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21 December 2025

Latine immigrants may experience a heightened degree of stress related to their immigration status. This is particularly true for immigrants who are in the country unauthorized. Individuals who are unauthorized may experience unique psychosocial stre...

(This article belongs to the Section The Social Nature of Health and Well-Being)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,825 Views
22 Pages

9 October 2024

Latine parent educational engagement literature has established that parents employ rich cultural resources across their environments to support the P-20 attainment of their children. In this qualitative case study, we combine the funds of knowledge...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Familial and Relational Influences on College Outcomes among Minoritized Students)
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  • Open Access
1,574 Views
18 Pages

Improving Health Equity for Spanish-Speaking Latine Communities: Community Priorities, Challenges, and Recommendations

  • Sandy K. Aguilar-Palma,
  • Lilli Mann-Jackson,
  • Jorge Alonzo,
  • Amanda E. Tanner and ,
  • Thomas P. McCoy,
  • Alain G. Bertoni,
  • Omar Valera and
  • Scott D. Rhodes
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Our community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnership convened an in-person, bilingual empowerment theory-based community forum to disseminate and translate findings from our trial of Nuestra Comunidad Saludable (Our Healthy Community), a mul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue System Approaches to Improving Latino Health)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,540 Views
24 Pages

Graduate education often serves as an opportunity for Latine students to leverage their social, familial, and cultural capital as an avenue for increased economic prosperity. However, the journey to pursue a graduate education can be challenging as s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Familial and Relational Influences on College Outcomes among Minoritized Students)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,374 Views
21 Pages

This study used an equity ethic framework and a STEM identity model to contextualize and understand Latine students’ perceptions of STEM identity development. The purpose of this study was to investigate how Latine undergraduate students who en...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pathways to Progress and Practice: Leading the Way in STEM Education Innovations and the Workforce)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,595 Views
23 Pages

Painting, Talking, Rapping and Healing: U.S. Latine Youth and Young Adults Define Wellbeing through Arts-Based PAR

  • Desiree Armas,
  • Israel Juarez,
  • Jennifer Ayala,
  • Jose Dobles and
  • Alexia Estrada

8 September 2023

This paper describes how a collective of Latine youth and adult allies used art-based approaches in a participatory action research project to better understand the ways in which young U.S. Latines make meaning of wellbeing. In this study, we intervi...

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675 Views
18 Pages

8 August 2026

College access programs are well documented to build procedural knowledge of admissions and financial aid, yet less is known about how they demystify the hidden curriculum of college-going for Latine students. To address this gap, we examine a four-d...

(This article belongs to the Section Higher Education)
  • Project Report
  • Open Access
3,716 Views
17 Pages

Individuals who migrate from their home country face a variety of challenges while adapting to the culture in the United States. Immigrant communities are at a significantly higher risk for poor health outcomes; therefore, assessing healthcare treatm...

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1 Citations
1,557 Views
27 Pages

23 August 2025

This exploratory pilot study examined how Latine adolescents’ ethnic–racial identity (ERI)—specifically, centrality, private regard, and public regard—was shaped by parents’ gender role socialization (GRS) beliefs and pe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Effects of the Interaction of Parenting Practices and Environment on Children’s Outcomes)
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1 Citations
1,358 Views
21 Pages

21 August 2025

This study examined how a socioeconomically and linguistically diverse sample of Latine mothers (n = 20) and fathers (n = 20) of children under age five perceive the role of mobile screen technologies in their parenting experiences, using semi-struct...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Interaction between Cultural and Environmental Factors in Children’s Development)
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2,905 Views
11 Pages

27 April 2023

Externalizing behavior problems are among the top mental health concerns in early childhood, and many parenting interventions have been developed to address this issue. To better understand predictors of parenting intervention outcomes in high-risk f...

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  • Review
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2 Citations
5,691 Views
19 Pages

21 February 2025

Background/Objectives: While theoretical articles describing cultural considerations for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment in Latine/x populations exist, empirical trials are less common. The present study aimed to review the existing l...

