Publications by authors named "A Bracho"
This essay describes a process for integrating US Latiné communities as drivers of a grassroots vision for healthy Latiné communities and health equity planning that addresses racial injustices. Transforming structural conditions to promote Latiné community health happens alongside creating conditions for community-level self-determination to foster community-based ecosystems of health. Integrating a life course perspective, we describe a vision for community-based ecosystems of Latiné health that is rooted in forging connections and cultivating community; building community power to address structural drivers of health; leveraging the expertise and assets of to reach, engage, and mobilize communities; scaling solutions through policy, system, and environment changes; and grounding research processes in community-driven priorities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe present a case of cytomegalovirus (CMV) polyradiculopathy which occurred concomitantly with CMV encephalitis and CMV retinitis in a patient with HIV/AIDS. Our patient is a 43-year-old male who was admitted with progressive changes in mentation. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis showed elevated white blood cell (WBC), low glucose, and elevated protein.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Community service providers (CSPs) play an integral role in the health care of low-income Hispanic or Latinx (HL) communities. CSPs have high-stress frontline jobs and share the high-risk demographics of their communities. Relational savoring (RS) has been associated with lower cardiovascular reactivity and psychosocial benefits, with particular promise among HL participants.
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- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) affects about 2% of people around the world, but we don’t know exactly what causes it.
- Most research so far has focused mainly on people of European descent, which can leave out important information for people from other backgrounds.
- The LATINO initiative aims to include 5,000 people with OCD from Latin America and other countries, helping to gather more diverse data to improve our understanding and treatment of OCD globally.