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January 11, 2021

Monitoring Breastfeeding Indicators in High-Income Countries: Levels, Trends and Challenges

Monitoring indicators of breastfeeding practices is important to protect and evaluate the progress of breastfeeding promotion efforts. However, high-income countries lack standardized methodology to monitor their indicators. Therefore, in this manuscript we aimed to update and summarize nationally representative annual estimates of breastfeeding indicators in high-income countries and to describe methodological issues pertaining to the data sources used. A review was conducted through population

November 24, 2020

Maternal and child health inequalities among migrants: the case of Haiti and the Dominican Republic

One of the most important intraregional migration routes in the Caribbean region is the flow of Haitian migrants to the Dominican Republic. Reasons include political and economic instability, as well as several natural disasters in Haiti. We assessed how migrant status affects coverage and inequalities in maternal and child health interventions by comparing Haitian migrant women and children with Haitians and Dominicans residing in their respective countries. We evaluated coverage using nine ind

November 09, 2020

Patterns in Wealth-related Inequalities in 86 Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Global Evidence on the Emergence of Vaccine Hesitancy

The World Health Organization had classified vaccine hesitancy as a threat to global health. A well-known phenomenon in high-income countries, we hypothesized that vaccine hesitancy might be emerging in low- and middle-income countries as well. Since immunization coverage usually shows social gradients with higher levels among wealthy than among poor individuals, we investigated whether the classical pro-rich pattern of immunization coverage changed over time in low- and middle-income countries.

October 21, 2020

The Lancet Commission on Gender-based violence and Maltreatment of Young People Webinar series

The ICEH researcher Carolina Coll moderated the webinar “Flattening the surge of violence against women and children: COVID-19 and beyond,” which took place virtually on October 20, 2020. The webinar, the first in a series organized by the Lancet Commission on Gender-based violence and Maltreatment of Young People, aimed “to address innovative international policy responses that have emerged in the face of COVID-19 and the broader changes needed to build back better a

October 20, 2020

Consumption of breast milk, formula, and other non-human milk by children aged under two years: analysis of 86 low and middle-income countries

Breastfeeding is associated with reduced child morbidity and mortality, and reduced risk of breast and ovarian cancer among nursing women. Optimal breastfeeding practices are estimated to prevent almost 600,000 child deaths annually from pneumonia and diarrhea alone. However, many factors can influence breastfeeding, being the aggressive market of formula one of the most relevant. This rationale led us to investigate socioeconomic inequalities in the consumption of different types of milk by chi

October 07, 2020

Workshop: Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Latin America

The ICEH researchers Fernando C. Wehrmeister and Luisa Arroyave participated in the workshop “Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Latin America: the role of quality of care research,” which took place virtually on October 6-7, 2020. The workshop, organized by the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and the Academia Nacional de Medicina of Argentina (ANM), had as its objective "to establish the progress made towards achieving quality Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Latin Am

September 08, 2020

Giovanna Gatica-Dominguez hired as a consultant in the Monitoring Nutritional Status & Food Safety Events (MNF) Unit, World Health Organization

Giovanna worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the International Center for Equity in Health from March  2017 to August 2020, leading the nutrition team and working in scientific papers on nutrition and health inequalities. Since mid August, she started as a full-time consultant to support the nutrition monitoring team at the World Health Organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. The nutrition monitoring team, in collaboration with UNICEF-WH-WB the Joint Child Malnutrition Estimat

September 02, 2020

The researcher of the International Center for Equity in Health, Carolina Coll, is awarded the International Training Fellowship of the Wellcome Trust Foundation

The postdoctoral researcher of the International Center for Equity in Health, Carolina Coll, was awarded the International Training Fellowship of the Wellcome Trust Foundation, based in London in the United Kingdom. In the next three years her research proposal aims to investigate the impacts of domestic violence on parenting and child development in the context of low and middle income countries, including Brazil. To answer her research questions Carolina will use data from nationally repr