
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Social Sciences and Policies
- Global Health Care Issues
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Health and Medical Research Impacts
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Health and Lifestyle Studies
- Agricultural and Food Production Studies
Universidad Anáhuac
2014-2024
Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública
2009-2023
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
2022
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
2021
PricewaterhouseCoopers (Canada)
2017
Health Systems Research Institute
2012
Universidad de Guadalajara
2008
Departamento de Salud
2008
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur
2008
Weatherford College
2008
The importance of health research utilisation in policy-making, and understanding the mechanisms involved, is increasingly recognised. Recent reports calling for more resources to improve developing countries, global pressures accountability, draw greater attention research-informed policy-making. Key issues have been described at least twenty years, but growing focus on systems creates additional dimensions.The policy-making should contribute policies that may eventually lead desired...
As demand grows for health policies based on evidence, questions exist as to the capacity of developing countries produce policy and systems research (HPSR) required meet this challenge. A postal/web survey 176 HPSR producer institutions in assessed institutional structure, capacity, critical mass, knowledge production processes stakeholder engagement. Data were projected an estimated population 649 institutions. producers are mostly small public institutions/units with average 3 projects, 8...
Striving to foster collaboration among countries suffering from maternal and child health (MCH) inequities, the MASCOT project mapped analyzed use of research in strategies tackling them 11 low- middle-income countries. This article aims present way which influenced MCH policies programs six these – three Africa Latin America. Qualitative using a thematic synthesis narrative process was used identify describe who is producing what kind research, how funded, inequities are approached by...
Introduction Influenza morbidity and mortality are significant in the countries of South America, yet influenza vaccination is as low 56.7% among pregnant women, reaching 76.7% adults with chronic diseases. This article measures relative values for hesitancy indicators confidence, complacency convenience by risk-groups urban areas five America contrasting rates, analyzing their association sociodemographic variables self-reported immunization status. Methods An exit survey was applied to 640...
Background In Mexico, some of the most prevalent non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among adults are diabetes, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease (CKD). Mexico could be going through a syndemic dengue NCDs. This study aims to describe analyze association between prevalence NCDs hospitalization, presence hemorrhagic disorders, death in all officially confirmed cases during 2024. Methodology/Principal Findings cross-sectional is carried out secondary analysis reported The likelihood were...
Abstract Introduction Research is an essential tool in facing the challenges of scaling up interventions and improving access to services. As many other countries, translation research evidence into drug policy action Tanzania often constrained by poor communication between researchers decision-makers, individual perceptions or attitudes towards hesitation some decision-makers approve change when they anticipate possible undesirable repercussions should as proposed. Internationally,...
BACKGROUND: Health policy and systems research (HPSR) is an international public good with potential to orient investments performance at national level. Identifying trends priorities level therefore important. This paper offers a conceptual framework defines the HPSR portfolio as set of projects under implementation. The influenced by factors external system well internal it. These last include capacity institutions, momentum programs, funding opportunities influence stakeholder opinion....
This article provides a critique of decentralization health care systems in underdeveloped countries, taking the Mexican case as an example. The formulation, implementation and interruption integrative 1980s is analysed context interests served Mexico by administrative centralization institutional fragmentation. short-term results upon state-level politics, finance, planning service distribution equity are their relationship to bureaucratic political interests. Initially most region country...
Chronic diseases (CD) are a public health emergency in Mexico. Despite concern regarding the financial burden of CDs country, economic studies have focused only on diabetes, hypertension, and cancer. Furthermore, these estimated burdens were based hypothetical epidemiology models or ideal healthcare scenarios. The present study estimates annual expenditure per patient for nine most prevalent CDs, excluding cancer, each two largest providers country: Ministry Health (MoH) Mexican Institute...
There has been a dramatic increase in the body of evidence demonstrating benefits that come from health research. In 2014, funding bodies for higher education UK conducted an assessment research using approach termed Research Excellence Framework (REF). As one element REF, universities and medical schools submitted 1,621 case studies claiming to show impact their other life sciences over last 20 years. The recently published results many were judged positively as providing examples wide...
Mexico has undertaken important efforts to decrease maternal mortality. Health authorities have introduced intercultural innovations address barriersfaced by indigenous women accessing professional and delivery services. This study examines, from the perspective of women, barriers andfacilitators labor care services in a context allopathic innovations. is an exploratory using qualitative approach discourse analysis with grounded theory techniques. Twenty-five semi-structured interviews were...
Influenza vaccination coverage in countries of Latin America is low among priority risk groups, ranging from 5 to 75% older people. This paper aims describe and analyze the determinants influenza hesitancy through lens 3C model confidence, complacency convenience middle-class, urban group populations Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, South with contrasting coverage. Focus groups were conducted four groups: pregnant women, mothers children aged <6 years, adults factors, ≥60 years...
The World Health Report 2013 provides a major boost to the health research community and, in particular, those who believe that will make its greatest impact on improving when it is organised through systems approach. 2013, Research for Universal Coverage, starts with three key messages. Firstly, universal coverage, full access high-quality services, needs evidence if be achieved; second, all nations should conduct and use research; finally, report states are needed develop national agendas,...
Influenza vaccination has been available under Peru's national immunization program since 2008, but coverage decreased lately. Surveys and focus groups were conducted among four risk (pregnant women, mothers of children aged <6 years, adults with factors, ≥65 years) to identify factors affecting influenza vaccine hesitancy in Peru. The 3Cs model (Confidence, Complacency, Convenience) was used as a conceptual framework for the study.Most pregnant women young (70.0%), less than half (46.3%)...
International collaboration for health system development has been identified as a critical input to meet pressing global needs. North-South the potential benefit both parties, while South-South offers promise strengthen capacity rapidly and efficiently across developing countries. There is an emerging trend analyze fruits of such collaboration. This paper builds on this by applying innovative concept-based bibliometric method identify international scope within field policy systems...
Objetivo. Identificar, jerarquizar y relacionar barreras facilitadores en la implantación de las Guías Práctica Clínica (GPC). Material métodos. Estudio cualitativo que compara GPC a través los dominios del marco consolidado para investigación implementación hospitales tres principales instituciones públicas una entidad. Se entrevistaron funcionarios estatales personal hospitalario. Resultados. Las son ausencia lineamientos, capacitación, recursos e incentivos. Los se relacionan con...