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6 Citations
6,334 Views
15 Pages

27 November 2024

Background/Objectives: The prevalence of autism has increased substantially among Latine children; however, few service systems are prepared to provide culturally relevant services. Parents Taking Action (PTA) is a culturally informed parent-mediated...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autism beyond School-Age: Characterization, Intervention, and Community Support)
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  • Open Access
277 Views
23 Pages

A Multilevel Mental Health Intervention with Latine Newcomers: The Feasibility and Mixed Methods Results of a Community-Based Participatory Pilot Study

  • Meredith A. Blackwell,
  • David T. Lardier,
  • Julia M. Hess,
  • Cirila Estela Vasquez Guzman and ,
  • Alexandra Hernandez-Vallant,
  • Alexis J. Handal,
  • Kimberly Huyser,
  • Alejandra Lemus,
  • Janet Ramirez and
  • Jessica R. Goodkind
  • + 10 authors+ 5 authors

1 October 2026

Latine immigrants in the U.S. face discrimination, a lack of access to resources, fear of deportation, family separation, and a lack of understanding of the complex factors that have led them to seek safety and survival in a new country, factors that...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Psychology)
  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
1,254 Views
10 Pages

Stigma and Barriers to Mental Health and Substance Use Care for Hispanic/Latine Individuals Living with HIV or at Risk for HIV in Texas, United States

  • Roxana Guzman,
  • Daniel Castellanos,
  • Evelio Salinas Escamilla,
  • Sana Malik and ,
  • Melissa Bessaha and
  • Miguel Muñoz-Laboy
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Objectives: To describe levels of barriers to mental health and substance use services and to examine the associations, if any, between these barriers and substance use and mental health stigma among Hispanic/Latine adults receiving services for HIV...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Breaking Down Barriers: Ensuring Healthcare Access for Migrant and Refugee Communities)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,418 Views
19 Pages

17 August 2023

The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) eating plan is the most effective dietary intervention for cardiovascular disease (CVD), but it excludes the consideration of culture and cost. The Hispanic/Latine population is disproportionately af...

(This article belongs to the Section Nutrition and Public Health)
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  • Open Access
1,516 Views
15 Pages

Does Bedtime Really Matter? Examining How Sleep Timing Relates to Sleep Duration and Overweight Status in Midwestern Latine Youth

  • Blake L. Jones,
  • Bethany Lundy,
  • Dakin Stovall,
  • Benjamin D. Seely and ,
  • Kelsey Zaugg,
  • Joshua Castro,
  • Kara M. Duraccio,
  • Chad D. Jensen,
  • Tanya Austin and
  • Zoe E. Taylor
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

26 December 2025

Background/Objectives: Overweight and obesity is a continuing health concern for preadolescent youth. We assessed associations between sleep timing and sleep duration and body mass index/body composition in Latine youth. Methods: Participants were 11...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Childhood Obesity: Prevention, Intervention and Treatment)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,691 Views
23 Pages

Structured Happenstance: Pathways Toward Upward Mobility Among First-Generation Latine College Students

  • Clarissa Gutiérrez,
  • Amado M. Padilla,
  • Oswaldo Rosales,
  • Miriam Rivera and ,
  • Veronica Juarez and
  • Michael Spencer
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 October 2025

Higher education is often positioned as a pathway to upward social mobility, yet access to highly selective universities (HSUs) remains limited, with first-generation college (FGC) students from low-income and ethnoracially minoritized backgrounds di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Class Divide in Higher Education: Compounding Privilege, Multiplying Barriers)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,386 Views
13 Pages

31 January 2021

This communication provides a discussion of a scheme originally proposed by Falcón in a paper entitled “Latin squares associated to principal autotopisms of long cycles. Applications in cryptography”. Falcón outlines the protocol for a cryptographica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Codes, Designs, Cryptography and Optimization)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,999 Views
18 Pages

28 February 2019

This paper aims to contribute to the clarification of the linguistic and extra-linguistic circumstances that accompany the emergence and behavior of mediante in the first centuries of Spanish. To this end, the origin of the Latin participle medians, ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Studies in Historical Linguistics and Language Change. Grammaticalization, Refunctionalization and Beyond)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,521 Views
13 Pages

