Isabel Rada

Biographic Data

ID7799300
NAMEIsabel Rada
GIVEN NAMESIsabel
FAMILY NAMERada
SIGNATURERADA I
AFFILIATIONSUniversidad del Desarrollo
ORCID0000-0002-6990-4951
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Challenges for the prevention of hypertension among international migrants in Latin America

    Open AccessIsabel Rada, Báltica CabiesesARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Among the health priorities of international migrants, non-communicable diseases such as hypertension are of major interest due to their increasing prevalence, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. Previous evidence has reported a significant risk of hypertension in international migrants derived from multiple exposures during the migration process and at the destination, such as living conditions, health literacy and access to preventive s…

  • Calidad de vida relacionada con la salud en chilenos de comunas vulnerables

    Open AccessIsabel Rada, Manuel S Ortiz et al.ARTICLEGaceta Sanitaria2023

    La pandemia de COVID-19 y la crisis sociosanitaria resultante tuvieron impacto sobre el bienestar de la población. La calidad de vida relacionada con la salud (CVRS) podría verse afectada, principalmente en condición de vulnerabilidad social. El objetivo fue analizar la CVRS y las propiedades psicométricas del instrumento EQ-5D en población chilena adulta de comunas vulnerables de la Región Metropolitana. Estudio transversal realizado durante la …

  • Promoting the Participation of “Hard-to-Reach” Migrant Populations in Qualitative Public Health Research during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Chile

    Open AccessAlice Blukacz, Báltica Cabieses et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    The COVID-19 pandemic has further deepened socioeconomic and health inequities worldwide, especially among populations experiencing social vulnerability, such as international migrants. Sustained lockdowns and social distancing have raised challenges to conducting public health research with hard-to-reach populations. This study aims at exploring strategies to recruit "hard-to-reach" international migrants for qualitative public health research d…

  • Unequal Access and Use of Health Care Services among Settled Immigrants, Recent Immigrants, and Locals

    Open AccessMarcela Oyarte, Báltica Cabieses et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Globally, and particularly in the Latin American region, international migration continues to grow. Access and use of health care services by migrants vary according to their country of origin and residence time. We aimed to compare the access and use of health care services between international migrants (including settled migrants from Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador; Emerging migrants from Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Haiti; and …

  • A comparative analysis of health status of international migrants and local population in Chile

    Open AccessIsabel Rada, Marcela Oyarte et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Testing the HME in Chile revealed an advantage for chronic morbidities that remained significant after adjustment for SDH. This analysis shed light on health disparities between international migrants and local population in the Latin American region, with special relevance of unemployment, type of health system and psychosocial SDH. It also informed about differential exposures faced during migration process that could dissolve the HME over time…