Marcos Espinal
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 6064749 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Marcos Espinal |
| NOMBRES | Marcos |
| APELLIDO | Espinal |
| FIRMA | ESPINAL M |
| AFILIACIONES | World Health Organization Regional Office for the Americas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7258-3212 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Rethinking public health campaigns in the Covid-19 era
Resistencia a los antimicrobianos
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Antimicrobial resistance
Trachoma elimination in Latin America
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Operational research in the context of advancing towards tuberculosis elimination in the Americas
Emerging and Reemerging Aedes -Transmitted Arbovirus Infections in the Region of the Americas
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Open data and public health
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The Virgin Islands National Information Systems for Health
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El Reglamento Sanitario Internacional, la enfermedad por el virus del Ébola y las enfermedades infecciosas emergentes en América Latina y el Caribe
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Cystic echinococcosis in South America
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Chikunguña
In December 2013, the arboviral disease panorama in the Western Hemisphere changed forever with the first reported indigenous circulation of the chikungunya virus in the Region of the Americas, on the island of Saint Martin (1). From that point on, the epidemic spread at an unprecedented pace in the Region. There was unexpected growth in the number of cases, geographical distribution, challenges to health services, case-fatalities, and economic i…
International Health Regulations, Ebola, and Emerging Infectious Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean
The World Health Organization’s determination of the Ebola virus disease outbreak as a public health event of international concern prompted nonaffected countries to implement measures to prevent, detect, and manage the introduction of the virus in their territories. The outbreak provided an opportunity to assess the operational implementation of the International Health Regulations’ core capacities and health systems’ preparedness to handle a po…
Socioeconomic Factors and Vulnerability to Outbreaks of Leptospirosis in Nicaragua
Leptospirosis is an epidemic-prone zoonotic disease that occurs worldwide, with more than 500,000 human cases reported annually. It is influenced by environmental and socioeconomic factors that affect the occurrence of outbreaks and the incidence of the disease. Critical areas and potential drivers for leptospirosis outbreaks have been identified in Nicaragua, where several conditions converge and create an appropriate scenario for the developmen…
Leptospirosis Outbreaks in Nicaragua
Leptospirosis is an epidemic-prone zoonotic disease that occurs worldwide. In Central America, leptospirosis outbreaks have been reported in almost all countries; Nicaragua in particular has faced several outbreaks. The objective of this study was to stratify the risk and identify "critical areas" for leptospirosis outbreaks in Nicaragua, and to perform an exploratory analysis of potential "drivers". This ecological study includes the entire coun…
Emerging and Reemerging Aedes -Transmitted Arbovirus Infections in the Region of the Americas
The increasing geographical spread and disease incidence of arboviral infections are among the greatest public health concerns in the Americas. The region has observed an increasing trend in dengue incidence in the last decades, evolving from low to hyperendemicity. Yellow fever incidence has also intensified in this period, expanding from sylvatic-restricted activity to urban outbreaks. Chikungunya started spreading pandemically in 2005 at an un…
International Health Regulations, Ebola, and Emerging Infectious Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean
The World Health Organization’s determination of the Ebola virus disease outbreak as a public health event of international concern prompted nonaffected countries to implement measures to prevent, detect, and manage the introduction of the virus in their territories. The outbreak provided an opportunity to assess the operational implementation of the International Health Regulations’ core capacities and health systems’ preparedness to handle a po…
Leptospirosis Outbreaks in Nicaragua
Leptospirosis is an epidemic-prone zoonotic disease that occurs worldwide. In Central America, leptospirosis outbreaks have been reported in almost all countries; Nicaragua in particular has faced several outbreaks. The objective of this study was to stratify the risk and identify "critical areas" for leptospirosis outbreaks in Nicaragua, and to perform an exploratory analysis of potential "drivers". This ecological study includes the entire coun…