25 September 2024

This paper will investigate the dynamic nature of Latin American Christology, a Christology that cannot be separated from the tenets of liberation theology. I will first offer an overview of the development of Latin American Christology and liberatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Christology: Christian Writings and the Reflections of Theologians)
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2,850 Views
18 Pages

Latin Matchings and Ordered Designs OD(n−1, n, 2n−1)

  • Kai Jin,
  • Taikun Zhu,
  • Zhaoquan Gu and
  • Xiaoming Sun

11 December 2022

This paper revisits a combinatorial structure called the large set of ordered design (LOD). Among others, we introduce a novel structure called Latin matching and prove that a Latin matching of order n leads to an LOD(n−1, n, 2n&minus...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Machine Learning Applied to Intelligent Systems and Data Analytics)
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3 Citations
6,895 Views
10 Pages

30 January 2024

Studies show that diverse representation in children’s literature can positively impact the self-perceptions of marginalized children. To promote feelings of self-worth, children must see their cultural identities authentically portrayed in a m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue African American Children's Literature)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
21 Citations
10,704 Views
13 Pages

24 June 2019

This article introduces the Religions issue on Latin American religiosity exploring sociological perspectives on the Latin American religious situation, from a Latin American perspective. The Secularization Theory proposes “the more modernity,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Religion in Latin America, and among Latinos abroad.)
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3,038 Views
16 Pages

This paper discusses the inflections of Latin proper names in the Old English translation of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica. Whereas most common Latin loans are integrated into the Old English system as far as inflections are concerned, proper n...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corpus-Based Linguistics of Old English)
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5 Citations
6,419 Views
19 Pages

21 December 2021

The term “neoliberalism” has variable and broad meanings. It has even been suggested that we should dispense with the term altogether. However, in this text, I defend that we can find a very powerful concept of neoliberalism in the works...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Religious Studies on Neoliberalism)
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  • Open Access
4,926 Views
13 Pages

Theology in Latin American Context: A Look at Soteriology

  • Daniel Orlando Álvarez and
  • Wilmer Estrada-Carrasquillo

8 October 2021

The purpose of this article is to describe a contextual theology in Latin America in dialogue with its cultures, histories, and peoples. This contextual theology must build from a Latin American context. For this reason, dialogue begins with mestizaj...

(This article belongs to the Section Religions and Theologies)
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  • Open Access
2,184 Views
8 Pages

Trivial and Nontrivial Eigenvectors for Latin Squares in Max-Plus Algebra

  • Fazal Abbas,
  • Mubasher Umer,
  • Umar Hayat and
  • Ikram Ullah

27 May 2022

A square array whose all rows and columns are different permutations of the same length over the same symbol set is known as a Latin square. A Latin square may or may not be symmetric. For classification and enumeration purposes, symmetric, non-symme...

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6 Citations
5,657 Views
23 Pages

24 February 2022

This article aims at investigating some diachronic aspects of the Italian negative system, considering a time span ranging from Old Latin to Modern Italian. Most of the negative polarity phenomena populating the Modern Italian system are consequences...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Double-Negation and (Negative) Polarity Phenomena in the Romance Languages and Their Dialects)
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3 Citations
7,102 Views
28 Pages

The Memetic Evolution of Latin American Architectural Design Culture

  • İlknur Akıner,
  • İbrahim Yitmen,
  • Muhammed Ernur Akıner and
  • Nurdan Akıner

Architecture is an evolutionary field. Through time, it changes and adapts itself according to two things: the environment and the user, which are the touchstones of the concept of culture. Culture changes in long time intervals because of its cumula...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Protection of Buildings with Historic, Architectural or Cultural Value)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,056 Views
24 Pages

Belonging and Its Barriers: A Critical Perspective of Latiné and Mixed-Status Families’ Experiences

  • Steven C. McKay,
  • Alberto Ganis,
  • Leslie Lopez,
  • Jennifer Aimee Martinez and ,
  • Marlen Reyes and
  • Shivani Modha
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 June 2023

This article presents findings from a four-year collaborative research project on immigrant and mixed-status families in Santa Cruz County, California. The project employed a new model of critical community-engaged scholarship called Community Initia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Community-Engaged Research, Volume 2: New Voices, Critical Approaches)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
10,465 Views
19 Pages

29 March 2023

This article presents a mapping of the changing religious landscape of Latin America, specifically focusing on the place of Catholicism therein. It explores how the varying forms of Catholicism in Latin America reflect a reality of mixed modernities,...

