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The impact of COVID19 on Mental Health in the Hispanic Caribbean Region 2020
(International Psychogeriatric, 2020)
The recent global severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic will leave its shadow over mental health in our society, especially among the most vulnerable such as elderly populations and those ...
Cuba’s cardiovascular risk factors: international comparison of levels and education gradients
(PLOS ONE, 2021-03)
Cuba’s life expectancy at 79 is third highest in Latin America. Many attribute this to social investments in health and education, but comparative research is sparse, thus we compare Cuba with neighboring Dominican Republic, ...
Accesibilidad alimentaria en Centroamérica y República Dominicana
(Nutr Clín Diet Hosp, 2021-04-21)
La accesibilidad a los alimentos está vincu lada con la inseguridad alimentaria. Asimismo, la pobreza es
el principal determinante subyacente de la inseguridad ali mentaria del hogar, e incrementa el consumo de productos ...
Seroprevalence of specific antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 from hotspot communities in the Dominican Republic.
(The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2020)
Seroprevalence surveys are of utmost importance to assess the proportion of a population that has developed
antibodies against a newly introduced virus and could therefore potentially exhibit immunologic protection
against ...
Relationship among dental fluorosis, intellectual, quotient and academic performance
(Research Report Fluoride, 2022)
The objective of this study was to determine the association of dental
fluorosis with alterations in cognitive assessment (IQ), average academic performance
scores, and age-gender relationships in students from a population ...
SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence, cumulative infections, and immunity to symptomatic infection – A multistage national household survey and modelling study, Dominican Republic, June–October 2021
(Elsevier Ltd., 2022-11-08)
Background Population-level SARS-CoV-2 immunological protection is poorly understood but can guide vaccination and non-pharmaceutical intervention priorities. Our objective was to characterise cumulative infections and ...
Decline in empathy levels and sex differences in medical students from the Caribbean
(Semantic Scholar., 2021)
Empathy is an important trait in the training of medical students, as it has been shown that it improves the doctor-patient relationship. To evaluate the decline of empathy levels and possible sex differences in undergraduate ...
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 ...
Comparative analysis of bricks manufactured in the New World (1494–1544)
(CRC Press, 2021)
This paper makes a comparative analysis of the first bricks manufactured in the New World during the first 50 years of conquest and colonization (1494–1544). Samples of bricks and tiles were taken from the sites of the ...