The mission of the Pan American Journal of Public Health is to serve as an important vehicle for disseminating scientific public health information relevant to the Region of the Americas. The journal aims to strengthen national and local health systems and to bridge the gap between health care and policy-makers, ultimately improving the health of the peoples of the Americas.
The mission of the Pan American Journal of Public Health is to serve as an important vehicle for disseminating scientific public health information relevant to the Region of the Americas. The journal aims to strengthen national and local health systems and to bridge the gap between health care and policy-makers, ultimately improving the health of the peoples of the Americas.
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To assess the prevalence and factors associated with physical abuse against children in Guyana.
To analyze the applicability of the World Health Organization’s WHO Guideline on self-care interventions for health and well-being in selected Latin American and Caribbean countries.
To develop a generalizable extraction, transform, and load (ETL) process and workflow for prospective harmonization of data from active cohort studies being conducted in different geographic locations across the Region of the Americas.
“South–South” partnerships forged between institutions in resource-constrained settings, usually in low- and middle-income countries, provide innovative frameworks for resource, knowledge, and expertise exchanges to address public health challenges in regions sharing similar contexts. Population-based cancer registries (PBCRs) and surveillance systems in low- and middle-income countries are essential for cancer control, yet they are scarce.
Given that vector control represents the primary strategy for preventing these diseases, the objective of this systematic review is to ascertain the efficacy of chemical interventions in reducing their burden.
To estimate cervical cancer screening (CCS) coverage rates and assess the spatial distribution and clustering between departments and municipalities in Bolivia.
Standardized CCS coverage rates were calculated using the direct standardization method. The global Moran’s I test was used to investigate the existence of spatial autocorrelation of CCS coverage, and the Getis-Ord Gi* was used to identify the spatial clustering of municipalities with high (hot spot) or low (cold spot) coverage.
To investigate whether the quality and quantity of genomic DNA harnessed from existing formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) breast cancer biopsy tissue samples in the public health system of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) were sufficient for downstream genetic testing and to investigate the occurrence of the common breast cancer susceptibility gene 1 (BRCA1) mutation, BRCA1-185delAG, in these samples.
