Maria-Victoria Zunzunegui
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1729631 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Maria-Victoria Zunzunegui |
| NOMBRES | Maria-Victoria |
| APELLIDO | Zunzunegui |
| FIRMA | ZUNZUNEGUI M |
| AFILIACIONES | Université de Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0827-2804 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 293 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
La escandalosa carencia de información sanitaria en residencias de mayores
Fracciones Atribuibles Poblacionales De Factores De Riesgo Modificables De Demencia en La Ciudad De Madrid
Unequal impact of Covid-19 on excess deaths, life expectancy, and premature mortality in Spanish regions (2020-2021)
We aimed to estimate regional inequalities in excess deaths and premature mortality in Spain during 2020 and 2021, before high vaccination coverage against COVID-19. With data from the National Institute of Statistics, within each region, sex, and age group, we estimated the excess deaths, the change in life expectancy at birth ( e 0 ) and age 65 ( e 65 ) and years of life lost as the difference between the observed and expected deaths using a ti…
La desconocida mortalidad de la población en las residencias de personas mayores de España
Es necesario conocer la mortalidad de las personas mayores que viven en residencias para evaluar sus determinantes, incluyendo las características estructurales y organizativas de estos centros y su relación con la utilización de servicios sanitarios y sociales. Al querer investigar la mortalidad de la población mayor de 65 años que vive en residencias durante la COVID-19 nos encontramos con la imposibilidad de identificar a las personas fallecid…
Refugee Camps as Torturing Environments—An Analysis of the Conditions in the Moria Reception Center (Greece) Based on the Torturing Environment Scale
According to the conceptual model of torturing environments, the Moria reception camp constitutes a space of systematic ill treatment that vulnerated the European legal standards related to torture (Article 3 of the Human Rights Convention). The idea of torturing environments provides a valuable avenue to assess human rights violations in collective spaces and could constitute a useful tool in forensic and litigation processes
Gaceta Sanitaria en 2019. Trabajando para mejorar la eficiencia en la publicación científica
Como cada año, presentamos el informe de la actividad realizada por el equipo editorial a lo largo de 2019, así como los datos de desempeño de la revista. El documento permite analizar los avances y las áreas de mejora de la revista, así como los logros más relevantes que fueron alcanzados.\n\n\t\t\t\t Este año queremos destacar los progresos realizados en la implementación de medidas para mejorar la eficiencia y la integridad en la publicación c…
Financial Fraud, Mental Health, and Quality of Life
Over the past few decades, the financial system has engaged in abusive practices that meet the definition of fraud. Our objective is to compare the prevalence of psychological distress and levels of health-related quality of life according to having been exposed to financial fraud and its economic impact on family finances. The City of Madrid Health Survey 2017 included specific questions on exposure to financial fraud-this section was administer…
Etxean bizi. Metodología de estudio
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Validation of a Social Networks and Support Measurement Tool for Use in International Aging Research
Domains and determinants of a person-centered index of aging well in Canada
Health Behaviors and Chronic Conditions Mediate the Protective Effects of Masculinity for Physical Performance in Older Adults
This study provides evidence that gender roles are independently associated with physical performance. Health behaviors and chronic conditions are mediators of the relationship between gender roles and lower extremity physical function
Factors Associated With Visual Impairment and Eye Care Utilization
VI is more frequent where eye care utilization is low. Domestic violence may be a risk factor for VI
Relationships Between Neighborhood Social Capital and The Occurrence of Outdoor Falls in Canadian Older Adults
Living in neighborhoods with higher levels of social capital was associated with higher risk of falling in older adults, possibly through more involvement in social activities
Early adolescence behavior problems and timing of poverty during childhood
Neighbourhood social and built environment factors and falls in community-dwelling canadian older adults
Older persons are vulnerable to the ill effects of their social and built environment due to age-related limitations in mobility and bio-psychological vulnerability. Falls are common in older adults and result from complex interactions between individual, social, and contextual determinants. We addressed two methodological issues of neighbourhood-health and social epidemiological studies in this analysis: (1) validity of measures of neighbourhood…
User fees exemptions alone are not enough to increase indigent use of healthcare services
The aim of this study was to assess whether user fees exemptions increased healthcare services use among indigents in the Ouargaye district in Burkina Faso. In this pre-post study, we surveyed 1224 indigents in 2010 about their healthcare services use over the preceding 6 months. Of these, 540 subsequently received a user fees exemption card. A follow-up survey was conducted 1 year later with a 55.3% retention rate. Analyses were performed in acc…
