Montag, Doreen , Barboza, Marco, Brehaut, Ivan, Alva, Isaac, Murayari, Italo García, Bennett, Aoife, Sanchez-Choy, José, Barletti, Juan Pablo Sarmiento, Valenzuela, Pilar, Manuyama, José, Vásquez, Miguel Guimaraes, Panduro, Celso Aguirre, Flores, Elaine C., Giattino, Angela, Cadenas, Edwin Julio Palomino, Lazo, Rodrigo, Delgado, Carlos A., Nino, Alfonso, Pesantes, Maria Amalia, Cauper, Lizardo, Murillo, Juan Pablo, Belaunde, Luisa Elvira, Recuenco, Sergio, Chuquimbalqui, Robert, and Zavaleta-Cortijo, Carol

Systematic and persistent discrimination against Indigenous Peoples translates into differential health outcomes when analysed
through ethnicity and/or mother tongue. In Peru, morbidity and mortality rates among Indigenous...

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Al-Rousan, Tala, Awad, Mina, Pesantes, Maria Amalia, Kandula, Namratha R., Huffman, Mark D., Miranda, J. Jaime, Vidal-Perez, Rafael, Dzudie, Anastase, and Anderson, Cheryl A.M.

Home blood pressure management, including self-monitoring and medication self-titration, is an efficient and cost-effective tool. Although its use is increasing globally, little is known about the feasibility of such...

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Pesantes, Maria Amalia, Macera, Mariella Bazán, Mercier, Sabine, and Katic, Pamela Giselle

Amazonian Indigenous Peoples are undergoing drastic changes in their ways of life including the quality and availability of food and its impact on their health and well-being. Indigenous populations have their own perspectives...

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Pesantes, Maria Amalia, Ferrazza, Isabella, and Miranda, J. Jaime

Introduction: Living with a chronic condition is a challenging experience, as it can disrupt your capacity to function and fulfill social roles such as being a father. Fatherhood constitutes an important component of...

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Lazo-Porras, Maria, Del Valle, Adela, Beran, David, Pesantes, Maria Amalia, Perez-Leon, Silvana, Ponce-Lucero, Vilarmina, Bernabe-Ortiz, Antonio, Cárdenas, Maria Kathia, Chappuis, François, Perel, Pablo, Miranda, J. Jaime, and Diez-Canseco, Francisco

Objective:This study aimed to conduct a process evaluation of a salt substitute trial conducted in Peru.

Methods: Through semi-structured interviews of intervention participants, we documented and analyzed process...

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Ferrazza, Isabella and Pesantes, Maria Amalia

Type II diabetes is increasingly becoming a problem in Latin American countries such as Peru. People living with diabetes must incorporate several behavioral changes in their everyday lives, which are done outside the purview...

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Pesantes, Maria Amalia, Cardenas Palacios, Cynthia, Hewlett, Christopher, and Maake, Caroline

Introduction: Indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin, in Peru and elsewhere, suffered disproportionately from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. In part, this was due to an initial lack of support by the Ministry of...

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Pesantes, Maria Amalia, Cortez, Leonardo, Scaramuttti, Carolina, Portocarrero, Jill, Haghparast-Bidgoli, Hassan, and Maranda, J. Jaime

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Presentar y analizar la respuesta que el sistema de salud peruano viene dando a las necesidades en salud sexual y reproductiva de las mujeres venezolanas que radican en la ciudad de Lima, Perú e identificar...

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Mallard, Alistair, Pesantes, Maria Amalia, Zavaleta-Cortijo, Carol, and Ward, James

Globally, Indigenous populations have fared poorly in relation to their non-Indigenous counterparts in previous pandemics hence it is important to assess how they are faring in the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the vulnerability...

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Pesantes, Maria Amalia and Gianella, Camila

Los que trabajamos en salud indígena sabemos que es muy común que los pobladores indígenas o campesinos sean representados como culpables de sus problemas de salud, desconociendo que los pobres indicadores de salud en los...

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