International Journal of Epidemiology

Editor's Choice

Shah Ebrahim

Latin America: old and new challenges
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 689-691; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn141 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial

Cesar G Victora and Laura C Rodrigues

Latin American epidemiology
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 692-693; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn140 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reprints and Reflections

Carlos Chagas

A new disease entity in man: a report on etiologic and clinical observations
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 694-695; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn149 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alvaro Moncayo

Commentary: The lucid reasoning of Carlos Chagas
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 695-696; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn128 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Moisés Goldbaum and Maurício L Barreto

Commentary: The contribution and example of Carlos Chagas
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 697-698; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn129 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ricardo E Gürtler, Liléia Diotaiuti, and Uriel Kitron

Commentary: Chagas disease: 100 years since discovery and lessons for the future
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 698-701; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn134 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

José da Rocha Carvalheiro and Paulo Gadelha

Commentary: Carlos Chagas—predecessor of Epidemiology in Brazil
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 701-703; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn139 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cohort Profiles

Cesar G Victora, Pedro C Hallal, Cora LP Araújo, Ana MB Menezes, Jonathan CK Wells, and Fernando C Barros

Cohort Profile: The 1993 Pelotas (Brazil) Birth Cohort Study
IJE Advance Access published on September 10, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 704-709; doi:10.1093/ije/dym177 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ricardo Jose Reis, Poliana de Freitas La Rocca, Lucca Basile, Albert Navarro, and Miguel Martín

Cohort Profile: The Hospital das Clínicas Cohort Study, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
IJE Advance Access published on January 31, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 710-715; doi:10.1093/ije/dym272 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Aryeh D Stein, Paul Melgar, John Hoddinott, and Reynaldo Martorell

Cohort Profile: The Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP) Nutrition Trial Cohort Study
IJE Advance Access published on February 19, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 716-720; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn028 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Diversion: Photoessay

Marcia Scazufca and Cintia A. F. Seabra

São Paulo portraits: ageing in a large metropolis
IJE Advance Access published on July 31, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 721-723; doi:10.1093/ije/dym154 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Perspectives

Howard Waitzkin, Celia Iriart, Holly Shipp Buchanan, Francisco Mercado, Jonathan Tregear, and Jonathan Eldredge

The Latin American Social Medicine Database: a resource for epidemiology
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 724-728; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn148 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Francisco I Bastos, Carlos Cáceres, Jane Galvão, Maria Amélia Veras, and Euclides Ayres Castilho

AIDS in Latin America: assessing the current status of the epidemic and the ongoing response
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 729-737; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn127 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Célia Landmann Szwarcwald

Strategies for improving the monitoring of vital events in Brazil
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 738-744; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn130 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jaime Breilh

Latin American critical (‘Social’) epidemiology: new settings for an old dream
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 745-750; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn135 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Roberto Briceño-León, Andrés Villaveces, and Alberto Concha-Eastman

Understanding the uneven distribution of the incidence of homicide in Latin America
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 751-757; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn153 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles

Get checked abstract Aluísio JD Barros and Andréa D Bertoldi

Out-of-pocket health expenditure in a population covered by the Family Health Program in Brazil
IJE Advance Access published on April 13, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 758-765; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn063 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Michelle Hackett, Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez, Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, and Ana Maria Segall-Corrêa

Gender of respondent does not affect the psychometric properties of the Brazilian Household Food Security Scale
IJE Advance Access published on May 22, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 766-774; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn084 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Luciana Tricai Cavalini and Antonio Carlos Monteiro Ponce de Leon

Morbidity and mortality in Brazilian municipalities: a multilevel study of the association between socioeconomic and healthcare indicators
IJE Advance Access published on May 24, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 775-783; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn088 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa, Clareci da Silva Cardoso, and Fernando Augusto Proietti

Commentary: Governance: does it matter in shaping health in urban settings? How in-depth can we go?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 784-785; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn138 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract JC Nájera-Ortiz, HJ Sánchez-Pérez, H Ochoa-Díaz, M Arana-Cedeño, MA Salazar Lezama, and M Martín Mateo

Demographic, health services and socio-economic factors associated with pulmonary tuberculosis mortality in Los Altos Region of Chiapas, Mexico
IJE Advance Access published on May 29, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 786-795; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn089 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Michelle L Bell, Marie S O’Neill, Nalini Ranjit, Victor H Borja-Aburto, Luis A Cifuentes, and Nelson C Gouveia

Vulnerability to heat-related mortality in Latin America: a case-crossover study in São Paulo, Brazil, Santiago, Chile and Mexico City, Mexico
IJE Advance Access published on May 29, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 796-804; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn094 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Suzana R Ferrer, Agostino Strina, Sandra R Jesus, Hugo C Ribeiro, Sandy Cairncross, Laura C Rodrigues, and Mauricio L Barreto

A hierarchical model for studying risk factors for childhood diarrhoea: a case–control study in a middle-income country
IJE Advance Access published on May 31, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 805-815; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn093 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract William Checkley, Gillian Buckley, Robert H Gilman, Ana MO Assis, Richard L Guerrant, Saul S Morris, Kåre Mølbak, Palle Valentiner-Branth, Claudio F Lanata, Robert E Black, and and The Childhood Malnutrition and Infection Network

Multi-country analysis of the effects of diarrhoea on childhood stunting
IJE Advance Access published on June 20, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 816-830; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn099 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Bernd Genser, Agostino Strina, Lenaldo A dos Santos, Carlos A Teles, Matildes S Prado, Sandy Cairncross, and Mauricio L Barreto

Impact of a city-wide sanitation intervention in a large urban centre on social, environmental and behavioural determinants of childhood diarrhoea: analysis of two cohort studies
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 831-840; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Valerie A Paz Soldan, Frank H Lee, Cesar Carcamo, King K Holmes, Geoff P Garnett, and Patricia Garcia

Who is getting Pap smears in urban Peru?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 862-869; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn118 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Carlos A Reyes-Ortiz, Luis F Velez, Maria E Camacho, Kenneth J Ottenbacher, and Kyriakos S Markides

Health insurance and cervical cancer screening among older women in Latin American and Caribbean cities
IJE Advance Access published on May 29, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 870-878; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn096 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Marcia Scazufca, Paulo R Menezes, Ricardo Araya, Vanessa D Di Rienzo, Osvaldo P Almeida, David Gunnell, and Debbie A Lawlor

Risk factors across the life course and dementia in a Brazilian population: results from the Sao Paulo Ageing & Health Study (SPAH)
IJE Advance Access published on June 26, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 879-890; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn125 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Elisabeth França, Daisy Xavier de Abreu, Chalapati Rao, and Alan D Lopez

Evaluation of cause-of-death statistics for Brazil, 2002–2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 891-901; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn121 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Francisco Mardones, Luis Villarroel, Lorena Karzulovic, Salesa Barja, Pilar Arnaiz, Marcela Taibo, and Francisco Mardones-Restat

Association of perinatal factors and obesity in 6- to 8-year-old Chilean children
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 902-910; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn133 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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