Traditional herbal medicine in Mesoamerica: Toward its evidence base for improving universal health coverage

MS Geck, S Cristians, M Berger-Gonzalez… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The quality of health care in Mesoamerica is influenced by its rich cultural diversity and
characterized by social inequalities. Especially indigenous and rural communities confront …

Evaluating the impact of a linguistically and culturally tailored social media ad campaign on COVID-19 vaccine uptake among indigenous populations in Guatemala: a …

LA Miguel, E Lopez, K Sanders, NA Skinner… - BMJ open, 2022 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To evaluate the impact of culturally and linguistically tailored informational videos
delivered via social media campaigns on COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Indigenous Maya …

Barriers to COVID-19 vaccine acceptance to improve messages for vaccine uptake in indigenous populations in the central highlands of Guatemala: a participatory …

NA Skinner, K Sanders, E Lopez, MSS Mux… - BMJ open, 2023 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction As of July 2022, a little over one-third of Guatemalans were fully vaccinated.
While COVID-19 vaccination rates are not officially reported nationally by racial/ethnic …

Challenges in the provision of kidney care at the largest public nephrology center in Guatemala: a qualitative study with health professionals

D Flood, K Wilcox, AA Ferro, C Mendoza Montano… - BMC nephrology, 2020 - Springer
Background Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is increasing worldwide, and the majority of the
CKD burden is in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, there is wide …

Barriers to cervical cancer screening in Guatemala: a quantitative analysis using data from the Guatemala Demographic and Health Surveys

A Gottschlich, P Ochoa, A Rivera-Andrade… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Objectives Examine the association between commonly reported barriers to health care,
including discordant spoken languages between patients and providers, and reported …

Germline variants in hereditary breast cancer genes are associated with early age at diagnosis and family history in Guatemalan breast cancer

M Ren, A Orozco, K Shao, A Albanez, J Ortiz… - Breast cancer research …, 2021 - Springer
Purpose Mutations in hereditary breast cancer genes play an important role in the risk for
cancer. Methods Cancer susceptibility genes were sequenced in 664 unselected breast …

[图书][B] The Work of Hospitals: Global Medicine in Local Cultures

MK Hoke, SR Stumo, TL Leatherman, A Hannig… - 2022 - books.google.com
In the context of neoliberalism and global austerity measures, health care institutions around
the world confront numerous challenges in attempting to meet the needs of local …

Global dialysis perspective: Guatemala

P Garcia, V Sánchez-Polo - Kidney360, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Guatemala is an upper-middle-income country of 16.4 million people located in Central
America (1). The gross domestic product in Guatemala is 76 billion USD. In 2014, health …

Access to healthcare system of indigenous communities with musculoskeletal disorders and rheumatic disease in Chaco, Argentina: a qualitative study

R Quintana, S Fernandez, M Fay, C Camacho… - Clinical …, 2021 - Springer
Introduction/objectives The objective of this study is to describe the local healthcare system
from the perspective of the health professionals, community health workers, and local …

[HTML][HTML] Patient navigation and access to cancer care in Guatemala

D Flood, A Chary, K Austad, M Coj… - Journal of Global …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Guatemala is a low-/middle-income nation in Central America with a population of 16 million
people, approximately half of whom are indigenous Maya. The country has disparities in …