María Cristina Escobar

Biographic Data

ID6776844
NAMEMaría Cristina Escobar
GIVEN NAMESMaría Cristina
FAMILY NAMEEscobar
SIGNATUREESCOBAR M C
AFFILIATIONSPan American Health Organization (Cuba)
ORCID0000-0001-7107-9172
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • HEARTS Calidad

    Open AccessEsteban Londoño, Reena Gupta et al.ARTICLERevista Panamericana de Salud…2026

    HEARTS en las Américas constituye la implementación a mayor escala de la iniciativa mundial HEARTS de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), con la participación de 33 países, 28 de los cuales han adoptado vías clínicas estandarizadas, y cerca de 10 000 centros de atención primaria implicados. A pesar de los avances, algunos factores como la atención fragmentada, la escasa disponibilidad de dispositivos validados para medir la presión arteria…

  • Felony disenfranchisement laws and racial inequities in women's self-rated health

    Open AccessAnna K Hing, Jé Judson et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Objectives: To determine if more strict state-level felony disenfranchisement laws, which are a form of structural racism, are associated with worse self-rated health, and if this association is stronger for Black women compared to white women. Methods: Using Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) 2021, American Community Survey 2017-2021, and State Felony Disenfranchisement Laws in 2020 from the "Locked Out Report" by the Sentencing …

  • Eficacia de una estrategia estandarizada y simplificada para tratamiento de la hipertensión arterial en Chile

    Open AccessLuis Michea, Luis Toro et al.ARTICLERevista Panamericana de Salud…2022

    Objetivo. Evaluar la eficacia de un protocolo estandarizado y simplificado basado en los pilares técnicos de la Iniciativa HEARTS para el control de pacientes hipertensos del Programa de Salud Cardiovascular en el primer nivel de atención de salud en Chile. Métodos. Estudio observacional longitudinal (cohorte histórica), en 2 centros de salud familiar del primer nivel de atención en Santiago, que comparó el control de presión arterial en adultos …

  • Chile’s public healthcare sector hypertension control rates before and during the pandemic and HEARTS implementation

    Open AccessFrancisca Barake, Mélanie Paccot et al.ARTICLERevista Panamericana de Salud…2022

    Hypertension (arterial blood pressure ≥ 140/90 mmHg) is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, with the greatest burden of attributable deaths in Chile, having a national prevalence of 27.6%. In 2018, the implementation of HEARTS begun in primary health care centers of the Public Health System, with the aim of achieving increase in control rates, by raising the proportion of hypertensive individuals who meet blood pressure goals (

  • The Pan American chronic care observatory (pacco)

    Open AccessAlberto Barceló, María Cristina Escobar et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019

    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)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021