Ivan Sisa
Biographic Data
| ID | 6067237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ivan Sisa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ivan |
| FAMILY NAME | Sisa |
| SIGNATURE | SISA I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad San Francisco de Quito |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7503-9044 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A legal battle between Ecuadorian citizens and corporate power
For decades, transnational corporations/companies have been using various strategies (e.g. lobbying for the reduction of taxation) to position their products and influence dietary habits, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 'health taxes' are one of the most effective public health measures for reducing the negative effects of unhealthy products, which have been shown to add to the b…
Research priority-setting is an ethics exercise
To the Editor:Research improves people's health and well-being.While it is not possible to be sure a study will produce positive results (e.g., discovering a cure or other intervention that is effective in preventing or treating a disease), it is clear that not conducting research will not allow to find ways to prevent or treat disease, or otherwise have a positive effect on people's health or well-being.Research priority-setting exercises are ne…
La priorización de la investigación es un ejercicio ético
Lifeguard Training Program and Drowning Death Rates in Ecuador, 2000–2019
Drowning is a common cause of death and disability worldwide. We report the experience of Ecuador, a middle-income country, where a lifeguard training program was implemented to reduce incidents of drowning. We describe how “Project Ecuador” was able to expand from one to 20 beaches in a five-year period. We detail how these interventions triggered the creation of a self-sustained national program and a law proposal that guarantee a safe environm…
A decade of Ecuador ́s efforts to raise its health research output
Ecuadorian HSRA output increased significantly after 2008. This larger volume of scientific output could be the result to the Mandato 14/LOES implemented in the last decade. However, a low percentage of HSRA are dedicated to addressing the country's health priorities. Proper planning, execution and monitoring of national health research agendas would reduce the mismatch between health burden and the HSRA output in Ecuador and other low-and middle…
The negative impact of ad hoc committees for ethical evaluation
Ecuador, an Andean country located in northwestern South America, has not made research a priority. Its publication rate (25 docs/million inhabitants) is among the lowest in the Latin American region.1 This might be partially due to a lack of a national policy on science and technology and government funding for research is low. During the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, funding has been further reduced, as seen in the government ́s decision to cut sta…
Impact of diet on CVD and diabetes mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Objective: To quantify diet-related burdens of cardiometabolic diseases (CMD) by country, age and sex in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Design: Intakes of eleven key dietary factors were obtained from the Global Dietary Database Consortium. Aetiologic effects of dietary factors on CMD outcomes were obtained from meta-analyses. We combined these inputs with cause-specific mortality data to compute country-, age- and sex-specific absolute a…
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A decade of Ecuador ́s efforts to raise its health research output
Ecuadorian HSRA output increased significantly after 2008. This larger volume of scientific output could be the result to the Mandato 14/LOES implemented in the last decade. However, a low percentage of HSRA are dedicated to addressing the country's health priorities. Proper planning, execution and monitoring of national health research agendas would reduce the mismatch between health burden and the HSRA output in Ecuador and other low-and middle…
The negative impact of ad hoc committees for ethical evaluation
Ecuador, an Andean country located in northwestern South America, has not made research a priority. Its publication rate (25 docs/million inhabitants) is among the lowest in the Latin American region.1 This might be partially due to a lack of a national policy on science and technology and government funding for research is low. During the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, funding has been further reduced, as seen in the government ́s decision to cut sta…
Impact of diet on CVD and diabetes mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Objective: To quantify diet-related burdens of cardiometabolic diseases (CMD) by country, age and sex in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Design: Intakes of eleven key dietary factors were obtained from the Global Dietary Database Consortium. Aetiologic effects of dietary factors on CMD outcomes were obtained from meta-analyses. We combined these inputs with cause-specific mortality data to compute country-, age- and sex-specific absolute a…
Lifeguard Training Program and Drowning Death Rates in Ecuador, 2000–2019
Drowning is a common cause of death and disability worldwide. We report the experience of Ecuador, a middle-income country, where a lifeguard training program was implemented to reduce incidents of drowning. We describe how “Project Ecuador” was able to expand from one to 20 beaches in a five-year period. We detail how these interventions triggered the creation of a self-sustained national program and a law proposal that guarantee a safe environm…
Research priority-setting is an ethics exercise
To the Editor:Research improves people's health and well-being.While it is not possible to be sure a study will produce positive results (e.g., discovering a cure or other intervention that is effective in preventing or treating a disease), it is clear that not conducting research will not allow to find ways to prevent or treat disease, or otherwise have a positive effect on people's health or well-being.Research priority-setting exercises are ne…
La priorización de la investigación es un ejercicio ético
A legal battle between Ecuadorian citizens and corporate power
For decades, transnational corporations/companies have been using various strategies (e.g. lobbying for the reduction of taxation) to position their products and influence dietary habits, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 'health taxes' are one of the most effective public health measures for reducing the negative effects of unhealthy products, which have been shown to add to the b…
Political science (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · Ethics in Clinical Research (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Environmental health (2 works) · Ethics in medical practice (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (2 works)