Research in Latin America: opportunities and challenges

Bakker, Jan; Friedman, Gilberto; Hernández, Glenn

doi:10.1007/s00134-016-4342-3

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“…Evidence-based research to capture these changes and update and create new knowledge is crucial. While we acknowledge health research capacity is on the rise in Colombia in the last two decades, as in some few other countries in Latin America (e.g., Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru) (17), research infrastructure, human capacity, and research funding remain very diverse and challenging in Colombia.…”

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Addressing social determinants of health: reopen the debate and the implications for the health and overall well-being of Colombian people

Mejía-Lancheros

Lachaud

2020

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Mejia-Lancheros C et al. riencing homelessness, substance use disorders, incarceration, and sex workers (3). Colombia, with around 50 million inhabitants, is among the countries in the Americas region and the world with the biggest gap between individuals and/or population groups seated at the top (wealthier individuals) and those placed on the bottom of the social and wealth ladder (4). This situation reflects the disparities and inequalities in the Colombian context, which involves not only the economic dimension but also other life dimensions such as educational, social participation, and access to physical and natural resources (5). The country has also experienced significant socio-demographic and epidemiological changes in the last decades. Firstly, there is the demographic transition, with a decrease of the fertility rate from four children in 1980 to less than two children in 2017, and a rise of life expectancy from 65 to 75 years in the last 35 years (6), which has resulted in rapid ageing of the population. Secondly, Colombia is also experiencing a rapid urbanization process, where the population living in an urban area increased from 56.6% in 1970 to Despite the fact that some disease-processes are linked to unmodifiable causes (e.g., biological sex, genetic or inheritable aspects), the health status of individuals and populations is highly dependent on the social, economic and psychosocial environments, the conditions in which people were born, and the experiences over their life-course. These factors are labeled as the social determinants of health (SDoH) or the "causes of the "causes" (1). SDoH include individual factors such as education, place of residence, employment status, income or housing, and aggregated factors such as access to transportation, quality of the health care system, public safety, social cohesion and support, and national and international trade policies (1, 2), which shape, directly and indirectly, the health outcomes and trajectories of individuals. These socioeconomic conditions at individual, neighborhoods, country and global level account for many systematic health (morbidity and mortality) disparities between and within population groups that are unfair and evitable (known as health inequities). The inequalities and injustices due to social conditions are even more pressing and damaging among economically and socially excluded groups, such as poor individuals, of those people expe

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Section: What Needs To Be Done?mentioning

confidence: 95%

Addressing social determinants of health: reopen the debate and the implications for the health and overall well-being of Colombian people

Mejía-Lancheros

Lachaud

2020

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“…There are major disparities in financial investment in science as a means to drive local development 5. This is especially true in LMICs where scientific productivity is dramatically different from high-income settings 5 6. In lower-resourced settings, low scientific productivity may result from an unsupportive environment for research, combined with cyclic tides of political and economic instability 7 8.…”

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Building capacity in evidence-based medicine in low-income and middle-income countries: problems and potential solutions

Gill¹,

Ali²,

Elsobky³

et al. 2019

BMJ EBM

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“…Buscando explorar o potencial da altmetria e considerando que poucos estudos abordam o impacto alternativo da produção científica da América Latina (AL) (ALPERIN, 2015;ARAÚJO, ALVES, 2019;OLIVEIRA et al, 2018;MARICATO;LIMA, 2017;BARATA, 2019), região que detém 3,5% dos pesquisadores do mundo (ESTENSSORO et al, 2016), o objetivo deste trabalho é qualificar a atenção online * recebida por periódicos e artigos latino-americanos na web social. Para tanto, a partir de uma abordagem analítico-descritiva, são utilizados os dados altmétricos dos títulos que compõem a Rede SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online), que hospeda boa parte dos periódicos mais conceituados da AL (ALPERIN, 2015) e é amplamente reconhecida e bem avaliada regionalmente (ALPERIN et al, 2015;GÓMEZ et al, 2013) Mais especificamente, são três as questões a serem respondidas por meio deste trabalho: 1) Qual é a cobertura da altmetria na base SciELO?…”

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Métricas alternativas para avaliação da produção científica latino-americana: um estudo da Rede SciELO

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Objetivo: Buscando explorar o potencial da altmetria e considerando que poucos estudos abordam o impacto alternativo da produção científica da América Latina, o objetivo deste trabalho é qualificar a atenção online recebida por periódicos e artigos latino-americanos. Metodologia: A partir de uma abordagem analítico-descritiva, são analisados, via Altmetric.com, os dados altmétricos de 1211 periódicos e 18.737 artigos da Rede SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) em termos de fontes da menção, área de conhecimento, país e idioma. Conclusões: A penetração da altmetria na América Latina é caracterizada por 58% dos periódicos e por 13% dos artigos. As menções predominam em periódicos de Ciências da Saúde e Biológicas e em artigos publicados em inglês, sendo o Twitter o destaque dentre as fontes de menção. Com base em indicadores de inserção, penetração e internacionalização, foi possível identificar grupos de países com perfis diferenciados.

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Research in Latin America: opportunities and challenges

Cited by 12 publications

References 14 publications

Addressing social determinants of health: reopen the debate and the implications for the health and overall well-being of Colombian people

Addressing social determinants of health: reopen the debate and the implications for the health and overall well-being of Colombian people

Building capacity in evidence-based medicine in low-income and middle-income countries: problems and potential solutions

Métricas alternativas para avaliação da produção científica latino-americana: um estudo da Rede SciELO

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