(This article belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
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  • Open Access
3,713 Views
12 Pages

8 December 2023

This article presents the case of Guatemalan Pentecostalism as a highly relevant expression of Latin American Pentecostalism that helps to clarify the debate about the syncretic nature of Pentecostalism. We use the Guatemalan case to test the thesis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Syncretism and Pentecostalism in the Global South)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,859 Views
19 Pages

Support for Protests in Latin America: Classifications and the Role of Online Networking

  • Rachel R. Mourão,
  • Magdalena Saldaña,
  • Shannon C. McGregor and
  • Adrian D. Zeh

28 September 2016

In recent years, Latin Americans marched the streets in a wave of protests that swept almost every country in the region. Yet few studies have assessed how Latin Americans support various forms of protest, and how new technologies affect attitudes to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Media and Political Participation)
  • Review
  • Open Access
41 Citations
10,070 Views
17 Pages

Tuberculosis Genetic Epidemiology: A Latin American Perspective

  • Marc Woodman,
  • Ilsa L. Haeusler and
  • Louis Grandjean

16 January 2019

There are an estimated 10 million new cases of tuberculosis worldwide annually, with 282,000 new or relapsed cases each year reported from the Americas. With improvements in genome sequencing technology, it is now possible to study the genetic divers...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Genetic Epidemiology of Complex Diseases in Latin America)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,245 Views
20 Pages

Pseudococyclic Partial Hadamard Matrices over Latin Rectangles

  • Raúl M. Falcón,
  • Víctor Álvarez,
  • María Dolores Frau,
  • Félix Gudiel and
  • María Belén Güemes

6 January 2021

The classical design of cocyclic Hadamard matrices has recently been generalized by means of both the notions of the cocycle of Hadamard matrices over Latin rectangles and the pseudococycle of Hadamard matrices over quasigroups. This paper delves int...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Codes, Designs, Cryptography and Optimization)
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9 Citations
5,802 Views
27 Pages

Sustainable Mobility Challenges in the Latin American Context

  • Vicente Aprigliano,
  • Gabriel Teixeira Barros,
  • Marcos Vinicius Silva Maia Santos,
  • Catalina Toro and ,
  • Gonzalo Rojas,
  • Sebastian Seriani,
  • Marcelino Aurelio Vieira da Silva and
  • Ualison Rébula de Oliveira
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

11 October 2023

Sustainable mobility and transport are topics that have been rising exponentially since the 2000s within the academic community and society. One of the main drivers for this is the intensification of the urbanization processes on a global scale, whic...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
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1,954 Views
14 Pages

29 December 2024

The Latin Cuengh is a kind of language used in China’s minority areas. Due to its complex pronunciation and semantic system, it is difficult to spread widely. To deal with and protect this language further, this paper considers using the curren...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Natural Language Processing: Novel Methods and Applications)
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  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,324 Views
19 Pages

31 October 2022

In this paper, a new combinatorial structure is introduced for image encryption, which has an excellent encryption effect on security and efficiency. An n-transversal in a Latin square has the function of classifying all the matrix’s positions,...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
10,403 Views
22 Pages

State of Art of Cancer Pharmacogenomics in Latin American Populations

  • Andrés López-Cortés,
  • Santiago Guerrero,
  • María Ana Redal,
  • Angel Tito Alvarado and
  • Luis Abel Quiñones

Over the past decades, several studies have shown that tumor-related somatic and germline alterations predicts tumor prognosis, drug response and toxicity. Latin American populations present a vast geno-phenotypic diversity due to the great interethn...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pharmacogenetics and Personalized Medicine 2016)
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19 Pages

8 July 2026

Although a myriad of cross-national studies featuring European countries, Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, the United States, and many other nations around the world support the contention that religiosity is associated with life satisfaction (both positive...

