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Expert en Médecine, Optimisation des Parcours de Soins et Révision Médicale
Validation scientifique effectuée le 15/04/2026
Contenu vérifié selon les dernières recommandations médicales
8 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Centro para Investigaciones sobre la Salud Indígena, Wuqu' Kawoq | Maya Health Alliance, Tecpán, Guatemala.
National Clinicians Scholars Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
7 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Centro para Investigaciones sobre la Salud Indígena, Wuqu' Kawoq | Maya Health Alliance, Tecpán, Guatemala.
6 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Servicio de Nefrología, Hipertensión, Diálisis y Trasplante, Departamento de Pediatría, Hospital Roosevelt/FUNDANIER, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
6 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Instituto de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Rafael Landivar, Guatemala, Guatemala.
Departamento de Investigacion, Unidad de Cirugia Cardiovascular, Guatemala, Guatemala.
5 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, Colorado.
Center for Human Development, Retalhuleu, Guatemala.
Department of Pediatrics, Section of Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.
Publications dans "Guatemala" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Publications dans "Guatemala" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Research Center for the Prevention of Chronic Diseases, Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama-INCAP, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Publications dans "Guatemala" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
University of San Carlos of Guatemala University of San Carlos of Guatemala Guatemala CityGuatemala University of San Carlos of Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Publications dans "Guatemala" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Duke Global Health Institute Duke Global Health Institute DurhamNorth Carolina United States of America Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America.
Publications dans "Guatemala" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Center for Human Development, Fundacion para la Salud Integral de los Guatemaltecos, Coatepeque, Guatemala.
Publications dans "Guatemala" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Centro de Estudios en Salud, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala. npadilla@ces.uvg.edu.gt.
Publications dans "Guatemala" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA.
Centro para Investigaciones sobre la Salud Indígena, Wuqu' Kawoq | Maya Health Alliance, Tecpán, Guatemala.
Publications dans "Guatemala" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Wuqu' Kawoq, Maya Health Alliance, Barrio Patacabaj, Tecpán, Chimaltenango, Guatemala anita@wuqukawoq.org.
Publications dans "Guatemala" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Publications dans "Guatemala" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Publications dans "Guatemala" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Publications dans "Guatemala" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
School of Sport, Exercise & Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.
UCSD/Salk Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA), University of California San Diego, USA.
Publications dans "Guatemala" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Publications dans "Guatemala" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Research Center for the Prevention of Chronic Diseases, Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama-INCAP, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Publications dans "Guatemala" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Instituto de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Rafael Landivar, Guatemala, Guatemala.
Publications dans "Guatemala" :
An increase in competition for nurse practitioner preceptors and United States-based clinical practicum sites along with an increase in required direct patient care clinical hours demand innovative me...
Introducing new surgical techniques in a developing country can be challenging. Inguinal hernias in children are a common surgical problem, and open repair is the standard surgical approach. Laparosco...
This retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data from all patients under 18 years who underwent laparoscopic repair at Corpus Christi Hospital in Patzun, Guatemala, from September 5th to Se...
A total of 14 patients were included in the study. A board-certified pediatric surgeon and a Guatemalan physician performed all cases. The mean patient age was 7.6 years; 7 boys and 7 girls. All patie...
Under controlled circumstances with limited but proper equipment and disposables, laparoscopic inguinal hernia repairs can be introduced and performed in a developing country with a risk complication ...
Previous research suggests that the Ages and Stages Questionnaire-3rd ed. (ASQ) fine motor domain (FMD) may not be culturally relevant for developmental screening in a rural Guatemalan community, as t...
The objective of this study is to investigate the prevalence of diabetes in a clinical population of primarily Indigenous women in Guatemala....
In a retrospective chart review of a clinical program serving 13,643 primarily Indigenous women in Guatemala, crude diabetes prevalence was 8.3% (95% Confidence Interval [CI]: 7.8 to 8.7) and age-adju...
Although causal links between tropical deforestation and palm oil are well established, linking this land use change to where the palm oil is actually consumed remains a distinct challenge and researc...
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne illness that infects 390 million people annually. Dengue outbreaks in Guatemala have been occurring more often and at increased rates since the first dengue outbreak i...
Infectious disease exposures in early life are increasingly recognized as a risk factor for poor subsequent growth and neurodevelopment. We aimed to evaluate the association between cumulative illness...
From June 2017 to July 2018, infants 0-3 months of age living in a resource-limited region of rural southwest Guatemala were enrolled and underwent weekly at-home surveillance for caregiver-reported c...
Of 499 enrolled infants, 430 (86.2%) completed all study procedures and were included in the analysis. At 12-15 months of age, 140 (32.6%) infants had stunting (length-for-age Z [LAZ] score < -2 SD) a...
These findings highlight the negative cumulative consequences of frequent febrile and respiratory illness on neurodevelopment during infancy. Future studies should explore pathogen-specific illnesses,...
Guatemalan lay midwives are well-respected community leaders in a country that lacks the institutional capacity to meet healthcare needs related to pregnancy, newborns, and COVID-19. Thus, Guatemalan ...
In a partnership among the Guatemalan Ministry of Health, expert faculty at the University of Utah College of Nursing, and Madre y Niño, a non-profit organization from the US, evidence-based ed...
Participants showed a significant increase in knowledge scores (possible 0-24) from prescores 7.09 (standard deviation (SD)=3.06) to 15.20 (SD=4.61), Student's t-test p<0.001. In addition, a significa...
These essential primary care providers misunderstood many critical issues related to COVID-19, pregnancy, and newborns. Culturally relevant educational activities provided orally in the native languag...
Waste collection services are uncommon in rural areas of low-resource countries, causing waste accumulation and subsequent dumping and burning of garbage. Air pollution from household garbage burning,...
Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services in schools are essential to reduce infectious disease transmission, including that of COVID-19. This study aimed to establish a baseline of WASH services...