Publications by authors named "Macarena Hirmas-Adauy"
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- A scoping review conducted between April and May 2022 mapped digital health initiatives aimed at elderly individuals and their caregivers, using established methodologies and various databases.
- The review analyzed 421 documents, most of which were published from 2013 to 2022, highlighting a trend towards home-based applications primarily tested in high-income countries, with common devices being telephones and computers.
- Findings indicate a growing role of technology for health monitoring, prevention, and treatment, yet emphasize the need for more research focused on middle- and low-income countries and on the effectiveness of these digital health interventions.
Identify barriers and facilitators in access to medicines for diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia, considering patient, health provider, and health system perspectives. Scoping review based on Joanna Briggs methodology. The search considered PubMed, Cochrane Library, CINAHL, Academic Search Ultimate, Web of Science, SciELO Citation Index, and grey literature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Syphilis, together with other sexually transmitted infections, remains a global public health problem that is far from controlled. People deprived of liberty are a vulnerable population. Control activities in prisons rely mostly on passive case detection, despite the existence of affordable alternatives that would allow switching to active case-finding strategies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFINTRODUCTION Population aging is a worldwide phenomenon. It is estimated that by 2050, one of five persons will be aged ≥60 years. In Chile, 15.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To determine whether health care access barriers and facilitators cut across different populations, countries, and pathologies, and if so, at which stages of health care access they occur most frequently.
Methods: A qualitative systematic review of literature published between 2000 and 2010 was undertaken drawing on six international sources: Fuente Académica, MEDLINE (full-text), Academic Search Complete (a full-text multidisciplinary academic database), PubMed, SciELO, and LILACS. Scientific appraisal guidelines from the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme Español (CASPe) and Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) were applied.