(This article belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,942 Views
16 Pages

10 October 2022

The Laozi has a long and variegated exegetical history inside and outside of China. This history shows the flexibility of a text that is always able to transform and adapt to the specific cultural context and historical period in which it emerges. Du...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Global Laozegetics: Engaging the Multiplicity of Laozi Interpretations and Translations)
  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
11,283 Views
24 Pages

A Comprehensive Analysis of the Worst Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities in Latin America

  • Omar Flor-Unda,
  • Freddy Simbaña,
  • Xavier Larriva-Novo,
  • Ángel Acuña and ,
  • Rolando Tipán and
  • Patricia Acosta-Vargas
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Vulnerabilities in cyber defense in the countries of the Latin American region have favored the activities of cybercriminals from different parts of the world who have carried out a growing number of cyberattacks that affect public and private servic...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,252 Views
18 Pages

Biomechanical Analysis of Latin Dancers’ Lower Limb during Normal Walking

  • Xiangli Gao,
  • Datao Xu,
  • Fengfeng Li,
  • Julien S. Baker and ,
  • Jiao Li and
  • Yaodong Gu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Latin dance involves fundamental walking steps, integral to the dance process. While resembling daily walking, Latin dance demands higher balance levels, necessitating body adjustments by dancers. These adaptations affect dancers’ gait biomecha...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biomechanics, Health, Disease and Rehabilitation)
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  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,666 Views
22 Pages

Latin American Agri-Food Exports, 1994–2019: A Gravity Model Approach

  • María-Isabel Ayuda,
  • Ignacio Belloc and
  • Vicente Pinilla

21 January 2022

This study analyses the causes of the strong growth in the agri-food exports of Latin America between 1994 and 2019. To do this, a series of gravity models are estimated, using as a dependent variable the agri-food exports of 15 Latin American countr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Statistical Methods in Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,979 Views
25 Pages

12 February 2020

The research we will present is based on interviews conducted with the Latin American immigrant population and the indigenous population of the Basque Autonomous Community (BAC hereafter). We seek to identify religious features tracing similarities a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Religion in Latin America, and among Latinos abroad.)
  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,195 Views
10 Pages

Quality Indicators in Pediatric Palliative Care: Considerations for Latin America

  • Gregorio Zuniga-Villanueva,
  • Jorge Alberto Ramos-Guerrero,
  • Monica Osio-Saldaña,
  • Jessica A. Casas and ,
  • Joan Marston and
  • Regina Okhuysen-Cawley
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 March 2021

Pediatric palliative care is a growing field in which the currently available resources are still insufficient to meet the palliative care needs of children worldwide. Specifically, in Latin America, pediatric palliative care services have emerged un...

(This article belongs to the Collection Pediatric Palliative Care Update)
  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
8,262 Views
12 Pages

A Narrative Review of Telemedicine in Latin America during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Genesis Camacho-Leon,
  • Marco Faytong-Haro,
  • Keila Carrera,
  • Marlyn Molero and ,
  • Franhe Melean,
  • Yuliana Reyes,
  • Hans Mautong,
  • Ivonne De La Hoz and
  • Ivan Cherrez-Ojeda
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic greatly impacted traditional health structures, posing new challenges in an unprecedented health crisis. Telemedicine services were implemented in countries with robust digital platforms to reduce hospital attendance...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue COVID-19: Digital Health Response around the World)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
11,680 Views
18 Pages

Most research that has examined the international variation in homicide levels has focused on structural variables, with the suggestion that socio-economic development operates as a cure for violence. In Latin America, development has occurred, but h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
170 Views
14 Pages

27 October 2026

Latin American Liberation Theology emerged as the theological expression of the Catholic Church’s commitment to the poor in the decades following the Second Vatican Council. This article argues that its continuing relevance does not depend on t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Latin American Theology of Liberation in the 21st Century)

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