Latin America : old and new challenges
International Journal of Epidemiology Volume 37, Number 4 August 2008
Shah Ebrahim -
Website: http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/current.dtl
“……This issue is devoted to Latin America, and is intended to provide a link with the
World Congress of Epidemiology, Porto Alegre, Brazil in September 2008.
We expect this congress to exceed attendance at previous International Epidemiology Association world meetings by about 5-fold. A large epidemiology following in
Our guest editors, Cesar Victora and Laura Rodrigues, have done an excellent job of commissioning commentaries and selecting excellent scientific papers from a flood of manuscripts in response to the call for papers. Selection of papers is always difficult and I hope readers enjoy the choices made and join me in thanking our guest editors for all the hard work involved.
Reviewing the scientific papers published in this themed issue demonstrates major interests in topics that would not be considered ‘mainstream’ epidemiology: household expenditure on health care,1 evaluation of household food security scale,2 morbidity and mortality in relation to health care indicators,3 health services for tuberculosis,4 health insurance and cervical cancer screening,5 impact of sanitation intervention6 and evaluation of access to PAP smears in Peru,7 for example. A continued sense of relevance, of socially pioneering work that has the ability to change the health of populations and the lives of individuals is clearly seen. Long may it continue!...”
Editorial
Cesar G Victora and Laura C Rodrigues
Latin American epidemiology
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 692-693; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn140
“….Most of
Content:
Howard Waitzkin, Celia Iriart, Holly Shipp Buchanan, Francisco Mercado, Jonathan Tregear, and Jonathan Eldredge
The Latin American Social Medicine Database: a resource for epidemiology
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 724-728; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn148
“….Latin American social medicine (LASM) has become a widely respected and influential field of research, teaching and clinical practice, yet its accomplishments remain little known in the English-speaking and -reading world.1–3 Important publications have not been translated from Spanish and Portuguese into English, and the majority of LASM journals are not indexed in MEDLINE or similar bibliographic databases….”
The LASM database provides Spanish, Portuguese and English structured abstracts summarizing classic and contemporary works in LASM. A website offers access to the abstracts in a searchable format. The LASM literature available through these resources provides important information about the social, economic and cultural determinants of health, and the organized responses to confront the problems.
Website: http://hsc.unm.edu/lasm/
Francisco I Bastos, Carlos Cáceres, Jane Galvão, Maria Amélia Veras, and Euclides Ayres Castilho
AIDS in
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 729-737; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn127
Célia Landmann Szwarcwald
Strategies for improving the monitoring of vital events in
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 738-744; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn130
Jaime Breilh
Latin American critical (‘Social’) epidemiology: new settings for an old dream
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 745-750; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn135
Roberto Briceño-León, Andrés Villaveces, and Alberto Concha-Eastman
Understanding the uneven distribution of the incidence of homicide in
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 751-757; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn153
Original Articles
Out-of-pocket health expenditure in a population covered by the Family Health Program in
IJE Advance Access published on April 13, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 758-765; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn063
Gender of respondent does not affect the psychometric properties of the Brazilian Household Food Security Scale
IJE Advance Access published on May 22, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 766-774; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn084
Morbidity and mortality in Brazilian municipalities: a multilevel study of the association between socioeconomic and healthcare indicators
IJE Advance Access published on May 24, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 775-783; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn088
Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa, Clareci da Silva Cardoso, and Fernando Augusto Proietti
Commentary: Governance: does it matter in shaping health in urban settings? How in-depth can we go?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 784-785; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn138
Demographic, health services and socio-economic factors associated with pulmonary tuberculosis mortality in Los Altos Region of Chiapas, Mexico
IJE Advance Access published on May 29, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 786-795; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn089
Vulnerability to heat-related mortality in Latin America: a case-crossover study in São Paulo, Brazil, Santiago, Chile and Mexico City, Mexico
IJE Advance Access published on May 29, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 796-804; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn094
A hierarchical model for studying risk factors for childhood diarrhoea: a case–control study in a middle-income country
IJE Advance Access published on May 31, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 805-815; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn093
Multi-country analysis of the effects of diarrhoea on childhood stunting
IJE Advance Access published on June 20, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 816-830; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn099
Impact of a city-wide sanitation intervention in a large urban centre on social, environmental and behavioural determinants of childhood diarrhoea: analysis of two cohort studies
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 831-840; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn101
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Smoking increases the risk of relapse after successful tuberculosis treatment |
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Multilevel analysis of hepatitis A infection in children and adolescents: a household survey in the Northeast and Central-west regions of |
Who is getting Pap smears in urban
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 862-869; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn118
Health insurance and cervical cancer screening among older women in Latin American and Caribbean cities
IJE Advance Access published on May 29, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 870-878; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn096
Risk factors across the life course and dementia in a Brazilian population: results from the Sao Paulo Ageing & Health Study (SPAH)
IJE Advance Access published on June 26, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 879-890; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn125
Evaluation of cause-of-death statistics for
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 891-901; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn121
Association of perinatal factors and obesity in 6- to 8-year-old Chilean children
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 902-910; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn133
Reprints and Reflections
Carlos Chagas
A new disease entity in man: a report on etiologic and clinical observations
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 694-695; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn149
Alvaro Moncayo
Commentary: The lucid reasoning of Carlos Chagas
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 695-696; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn128
Moisés Goldbaum and Maurício L Barreto
Commentary: The contribution and example of Carlos Chagas
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 697-698; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn129
Ricardo
Commentary: Chagas disease: 100 years since discovery and lessons for the future
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 698-701; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn134
José da Rocha Carvalheiro and Paulo Gadelha
Commentary: Carlos Chagas—predecessor of Epidemiology in
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 701-703; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn139
Cohort Profiles
Cesar G Victora, Pedro C Hallal, Cora LP Araújo, Ana MB Menezes, Jonathan CK Wells, and Fernando C Barros
Cohort Profile: The 1993
IJE Advance Access published on September 10, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 704-709; doi:10.1093/ije/dym177
Ricardo Jose Reis, Poliana de Freitas La Rocca, Lucca Basile, Albert Navarro, and Miguel Martín
Cohort Profile: The Hospital das Clínicas Cohort Study,
IJE Advance Access published on January 31, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 710-715; doi:10.1093/ije/dym272
Aryeh D Stein, Paul Melgar, John Hoddinott, and Reynaldo Martorell
Cohort Profile: The Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP) Nutrition Trial Cohort Study
IJE Advance Access published on February 19, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 716-720; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn028
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