Publications by authors named "B Caicedo-Velasquez"
Introduction: The pandemic had a profound impact on the provision of health services in Cúcuta, Colombia where the neighbourhood-level risk of Covid-19 has not been investigated. Identifying the sociodemographic and environmental risk factors of Covid-19 in large cities is key to better estimate its morbidity risk and support health strategies targeting specific suburban areas. This study aims to identify the risk factors associated with the risk of Covid-19 in Cúcuta considering inter -spatial and temporal variations of the disease in the city's neighbourhoods between 2020 and 2022.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe role of gender inequality and health expenditure on the coverage of demand for family planning satisfied by modern contraceptives: a multilevel analysis of cross-sectional studies in 14 LAC countries.
Lancet Reg Health Am
March 2023
Article Synopsis
- The study explores the impact of country-level Gender Inequality and Health Expenditure on modern contraceptive use among sexually active women in 14 Latin American and Caribbean countries.
- Results showed that the use of modern contraceptives varied significantly, with Haiti at 41.8% and Colombia at 85.6%, indicating a median coverage of 77.8%.
- Findings suggest that women's education, wealth, and the level of gender inequality in a country influence the likelihood of meeting family planning needs with modern methods.
Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) is an important practice that offers many benefits, such as nutritional support, prevention of infectious and chronic diseases, and assistance in psychosocial and cognitive development. This study aims to identify the determinants associated with EBF abandonment in 1,527 children under six months of age, based on information collected by the Colombian National Survey of Nutritional Status and the Colombian National Demographic and Health Survey, 2010. This is an observational cross-sectional cohort study, in which a hierarchical Poisson regression model with robust variance was applied; considering in the first level the factors associated with the mother and child and, in the second level, the information of 32 departments and Bogotá.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Children under five years of age living in poor areas and with low availability of healthy food have a higher risk of undernutrition-related mortality. However, this relationship has not been well established among older adults.
Objective: To analyse socioeconomic inequality trends related to undernutrition mortality in children under five years of age and adults over 60 in Colombian municipalities during 2003-2009 and 2010-2016.
Introduction: Self-rated health is strongly associated with morbidity and mortality. It is largely influenced by individual factors but also by individuals' social surroundings and environment.
Objective: To investigate individual, household, and locality factors associated with self-rated ealth in Colombian adults.