scholarly journals Prevalence and Factors Associated with Parents’ Non-Intention to Vaccinate Their Children and Adolescents against COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean

Vaccines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1303
Author(s):  
Diego Urrunaga-Pastor ◽  
Percy Herrera-Añazco ◽  
Angela Uyen-Cateriano ◽  
Carlos J. Toro-Huamanchumo ◽  
Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Economic Insecurity ◽  
University Of Maryland ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The University ◽  
Prevalence Ratios

We aimed to estimate the prevalence and factors associated with parents’ non-intention to vaccinate their children and adolescents against COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). We performed a secondary analysis using a database generated by the University of Maryland and Facebook (Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA, USA). We included adult (18 and over) Facebook users residing in LAC who responded to the survey between 20 May 2021 and 14 July 2021. We included sociodemographic characteristics, comorbidities, mental health, economic and food insecurity, compliance with mitigation strategies against COVID-19, and practices related to vaccination against this disease. We estimated the crude (cPR) and adjusted (aPR) prevalence ratios with their respective 95%CI. We analyzed a sample of 227,740 adults from 20 LAC countries. The prevalence of parents’ non-intention to vaccinate their children and adolescents against COVID-19 was 7.8% (n = 15,196). An age above 35 years old, educational level above college, compliance with physical distancing, use of masks, having economic insecurity, having had COVID-19, anxiety symptoms, depressive symptoms, having a chronic condition or two or more comorbidities, and being vaccinated were associated with a lower prevalence of non-intention to vaccinate children and adolescents against COVID-19. Living in a town, a village, or a rural area was associated with a higher prevalence of non-intention to vaccinate children and adolescents against COVID-19. Approximately nine out of ten parents in LAC intended to vaccinate their children and adolescents against COVID-19. Our results allow for understanding parents’ intentions to vaccinate children and adolescents and help promote and develop education strategies for national vaccination plans against COVID-19.

scholarly journals Centros de Apoyo y Desarrollo Educativo Profesional para la observación y disminución de la deserción universitaria

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Oswaldo Flores López ◽  
Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo ◽  
Olga Lucía León Corredor ◽  
Joao Sarraipa ◽  
Celson Pantoja Lima ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
University Staff ◽  
Institutional Rules ◽  
Emotional Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
America Latina ◽  
The University ◽  
And Training

Este artículo ha presentado el estado del arte de la deserción universitaria en Europa y América Latina, y el modelo de Centro de Apoyo y Desarrollo Educativo Profesional (CADEP) para observar y tratar de disminuir la deserción estudiantil. Fue un estudio cualitativo con un enfoque hermenéutico donde se analizaron textos de libros, artículos científicos, informes de congresos, artículos de prensa, leyes, políticas y normas institucionales. Los resultados mostraron: que la deserción universitaria en Europa, América Latina y el Caribe oscila del 30% al 60%, centrada en factores como lo económico, familiar, ambiente pedagógico-didáctico, motivacional y afectivos, y que todos estos factores influyen en el rendimiento académico del estudiantado y propician el abandono de la universidad. Todo este planteamiento, permite al proyecto ACACIA ofrecer un sistema articulado de atención integral, que parte de un enfoque diferencial y con acciones que cubre no sólo las necesidades del estudiantado (de accesibilidad y afectividad en la experiencia de enseñanza y aprendizaje) y sus preferencias, sino también acciones y formación dirigidas al profesorado como al personal técnico y administrativo universitario, sin olvidar a la familia y el entorno social en el que se inscribe la universidad incluyendo al tejido empresarial, con una perspectiva integradora y aplicada de la innovación desarrollada.SummaryThis article presents the state of art of the college desertion in Europe and Latin America, as well as the model of the Support Center and Professional Educational Development (CADEP) in order to observe and try to reduce student’s desertion. The study was qualitative with a hermeneutic approach in which we analyzed different texts books, scientific articles, congress reports, press articles, laws, policies and institutional rules. The results revealed that the college desertion in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean ranges from 30% to 60%, and it is focus on factors such as economic, family, educational, motivational and emotional environment, but most importantly is that all these factors influence the academic performance of students and contribute to the desertion from the university. This whole approach allows the ACACIA project to provide an articulated system of integral attention, that is based on differential approach which includes actions covering not only the needs of the students (accessibility and affection in the experience of teaching and learning) and its preferences, but also actions and training aimed at teachers as well as to the technical and administrative university staff, not forgetting family and the social environment in which the university is a fundamental part, including the business sector, with an integrated perspective of the developed innovation.

scholarly journals Factors associated with violence against adolescents at home in Peru

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renzo Rivera ◽  
Walter Arias-Gallegos
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Family Context ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Adolescent Women ◽  
Robust Variance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Adult World ◽  
Prevalence Ratios ◽  
At Home

Background: Adolescence responds to a period of maturity and adjustment to the adult world; therefore, it is influenced by the social and family context, as well as by the previous stages of development. The objective of the present investigation was to determine the factors associated with violence against adolescents at home in Peru. Methods. A secondary analysis of the National Survey of Social Relations 2015 was carried out. The sample was of 1491 adolescents between 12 to 17 years old. Raw (PR) and adjusted (PRa) prevalence ratios using Poisson regression with robust variance were estimated. Results. It was found that adolescent women (PRa: 1.4; 95% CI: 1.17-1.68) and adolescents who live in homes where there are continuous fights or arguments between parents or adults who live there (PRa: 2.75; 95% CI: 2.11-3.57) have a higher risk of violence. Conclusions. Women and adolescents who live in families where there are continuous arguments between parents or adults have a high risk of domestic violence.

scholarly journals Perspectivas e desafios para a Educação Superior na América Latina e o Caribe: Entrevista com Roberto Leher, Reitor da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, com comentários de Mário Luiz de Azevedo, da Universidade Estadual de Maringá

