• openAccess   Adverse pregnancy and perinatal outcomes in Latin America and the Caribbean: systematic review and meta-analysis 

      Blanco, Estela; Marin, Marcela; Nuñez-Franz, Loreto; Retamal, Erika; Ossa, Ximena Marcela; Woolley, Katherine E.; Oludotun, Tosin; Bartington, Suzanne; Delgado-Saborit, Juana Maria; Harrison, Roy; Ruiz-Rudolph, Pablo; Quinteros, Maria Elisa World Health Organization (2022)
      Objective. To estimate the point prevalence and likely ranges of pregnancy-induced hypertension, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, low birth weight and preterm delivery in Latin America and the Caribbean, and evaluate ...
    • closedAccess   Development of Spatio-Temporal Land Use Regression Models for Fine Particulate Matter and Wood-Burning Tracers in Temuco, Chile 

      Quinteros, Maria Elisa; Blazquez, Carola; Ayala, Salvador; Kilby, Dylan; Cárdenas Ramírez, Juan Pablo; Ossa, Ximena Marcela; Rosas-Díaz, Felipe; Stone, Elizabeth; Blanco, Estela; Delgado-Saborit, Juana Maria; Harrison, Roy; Ruiz-Rudolph, Pablo American Chemical Society (2023-11-17)
      Biomass burning is common in much of the world, and in some areas, residential wood-burning has increased. However, air pollution resulting from biomass burning is an important public health problem. A sampling campaign ...
    • openAccess   Quality of automatic geocoding tools: a study using addresses from hospital record files in Temuco, Chile 

      Quinteros, Maria Elisa; Blazquez, Carola; Rosas, Felipe; Ayala, Salvador; Ossa, Ximena Marcela; Delgado-Saborit, Juana Maria; Harrison, Roy; Ruiz-Rudolph, Pablo; Yohannessen, Karla Escolha das editoras (2022)
      Automatic geocoding methods have become popular in recent years, facilitating the study of the association between health outcomes and the place of living. However, rather few studies have evaluated geocoding quality, with ...
    • openAccess   Temporal and Spatial Trends of Adverse Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes in a Sample of Births from a Public Hospital in Chile 

      Blanco, Estela; Ruiz-Rudolph, Pablo; Yohannessen, Karla; Ayala, Salvador; Quinteros, Maria Elisa; Delgado-Saborit, Juana Maria; Blazquez, Carola; Iglesias, Verónica; Alcántara Zapata, Diana; Bartington, Suzanne; Harrison, Roy; Ossa, Ximena Marcela Springer (2023-05-22)
      Understanding temporal and spatial trends in pregnancy and birth outcomes within an urban area is important for the monitoring of health indicators of a population. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of all births ...