Researching the Gendered Silences of Violence in El Salvador

Gang truce for violence prevention, El Salvador

OBJECTIVE To estimate the effects on homicide rates of the gang truce that was brokered in El Salvador in 2012. METHODS Mathematical models based on municipal-level census, crime and gang-intelligence data were used to estimate the effect of the truce on homicide rates. One model estimated the overall effect after accounting for the linear trend and seasonality in the homicide rate. In a mode...

Journalists in El Salvador

The typical journalist in El Salvador is male, in his mid-thirties and holds a university degree in journalism or communication. Of the 250 interviewed journalists, 101 were women, making for a proportion of 40.4 percent of the overall sample. On average, journalists in El Salvador were 32.00 years old (s=9.27); half of the journalists were younger than 28 years. Journalists tend to be well edu...

El Salvador and the Southeastern Frontier ofMesoamerica

Direct and mediated associations between religious coping, spirituality, and youth violence in El Salvador.

OBJECTIVE To examine the direct and mediated relationships between religious coping, spirituality, social developmental factors, and violence among high-risk and gang-involved youth in a high-crime, Latin American country. METHODS Using a community sample of 290 high-risk and gang-involved youth in San Salvador, El Salvador, structural equation modeling was employed to examine the relationshi...

Age at menopause in rural El Salvador.

other treatment. Between January 2006 and September 2008, 342 eligible women were treated withmethotrexate andmisoprostol. Between September 2008 and December 2008, 30 womenwere treated withmethotrexate alone. The 2 groups were similar in age, initial beta-hCG levels, and obstetric history. Beta-hCG level dropped by more than 15% in the first week in 245 (71.6%) women who received methotrexate ...