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
Fernanda Geremias Leal ◽  
Roberto Leher ◽  
Mário Luiz Luiz Neves De Azevedo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Latin America ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Public University ◽  
Regional Conference ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
America Latina ◽  
The University

An interview with Professor Roberto Leher, Rector of the largest federal public university in Brazil, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), on the situation of higher education in the country and in Latin America and the Caribbean. The interview addresses the preparation of Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo (AUGM), created in 1990 and composed by 35 public universities from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, for the III Regional Conference for Higher Education (CRES), held in Cordoba, Argentina, in June 2018. The interview addresses, among other aspects, higher education as a public good and fundamental human social and individual right; the commodification of the sector in Latin America; the influence of international organizations in the directions of higher education around the world; the advances of science and the challenges in the development of the countries of the region; the importance of CRES for the future of the university, as well as the role of student participation and mobilization in this scenario. At the end of the interview, there is an analysis with comments made by Professor Mario Luiz Neves de Azevedo, researcher of the field in Brazil.

scholarly journals Knowledge barriers in the symptomatic-COVID-19 testing programme in the UK: an observational study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark S Graham ◽  
Anna May ◽  
Thomas Varsavsky ◽  
Carole Sudre ◽  
Benjamin Murray ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Symptom Duration ◽  
Testing Methods ◽  
University Of Maryland ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Public Health Messages ◽  
Knowledge Barriers ◽  
Gap Risk ◽  
Pandemic Response ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University

Background Symptomatic testing programmes are crucial to the COVID-19 pandemic response. We sought to examine United Kingdom (UK) testing rates amongst individuals with test-qualifying symptoms, and factors associated with not testing. Methods We analysed a cohort of untested symptomatic app users (N=1,237), nested in the Zoe COVID Symptom Study (Zoe, N= 4,394,948); and symptomatic survey respondents who wanted, but did not have a test (N=1,956), drawn from the University of Maryland-Facebook Covid-19 Symptom Survey (UMD-Facebook, N=775,746). Findings The proportion tested among individuals with incident test-qualifying symptoms rose from ~20% to ~75% from April to December 2020 in Zoe. Testing was lower with one vs more symptoms (73.0% vs 85.0%), or short vs long symptom duration (72.6% vs 87.8%). 40.4% of survey respondents did not identify all three test-qualifying symptoms. Symptom identification decreased for every decade older (OR=0.908 [95% CI 0.883-0.933]). Amongst symptomatic UMD-Facebook respondents who wanted but did not have a test, not knowing where to go was the most cited factor (32.4%); this increased for each decade older (OR=1.207 [1.129-1.292]) and for every 4-years fewer in education (OR=0.685 [0.599-0.783]). Interpretation Despite current UK messaging on COVID-19 testing, there is a knowledge gap about when and where to test, and this may be contributing to the ~25% testing gap. Risk factors, including older age and less education, highlight potential opportunities to tailor public health messages.

Factors associated with hysterectomy among older women from Latin America and the Caribbean

2015 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 522-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel A. Escobar ◽  
Ana M. Botero ◽  
Miranda G. Cash ◽  
Carlos A. Reyes-Ortiz
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
The Caribbean

scholarly journals Frutos de la cooperación nacional e internacional. El caso del convenio IDIAPIFCAlCIAT en Panamá (1982- 1988).

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
César P. Martínez ◽  
Enrique Espinosa ◽  
Luis E. Berrio ◽  
Ariel E. Jaen ◽  
Eric Batistel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Gene Flow ◽  
Drought Stress ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Tropical Agriculture ◽  
Average Percentage ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Key Sites ◽  
The University

An agreement was signed in 1982 between the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Palmira, and two official Panamanian institutions for agricultural research: the Panamanian Institute for Agricultural Research (IDIAP), and the University of Panamas Agricultural Sciencies Faculty (FCA). This project was carried out between 1982 and 1988, and its main purpose was to obtain improved rice germplasm under the irrigation and normal conditions prevailing in the zone. The development and achievements of this project are discussed in this documento Key sites for evaluations of segregating genotypes (F2-F8) were identified, and a gene flow was established which joined the different selection sites in Panama with the CIAT rice projects and the international rice experiments in Latin America and the Caribbean. A total of 38.305 segregating lines were evaluated, including international nurseries. The selection average percentage was 13%. Susceptibility to the main diseases and drought stress were the most selective important factors for germplasm failure. These results show the importance of interinstitutional cooperation. The results obtained went beyond the borders and time-frame that were initially established for this project.

Legal Materials from Latin America and the Caribbean: Some Ideas for Acquisition

1984 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 103-116
Author(s):  
Ellen G. Schaffer
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Library ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Language Knowledge ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Acquisition Processes ◽  
The University ◽  
Latin American And Caribbean

The proceedings of the fifteenth Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, held at the University of Toronto, June 23-26, 1970, include a number of papers addressing issues relevant to the acquisition of Latin American legal resources. Fourteen years later I would like to report that many of the difficulties described therein have changed sufficiently to allow for the development of orderly selection and acquisition processes. Unfortunately, this is not generally the case. In 1970, Fernando J. Figueredo quoted a Spanish proverb: “suerte te dé Dios, que el saber te vale poco”, or in English, “ask God for luck, since knowledge will be of little help to you”. I suggest that good fortune combined with language knowledge, a familiarity with the legal systems involved, a tenacity of spirit, and a sense of humour are all requisites to the successful pursuit of Latin American and Caribbean legal materials. Since SALALM XV's proceedings are published and available for consultation, I prefer not to review all of the problems outlined there. Instead, this paper will offer what will hopefully be some creative, unusual methods of identifying and locating copies of legal publications.

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