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J. Jaime Miranda

Researcher at Cayetano Heredia University

Publications -  497
Citations -  29145

J. Jaime Miranda is an academic researcher from Cayetano Heredia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 431 publications receiving 20656 citations. Previous affiliations of J. Jaime Miranda include Harvard University & University of London.

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The UCL–Lancet Commission on Migration and Health: the health of a world on the move

Ibrahim Abubakar, +46 more
- 15 Dec 2018 - 
TL;DR: The most prominent dialogue focuses almost exclusively on migration from LMICs to high-income countries (HICs), where nationalist movements assert so-called cultural sovereignty by delineating an us versus them rhetoric, creating a moral emergency.
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Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

Honor Bixby, +51 more
- 08 May 2019 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used 2,009 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight in more than 112 million adults, to report national, regional and global trends in mean BMI segregated by place of residence (a rural or urban area) from 1985 to 2017.
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Non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: context, determinants and health policy.

J. Jaime Miranda, +4 more
- 01 Oct 2008 - 
TL;DR: Theories of developmental and degenerative determinants of non‐communicable diseases are discussed to provide strong evidence for a causally informed approach to prevention and the need for health system reform to strengthen primary care is highlighted as a major policy to reduce the toll of this rising epidemic.
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Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez, +1361 more
- 07 Nov 2020 - 
TL;DR: Girls in South Korea, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and some central Asian countries and boys in central and western Europe had the healthiest changes in anthropometric status over the past 3·5 decades because, compared with children and adolescents in other countries, they had a much larger gain in height than they did in BMI.
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Comorbid depression in medical diseases.

Stefan M. Gold, +8 more
TL;DR: The epidemiology, mechanisms, diagnosis and treatment of comorbid depression in patients with medical diseases, including major depressive disorder, are discussed.