Carmen García Peña

Biographic Data

ID9066412
NAMECarmen García Peña
GIVEN NAMESCarmen García
FAMILY NAMEPeña
SIGNATUREPENA C G
AFFILIATIONSInstituto Nacional de Pediatria
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT1
EDITOR COUNT8
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Psychosocial characteristics and cognitive function in community-dwelling adults over 50 years old from the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS)

    Open AccessMariana Andrea Barragán García, Ricardo Ramírez‐Aldana et al.ARTICLEPsicología Conocimiento y Sociedad2024

    Aging is an inevitable process that can be associated with cognitive impairment. Evidence about the simultaneous evaluation of psychosocial variables that could be associated with cognitive function is crucial. We aimed to determine the association between psychosocial characteristics and cognition in adults over 50 years in Mexico. The fifth round of the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) (2018) provides the basis for this paper. The study is…

  • Housing conditions and long-term care needs of older adults in Ghana

    Open AccessKofi Awuviry‐newton, Kwamina Abekah-Carter et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    The present study examined the association between housing conditions and long-term care needs of older adults in Ghana. We used data from 4,920 adults aged ≥50 years that participated in the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Study on adult health and AGEing Ghana Wave 1. Housing conditions were assessed with drinking water, sanitation, cooking conditions and building materials, and long-term care needs were based on WHO Disability Assessment Sch…

  • Healthcare professionals’ views on how palliative care should be delivered in Bhutan

    Open AccessTara Devi Laabar, Christobel Saunders et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Palliative care aims to relieve serious health-related suffering among patients and families affected by life-limiting illnesses. However, palliative care remains limited or non-existent in most low- and middle- income countries. Bhutan is a tiny kingdom in the Himalayas where palliative care is an emerging concept. This study aimed to explore the views of Bhutanese healthcare professionals on how palliative care should be delivered in Bhutan. It…

  • Challenge of a dual burden in rapidly aging Delaware

    Open AccessSangeeta Gupta, Carmen García PeñaARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Background Epidemiologic trends forecast a “dual burden”- increase in both physical chronic diseases and Alzheimer’s disease (AD)- for Delaware. Estimating the burden and characteristics of this “dual burden” is critical. Cognizant of the unavailability of precise models to measure AD, SCD—a population-based measure- was used as an alternative. The primary objective was to delineate selected chronic conditions among Delaware adults with SCD in or…

  • Knowledge barriers in a national symptomatic-Covid-19 testing programme

    Open AccessMark S Graham, Anna May et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Symptomatic testing programmes are crucial to the COVID-19 pandemic response. We sought to examine United Kingdom (UK) testing rates amongst individuals with test-qualifying symptoms, and factors associated with not testing. We analysed a cohort of untested symptomatic app users (N = 1,237), nested in the Zoe COVID Symptom Study (Zoe, N = 4,394,948); and symptomatic respondents who wanted, but did not have a test (N = 1,956), drawn from a Univers…

  • Older persons experiences of healthcare in rural Burkina Faso

    Open AccessEllen M Goldberg, Mamadou Bountogo et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Ensuring responsive healthcare which meets patient expectations and generates trust is important to increase rates of access and retention. This need is important for aging populations where non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a growing cause of morbidity and mortality. We performed a cross-sectional household survey including socio-demographic; morbidities; and patient-reported health system utilization, responsiveness, and quality outcomes in …

  • Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of health care waste management among Zambian health care workers

    Open AccessColleen M Leonard, Chipwaila Choolwe Chunga et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Poor management of health care waste poses a serious threat to the health of health care workers, patients and communities. In developing countries, adequate health care waste management (HCWM) is often a challenge. To address this, the Zambian Health Services Improvement Project with HCWM as a component, was implemented in five Zambian provinces (Luapula, Muchinga, Northern, North-Western and Western Provinces), under which this cross-sectional …

  • Assessing the capacity of primary health care facilities in Nigeria to deliver eye health promotion

    Open AccessAE Aghaji, Helen Burchett et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Over 25 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are blind or visually impaired, the majority from avoidable causes. Health promotion and disease prevention are important strategies for eye health, through good governance, health literacy and increasing access to eye care services. To increase equity in access for eyecare services, the World Health Organization Africa Region developed a package of interventions for primary eye care, which includes he…

  • Healthcare providers infection prevention practices and associated factors in community clinics in Bangladesh

    Open AccessKamrul Hsan, Md Saiful Islam et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Healthcare associated infections impose serious challenges to safe and high-quality healthcare delivery, and have been closely associated with poor infection prevention practices. Infection prevention practices are poorly studied in Bangladesh, and no previous studies have examined these practices among healthcare providers of community clinics. The study aimed to assess infection prevention practices and associated factors among healthcare provi…