Sarcopenic obesity and physical performance in middle aged women
Sarcopenic obesity was present in 7 % of this population of middle-aged women from Northeast Brazil and it was associated with poor physical performance. Sarcopenic obesity may occur in middle-aged women with performance limitations beyond pure sarcopenia-related muscle mass or obesity alone
Differences in hypertension between informal and formal areas of Ouagadougou, a sub-Saharan African city
Hypertension is common among the adult population of Ouagadougou but its detection is low. While there are no differences between formal and informal areas of the city, rural-to-urban migration emerges as an independent risk factor. Known risk factors as obesity and physical inactivity are confirmed while the vulnerability of unmarried women and rural-to-urban migrants maybe specific to this west African population
Early maternal age at first birth is associated with chronic diseases and poor physical performance in older age
This study provides evidence that adolescent childbirth may increase the risk of developing chronic diseases and physical limitations in older age. Results likely reflect both the biological and social consequences of early childbearing and if the observed relationship is causal, it reinforces the importance of providing contraception and sex education to young women, as the consequences of early pregnancy may be life-long
Is the process for selecting indigents to receive free care in Burkina Faso equitable
The community selection process took into account factors related to social vulnerability and functional limitations. However, we cannot affirm that the selection process was perfectly equitable, as it was very restrictive due to the limited budget available and the State's lack of engagement in this matter. Exemption processes should be temporary solutions, and the State should make a commitment to move toward universal healthcare coverage
Evaluation of the Late-Life Disability Instrument (LLDI) in Low-Income Older Populations
LLDI is a good instrument to assess disability in low-income populations. Further research is needed to include culturally acceptable activities for the frequency sub-scale
Social consequences of conflict-related rape
On the role of social support on macroeconomic determinants on elderly people health
Rolden et al 1 examined the association between macroeconomic cycles and variations in mortality rates of middle-aged and older people. They proposed that reductions in social support during good economic times may play an important role in the counterintuitive relationship between macroeconomic cycles and older adults’ health. We welcome this research on the health of the elderly population, an age group seldom considered in the literature on th…
Heavy burden of non-communicable diseases at early age and gender disparities in an adult population of Burkina Faso
Our work suggests that social inequality extends into the distribution of non-communicable diseases among social groups and supports the thesis of a differential vulnerability in Burkinabè women. It raises the possibility of an abnormally high rate of premature morbidity that could manifest as a form of premature aging in the adult population. Increased prevention, screening and treatment are needed in Burkina Faso to address high prevalence and …
The gender gap in mobility
These are the first world-wide data to examine the gender gap in mobility. Differences in chronic diseases are the main reasons for this gender gap. The gender gap seems to be greater in regions with the largest loss of human development due to gender inequality
Social Networks, Social Integration, and Social Engagement Determine Cognitive Decline in Community-Dwelling Spanish Older Adults
Objectives. To examine the influence of social networks and social engagement on cognitive decline in a population-based cohort of elderly people, and to assess gender differences in the effect of social relations on cognition. Methods. A longitudinal study of community-dwelling people over 65 was carried out. Cognitive function (orientation and memory) in 1997 and cognitive decline (absent, mild, and severe) over 4 years (1993-1997) were assesse…
Social networks and self-rated health in two French-speaking Canadian community dwelling populations over 65
Explaining health differences between men and women in later life
Trajectories of Cognitive Decline and Social Relations
We assessed conjoint trajectories of cognitive decline and social relations over 7 years on a representative sample of community-dwelling elderly persons. We analyzed data using repeated measurement models. Social integration, family ties, and engagement with family were associated with cognitive function at advanced ages, controlling for education and introducing depressive symptoms, functional limitations, and chronic conditions as intervening …
The contribution of a gender perspective to the understanding of migrants’ health
In 2005 women represented approximately half of all 190 million international migrants worldwide. This paper addresses the need to integrate a gender perspective into epidemiological studies on migration and health, outlines conceptual gaps and discusses some methodological problems. We mainly consider the international voluntary migrant. Women may emigrate as wives or as workers in a labour market in which they face double segregation, both as m…
