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Dust from the Sahara to the American Continent: health impacts
(Allergol Immunopathol (Madr)., 2021)
The Saharan Air Layer is a mass of hot, dry air laden with dust that forms over the Sahara and
moves towards the Atlantic Ocean. This air mass contains soil dust particles emitted by the
action of winds on the African ...
Identifying users’ requirements for emergency mapping team operations in small island developing states: Caribbean Perspective
(International Journal o f Geo-Information, 2021)
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) increasingly face natural hazards that overwhelm
their capacity to generate and share spatial-information to reduce human–economic losses. Under
such circumstances, the emergency ...
Empathic diagnosis among medical students in the Dominican Republic: declination and gender
(Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, 2021)
Introduction: Empathic decline is characterized by a decrease in the levels of empathy. Objective: To diagnose empathic behavior in students of the Pedro Henríquez Ureña National University School of Medicine, Santo Domingo, ...
Food accessibility in Central America and the Dominican Republic
(nutrición clínica y Dietética Hospitalaria, 2021)
Food accessibility is linked to food insecurity. Likewise, poverty is the main underlying determinant of household food insecurity and increases the consumption of products of little nutritional value, which has consequences ...
The impact of SARS-CoV-2 in dementia across Latin America: A call for an urgent regional plan and coordinated response
(Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, 2020)
The SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic will disproportionately impact countries with weak economies and vulnerable populations including people with dementia. Latin American and Caribbean countries (LACs) are burdened with unstable ...
Prediction of dementia risk in low-income and middleincome countries (the 10/66 Study): an independent external validation of existing models
(Elsevier Ltd., 2020-04)
To date, dementia prediction models have been exclusively developed and tested in high-income countries (HICs). However, most people with dementia live in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), where dementia risk ...
The prevalence and correlates of frailty in urban and rural populations in Latin America, China, and India: A 10/66 population-based survey
(Elsevier Ltd., 2018)
There have been few cross-national studies of the prevalence of the frailty phenotype conducted among low or middle income countries. We aimed to study the variation in prevalence and correlates of frailty in rural and ...
Loneliness among older adults in Latin America, China, and India: prevalence, correlates and association with mortality
(International Journal of Public Health, 2021-03)
This study was designed to explore prevalence and correlates of selfreported
loneliness and to investigate whether loneliness predicts mortality among
older adults (aged 65 or above) in Latin America, China and India.
The ...
Dementia attributable healthcare utilizations in the Caribbean versus United States
(Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2023-11-07)
Despite the high burden of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias among the Hispanic population worldwide, little is known about how dementia affects healthcare utilizations among this population outside of the US, in ...
Barrio de Santa Bárbara. Primer asentamiento informal del nuevo mundo
(Intus - Legere Historia, 2020-05)
En la Española se establecieron los primeros asentamientos europeos en el Nuevo Mundo entre ellos la ciudad de Santo Domingo en 1498, convirtiéndose en la más importante de las Indias y con la mayor población residente de ...