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Fernando E. Viteri
Researcher at Pan American Health Organization
Publications - 7
Citations - 204
Fernando E. Viteri is an academic researcher from Pan American Health Organization. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social class & Poverty. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 7 publications receiving 204 citations. Previous affiliations of Fernando E. Viteri include University of California.
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Arterial Blood Pressure and Modernization in Brazil
TL;DR: It is argued that sociocultural risk factors emerge in the modernization process as a result of social structural imbalances generated by economic development and represent independent risk factors for elevated arterial blood pressure.
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Arterial blood pressure and individual modernization in a Mexican community.
TL;DR: The results are consistent with a model in which degree of community modernization, especially as it influences social class structure, is a boundary condition determining the relationship between the adoption of modern behaviors and health status.
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Nutrition and Health: Studying Health and Nutrition Behaviour by Examining Household Decision- Making, Intra-Household Resource Distribution, and the Role of Women in These Processes
TL;DR: It is necessary to identify intra-household factors that influence health and nutrition behaviour and advocate designing and testing educational messages that address all aspects of household behaviour.
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La deficiencia de hierro y la anemia en niños mexicanos: Acciones para prevenirlas y corregirlas
Homero Martínez-Salgado,Esther Casanueva,Juan Rivera-Dommarco,Fernando E. Viteri,Hector Bourges-Rodriguez +4 more
TL;DR: Para tratar y prevenir the anemia se puede aumentar the ingestion of hierro biodisponible, mitigar sus perdidas, y aumenting su reserva mediante la ligadura tardia del cordon umbilical.