Early adolescence behavior problems and timing of poverty during childhood
Life Course Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Cognitive Function Among the Elderly Population of Seven Capitals in Latin America and the Caribbean
Life course SED is related to cognitive function later in life. Difficulty in properly distinguishing cognitive function from test performance remains an issue
Community unemployment and immigrants' health in Montreal
Discrimination and mental health in Ecuadorian immigrants in Spain
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to examine the effects of ethnic discrimination on the mental health of Ecuadorian immigrants in Spain and to assess the roles of material and social resources. METHODS: Data were taken from the "Neighbourhood characteristics, immigration and mental health" survey conducted in 2006 in Spain. Psychological distress measured as "Possible Psychiatric Case" (PPC) was measured by the GHQ-28. A logistic regression …
Validity and Reliability of the Short Physical Performance Battery in Two Diverse Older Adult Populations in Quebec and Brazil
This study provides evidence for the validity and reliability of SPPB in diverse populations
Active ageing’
The aim of this study was to document the perceptions of elders in six Caribbean countries about ‘active ageing’ and on the basis of their reports to make recommendations to improve their situation. Data were collected principally through 31 focus group discussions conducted in both urban and rural areas. Comparative analysis was carried out of the qualitative information, focusing on three components of ‘active ageing’: health and social service…
Contributions of Immigration to Depressive Symptoms Among Pregnant Women in Canada
Social and Gender Inequalities in Depressive Symptoms Among Urban Older Adults of Latin America and the Caribbean
Cumulative life course exposure to social and material disadvantage and current material, social, and health conditions explain the higher frequency of depression in women
Gender Differences in Lower Extremity Function in Latin American Elders
Life-course exposures predict mobility, but further research is needed to identify intervening factors relating gender to mobility in old age
Understanding the dimensions of socioeconomic status that influence toddlers’ health
Study objectives: To examine the unique impact of financial difficulties as measured by a lack of money for basic needs on the occurrence of health problems between the ages of 17 and 29 months, controlling for mother’s level of education and neonatal health problems. Design and participants: Analyses were performed on the 29 month data of the Quebec longitudinal study of child development. This longitudinal study followed up a birth cohort annua…
The influence of poverty and social support on the perceived health of children born to minority migrant mothers
In Quebec, economic hardship and lack of social support are common realities among minority migrants with young children. Combined exposure to poverty and low social support is most detrimental to the perceived health of children of minority migrants
Social consequences of conflict-related rape
Body Mass Index and Long-Term Mortality in an Elderly Mediterranean Population
Underweight is a risk factor for mortality among elderly people, whereas overweight and mild obesity are associated with the lowest mortality particularly among men and those with cardiovascular morbidity
Validation of a Social Networks and Support Measurement Tool for Use in International Aging Research
Family, religion, and depressive symptoms in caregivers of disabled elderly
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To explain the variations in depressive symptomatology among primary caregivers of community dwelling activities of daily living disabled elderly and to evaluate the role of family and religiosity on the mental health consequences of caregiving in Spain. DESIGN: Cross sectional study. SETTING: City of Leganés in the metropolitan area of Madrid, Spain. PARTICIPANTS: All caregivers of a representative sample of community dwelling a…
Guidelines for Field Reporting of Basic Human Rights Violations
In recent decades, many governments around the world have engaged in the widespread violation of basic human rights of their peoples by the practices of killing, disappearances, physical and psychological torture, arbitrary detention, and exile. Such practices, particularly prevalent under undemocratic and repressive military regimes of Third World countries, involve varying degrees of state participation, from active violations by state official…
Relationships Between Neighborhood Social Capital and The Occurrence of Outdoor Falls in Canadian Older Adults
Living in neighborhoods with higher levels of social capital was associated with higher risk of falling in older adults, possibly through more involvement in social activities
User fees exemptions alone are not enough to increase indigent use of healthcare services
