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Social determinants of malnutrition in Chilean children aged up to five. BMC Public Health 2022; 22:44. [PMID: 34996396 PMCID: PMC8740415 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-021-12455-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2021] [Accepted: 12/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Background This study aimed to ascertain the Social Determinants (SDs) of malnutrition (over and undernutrition) of Chilean children aged up to five. Methods The study was carried out using a sample of children from zero to five years old (n = 1,270,485; 52.2% female) from the National Socioeconomic Characterization Survey (CASEN) 2017. A multinomial logistic regression model was used, where the “child nutritional status” outcome variable assumed three possible values: normal nutrition, overnutrition, and undernutrition, while taking those variables reported in previous literature as independent variables. Results The model, by default, set normal nutrition as the reference group, Count R2 = 0.81. Results show a higher likelihood of both overnutrition and undernutrition among male children from the lowest quintiles, with native ethnic backgrounds, reporting health problems, having public health insurance, and who attend kindergarten. Additionally, higher probabilities of undernutrition in younger than two and living in the north of the country, while overnutrition is more likely in the south. Conclusions Socioeconomic variables are fundamentally related to both over and undernutrition; the current single schema program to prevent malnutrition should consider SDs such as ethnicity and geographical location, among others; moreover, successful nutritional programs—which focused on the lowest quintiles, need to be expanded to other vulnerable groups and pay more attention to overnutrition.
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Núñez A, Manzano CA. Identifying local barriers to access to healthcare services in Chile using a communitarian approach. Health Expect 2021; 25:254-263. [PMID: 34624167 PMCID: PMC8849372 DOI: 10.1111/hex.13371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2021] [Revised: 09/11/2021] [Accepted: 09/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Introduction Previous research has used proxy variables or a unique construct to quantify healthcare access. However, there is a need for a different model that can handle this multivariable problem. This study seeks to develop a way to measure access to the local healthcare system with higher local resolution. Methods A new survey was developed based on communitarian claims, following a behavioural model and an ontological framework. The survey was used to identify local barriers to healthcare services and the local preferences for priority settings. The results were analysed using multiattribute utility functions and individual weights were assigned by a panel of experts. National and regional indexes of access to healthcare were developed. Results The survey contained seven modules and 104 questions. It was conducted on 1885 participants at 42 rural and 231 urban locations in three regions of Chile. The total disutility of the identified barriers to healthcare access at the national level was low (0.1448; values ranged between 0 and 1, with 1 representing a higher barrier) and was higher in the northern region (0.1467). The barriers associated with the health‐policy component showed the highest disutility value, and specific barriers for each community were identified. Conclusions These results have the potential to improve health decision‐making in Chile and can be used to assess the impacts of new health policy reforms. Although this model was tested in Chile, it can be adapted for use in any other country. Patient or Public Contribution Participants contributed to this study by completing a survey, participating in general talks and receiving brochures with the results obtained from this study.
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- Alicia Núñez
- Department of Management Control and Information System, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.,School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA
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Sharma A, Minh Duc NT, Luu Lam Thang T, Nam NH, Ng SJ, Abbas KS, Huy NT, Marušić A, Paul CL, Kwok J, Karbwang J, de Waure C, Drummond FJ, Kizawa Y, Taal E, Vermeulen J, Lee GHM, Gyedu A, To KG, Verra ML, Jacqz-Aigrain ÉM, Leclercq WKG, Salminen ST, Sherbourne CD, Mintzes B, Lozano S, Tran US, Matsui M, Karamouzian M. A Consensus-Based Checklist for Reporting of Survey Studies (CROSS). J Gen Intern Med 2021; 36:3179-3187. [PMID: 33886027 PMCID: PMC8481359 DOI: 10.1007/s11606-021-06737-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 519] [Impact Index Per Article: 173.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2020] [Accepted: 03/17/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Akash Sharma
- University College of Medical Sciences and Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, Dilshad Garden, Delhi, India.,Online Research Club, Nagasaki, Japan
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- Online Research Club, Nagasaki, Japan.,Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- Online Research Club, Nagasaki, Japan.,Department of Emergency, City's Children Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- Online Research Club, Nagasaki, Japan.,Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery and Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Online Research Club, Nagasaki, Japan.,Department of Medicine, Crozer Chester Medical Center, Upland, PA, USA
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- Online Research Club, Nagasaki, Japan.,Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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- Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN) and School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, 852-8523, Japan.
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- Department of Research in Biomedicine and Health, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
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- School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia
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- Division of Transplantation and Immunogenetics, Department of Pathology, Queen Mary Hospital Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
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- School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, 852-8523, Japan
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- Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Palliative Medicine, Kobe University School of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan
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- Department of Psychology, Health & Technology, Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
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- Department of Public Health, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium.,Department of Health Care, Knowledge Centre Brussels Integrated Care, Erasmus Brussels University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Brussels, Belgium
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- Paediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
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- Department of Surgery, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
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- Faculty of Public Health, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- Department of Physiotherapy, Bern University Hospital, Insel Group, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Surgery, Máxima Medical Center, Veldhoven, Veldhoven, the Netherlands
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- Department of Social Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- School of Pharmacy and Charles Perkins Centrey, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Economics, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, 852-8523, Japan
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- School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
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