Socioeconomic Factors and Vulnerability to Outbreaks of Leptospirosis in Nicaragua
Leptospirosis is an epidemic-prone zoonotic disease that occurs worldwide, with more than 500,000 human cases reported annually. It is influenced by environmental and socioeconomic factors that affect the occurrence of outbreaks and the incidence of the disease. Critical areas and potential drivers for leptospirosis outbreaks have been identified in Nicaragua, where several conditions converge and create an appropriate scenario for the developmen…
International Health Regulations, Ebola, and Emerging Infectious Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean
The World Health Organization’s determination of the Ebola virus disease outbreak as a public health event of international concern prompted nonaffected countries to implement measures to prevent, detect, and manage the introduction of the virus in their territories. The outbreak provided an opportunity to assess the operational implementation of the International Health Regulations’ core capacities and health systems’ preparedness to handle a po…
Cystic echinococcosis in South America
Cystic echinococcosis (CE) or hydatidosis, a parasitic zoonosis caused by a cestode of the family Taeniidae, species Echinococcus granulosus, is endemic in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, and southern Brazil. This report presents CE figures for these five countries in 2009 – 2014 and proposes indicators to measure national control programs. Nearly 5 000 new CE cases were diagnosed annually in the five countries during the study period. The avera…
Chikunguña
In December 2013, the arboviral disease panorama in the Western Hemisphere changed forever with the first reported indigenous circulation of the chikungunya virus in the Region of the Americas, on the island of Saint Martin (1). From that point on, the epidemic spread at an unprecedented pace in the Region. There was unexpected growth in the number of cases, geographical distribution, challenges to health services, case-fatalities, and economic i…
Open data and public health
This article provides an overview of the intersection of open data and public health by first defining open government data, public health data, and other key concepts and relevant terminologies. There are differing perceptions on the urgency and importance of the openness of public health data. It has been established that disease outbreaks such as happened during the Ebola and Zika virus epidemics are indicative of the need for countries to dev…
The Virgin Islands National Information Systems for Health
The British Virgin Islands (BVI) Ministry of Health and Social Development (MOHSD) recently identified the need for an updated strategy to advance the country's vision for Information Systems for Health (IS4H) ("Informed decision-making for better health outcomes"). Since the early 1990s, the MOHSD has recognized the importance of having strong conceptual foundations and mechanisms for its information systems, and the need to strengthen the produ…
El Reglamento Sanitario Internacional, la enfermedad por el virus del Ébola y las enfermedades infecciosas emergentes en América Latina y el Caribe
La determinación por parte de la Organización Mundial de la Salud de que el brote de enfermedad por el virus del Ébola constituía un evento de salud pública de importancia internacional llevó a los países que no estaban afectados a aplicar medidas para prevenir y detectar la introducción del virus en sus territorios y para reaccionar frente a ella. El brote brindó la oportunidad de evaluar la aplicación operativa de las capacidades básicas del Re…
Trachoma elimination in Latin America
Objective. To identify and prioritize municipalities in 22 countries of Latin America for trachoma surveillance activities, to measure the absence or prevalence of trachoma, and to support validation and trachoma elimination efforts in the Region of the Americas. Methods. A prioritization scale was developed in 2017 to rank each municipality by considering a combination of three characteristics: (a) its trachoma vulnerability index, derived from …
Operational research in the context of advancing towards tuberculosis elimination in the Americas
Emerging and Reemerging Aedes -Transmitted Arbovirus Infections in the Region of the Americas
The increasing geographical spread and disease incidence of arboviral infections are among the greatest public health concerns in the Americas. The region has observed an increasing trend in dengue incidence in the last decades, evolving from low to hyperendemicity. Yellow fever incidence has also intensified in this period, expanding from sylvatic-restricted activity to urban outbreaks. Chikungunya started spreading pandemically in 2005 at an un…
Resistencia a los antimicrobianos
avalan a una organizacin o un producto especfico. El uso del logo de la OPS no est permitido. Esta leyenda debe conservarse, junto con la URL original del artculo
Antimicrobial resistance
Rethinking public health campaigns in the Covid-19 era
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