The aim of this study was to assess whether user fees exemptions increased healthcare services use among indigents in the Ouargaye district in Burkina Faso. In this pre-post study, we surveyed 1224 indigents in 2010 about their healthcare services use over the preceding 6 months. Of these, 540 subsequently received a user fees exemption card. A follow-up survey was conducted 1 year later with a 55.3% retention rate. Analyses were performed in acc…
On the role of social support on macroeconomic determinants on elderly people health
Rolden et al 1 examined the association between macroeconomic cycles and variations in mortality rates of middle-aged and older people. They proposed that reductions in social support during good economic times may play an important role in the counterintuitive relationship between macroeconomic cycles and older adults’ health. We welcome this research on the health of the elderly population, an age group seldom considered in the literature on th…
Validación de escalas de seguridad alimentaria y de apoyo social en una población afro-colombiana
Nosotros realizamos un estudio transversal en 193 madres de niños de 6 a 18 meses de edad de una comunidad afro-colombiana con los objetivos: (1) adaptar y validar la escala de hambre del Community Childhood Hunger Identification Project, de apoyo social de DUKE-UNC-11, y de apoyo del compañero del Québec Longitudinal Study of Child Development (QLSCD), e (2) identificar la relación entre la inseguridad alimentaria y el soporte social con el esta…
Guidelines for Field Reporting of Basic Human Rights Violations
In recent decades, many governments around the world have engaged in the widespread violation of basic human rights of their peoples by the practices of killing, disappearances, physical and psychological torture, arbitrary detention, and exile. Such practices, particularly prevalent under undemocratic and repressive military regimes of Third World countries, involve varying degrees of state participation, from active violations by state official…
A Demographic and Health Survey of Spanish Female Sex Workers
In order to examine the prevalence of HIV infection and associated risk factors amongst Spanish female prostitutes a multicentre (n = 22) cross-sectional study was conducted between November 1989 and January 1991. Data collected included socioeconomic characteristics, sexual behavior and health status together with blood samples. A total of 1633 prostitutes were recruited into the study. Of these, 1433 (87.8%) consented to blood samples being tak…
Family, religion, and depressive symptoms in caregivers of disabled elderly
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To explain the variations in depressive symptomatology among primary caregivers of community dwelling activities of daily living disabled elderly and to evaluate the role of family and religiosity on the mental health consequences of caregiving in Spain. DESIGN: Cross sectional study. SETTING: City of Leganés in the metropolitan area of Madrid, Spain. PARTICIPANTS: All caregivers of a representative sample of community dwelling a…
Support from children, living arrangements, self-rated health and depressive symptoms of older people in Spain
OBJECTIVE: To assess the association between emotional and instrumental support from children and living arrangements with the physical and mental health of older people in Spain. METHODS: A face-to-face home interview was carried out with 1284 community-dwelling people over 65 (response rate = 83%) randomly sampled according to an age- and sex-stratified sampling scheme in 1993 at Leganés (Spain). Close to 93% of the participants had children an…
The role of prisons in the HIV epidemic among female injecting drug users
The objective of this study was to describe factors associated with imprisonment of female injecting drug users (IDUs) and to assess if female IDUs who have been in prison have different HIV risk behaviours when compared to females IDUs who have never been incarcerated. A seroepidemiological survey was conducted of 304 female IDUs recruited in outreach and treatment programmes in Madrid, Spain. Data on sociodemographic characteristics and recent …
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Social Networks, Social Integration, and Social Engagement Determine Cognitive Decline in Community-Dwelling Spanish Older Adults
Objectives. To examine the influence of social networks and social engagement on cognitive decline in a population-based cohort of elderly people, and to assess gender differences in the effect of social relations on cognition. Methods. A longitudinal study of community-dwelling people over 65 was carried out. Cognitive function (orientation and memory) in 1997 and cognitive decline (absent, mild, and severe) over 4 years (1993-1997) were assesse…
Social networks and self-rated health in two French-speaking Canadian community dwelling populations over 65
Trajectories of Cognitive Decline and Social Relations
We assessed conjoint trajectories of cognitive decline and social relations over 7 years on a representative sample of community-dwelling elderly persons. We analyzed data using repeated measurement models. Social integration, family ties, and engagement with family were associated with cognitive function at advanced ages, controlling for education and introducing depressive symptoms, functional limitations, and chronic conditions as intervening …
Understanding the dimensions of socioeconomic status that influence toddlers’ health
