Publications by authors named "Maria Adelaida Cordoba"
Can You Hear Us Now? Equity in Global Advocacy for Palliative Care.
J Pain Symptom Manage
October 2022
Article Synopsis
- * Only 12% of the global need for palliative care is currently met, highlighting significant health inequities and the underrepresentation of local practitioners in health policymaking and academic discussions.
- * The paper calls for increased investment in research and advocacy initiatives to empower LMIC practitioners, address barriers, and promote palliative care as an ethical obligation within global health systems.
Background: Treatment options for childhood cancer have improved substantially, although in many low- and middle-income countries survival is lagging behind. Integral childhood cancer care involves the whole spectrum from detection and diagnosis to palliative and survivorship care.
Methods: Based on a literature review and expert opinions, we summarized current practice and recommendations on the following aspects of childhood cancer in Latin America: diagnostic processes and time to diagnosis, stage at diagnosis, treatments and complications, survivorship programs and palliative care and end-of-life services.
Background And Objective: Although kangaroo mother care (KMC) has been shown to be safe and effective in randomized controlled trials (RCTs), there are no published complete economic evaluations including the three components of the full intervention.
Methods: A cost utility analysis performed on the results of an RCT conducted in Bogotá, Colombia between 1993 and 1996. Hospital and ambulatory costs were estimated by microcosting in a sample of preterm infants from a University Hospital in Bogotá in 2011 and at a KMC clinic in the same period.