Publications by authors named "Jorge Avalos"

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the spread of Covid-19 a pandemic. An overloaded sampling system was not sufficient, while radiography examinations proved to be reliable in the diagnosis of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Radiographers are front line workers whose work has contributed to the fight against Covid-19.

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Background: Pantawid, a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program in the Philippines, provided grants conditioned on health-related behaviors for children aged 0-5 y and schooling for those aged 10-14 y.

Objective: We investigated whether Pantawid improved anthropometric measurements in children aged 6-36 mo.

Methods: We estimated cross-sectional intention-to-treat effects using a 2011 cluster-randomized trial across 130 villages-65 treated and 65 control-with data collected after 31 mo of implementation.

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