Study objectives: To examine the unique impact of financial difficulties as measured by a lack of money for basic needs on the occurrence of health problems between the ages of 17 and 29 months, controlling for mother’s level of education and neonatal health problems. Design and participants: Analyses were performed on the 29 month data of the Quebec longitudinal study of child development. This longitudinal study followed up a birth cohort annua…
Validación de escalas de seguridad alimentaria y de apoyo social en una población afro-colombiana
Nosotros realizamos un estudio transversal en 193 madres de niños de 6 a 18 meses de edad de una comunidad afro-colombiana con los objetivos: (1) adaptar y validar la escala de hambre del Community Childhood Hunger Identification Project, de apoyo social de DUKE-UNC-11, y de apoyo del compañero del Québec Longitudinal Study of Child Development (QLSCD), e (2) identificar la relación entre la inseguridad alimentaria y el soporte social con el esta…
Links Between Maternal Breast-Feeding Duration and Québec Infants’ Health
Community unemployment and immigrants' health in Montreal
Poverty and Cumulative Hospitalization in Infancy and Early Childhood in the Quebec Birth Cohort
Gender Differences in Lower Extremity Function in Latin American Elders
Life-course exposures predict mobility, but further research is needed to identify intervening factors relating gender to mobility in old age
Social and Gender Inequalities in Depressive Symptoms Among Urban Older Adults of Latin America and the Caribbean
Cumulative life course exposure to social and material disadvantage and current material, social, and health conditions explain the higher frequency of depression in women
The contribution of a gender perspective to the understanding of migrants’ health
In 2005 women represented approximately half of all 190 million international migrants worldwide. This paper addresses the need to integrate a gender perspective into epidemiological studies on migration and health, outlines conceptual gaps and discusses some methodological problems. We mainly consider the international voluntary migrant. Women may emigrate as wives or as workers in a labour market in which they face double segregation, both as m…
Life Course Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Cognitive Function Among the Elderly Population of Seven Capitals in Latin America and the Caribbean
Life course SED is related to cognitive function later in life. Difficulty in properly distinguishing cognitive function from test performance remains an issue
Long-term Effects of Folic Acid Fortification and B-vitamin Supplementation on Total Folate, Homocysteine, Methylmalonic Acid and Cobalamin in Older Adults
Gender differences in unsafe sexual behavior among young people in urban Mali
We developed gender-specific explanatory models for unsafe sexual behavior among unmarried young people living in urban West Africa using a culturally adapted instrument which addresses personal, relational and socio-cognitive factors. Data were collected on condom use and number of sexual partners, and on their potential determinants, using in-person interviews on a heterogeneous sample of in-school and out-of-school young women (n=185) and (n=2…
Longevity and relationships with children
In this Mediterranean population, maintaining an important role in the lives of one's children is associated with survival. Functions of social networks related to meaning of life and different forms of social support may have important effects on mortality, and these functions may vary across cultures according to family norms and values
Duration of lack of money for basic needs and growth delay in the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development birth cohort
OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between duration of lack of money for basic needs and growth delay in a birth cohort. METHODOLOGY: Mothers of children (n = 1929) from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development (QLSCD) participating when the children were ages 2(1/2) and 4 years were interviewed at home and data were extracted from birth records. Children's height at 4 years old was transformed into an age- and sex-adjusted z-score.…
Discrimination and mental health in Ecuadorian immigrants in Spain
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to examine the effects of ethnic discrimination on the mental health of Ecuadorian immigrants in Spain and to assess the roles of material and social resources. METHODS: Data were taken from the "Neighbourhood characteristics, immigration and mental health" survey conducted in 2006 in Spain. Psychological distress measured as "Possible Psychiatric Case" (PPC) was measured by the GHQ-28. A logistic regression …
Explaining health differences between men and women in later life
Determinants of intention to use condoms among clients of female sex workers in Haiti
A cross-sectional survey was conducted to examine factors influencing intention of condom use among 378 clients of female sex workers (FSWs) visiting commercial sex sites in St-Marc and Gonaives, Haiti. Mean age of the study participants was 24 years. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data on socio-demographic characteristics, behaviors, and the theory of planned behavior (TPB) constructs. Seventy-four percentage of clients reported …
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