J. Jaime Miranda

TL;DR: Findings provide evidence that asthma and chronic bronchitis are more likely to be associated with obesity and higher fat mass, while COPD is associated with being underweight and having less lean mass.

TL;DR: Exclusive breastfeeding for at least the first six months of life decreases the risk of obesity in children 2 to 5 years old in Bolivia, and a similar but weaker pattern was observed for children in Colombia and Peru.

TL;DR: Hernandez, M.N., Bermudez-Tamayo, C., Alguacil, J., Cantarero, D., Portino, M., Casino, G., Santillan, A., Calvente,M.T., Segura, A.R., Amez, J.G., Cairo, L.A. as discussed by the authors, Epstein, D.

TL;DR: Using a case study of the sexual and reproductive health policies in Peru in the last ten years, the current essay analyzes the implications of quality of care and human rights paradigms in a world in which health and the delivery of care have increasingly globalised dimensions.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined associations between self-reported park proximity with perceived social disorder (drug use/sales, gangs, prostitution and assault and/or crime), and whether these associations are modified by neighborhood characteristics (informal neighborhoods, poor street-lighting, abandoned buildings, illegal dumping).