Author's response to reviews Title:Designing and implementing a social protection intervention to enhance TB control: operational evidence from the CRESIPT project in Lima, Peru Authors:

Designing and implementing a socioeconomic intervention to enhance TB control: operational evidence from the CRESIPT project in Peru

BACKGROUND Cash transfers are key interventions in the World Health Organisation's post-2015 global TB policy. However, evidence guiding TB-specific cash transfer implementation is limited. We designed, implemented and refined a novel TB-specific socioeconomic intervention that included cash transfers, which aimed to support TB prevention and cure in resource-constrained shantytowns in Lima, Pe...

Peruvian Mental Health Reform: A Framework for Scaling-up Mental Health Services

Background Mental, neurological, and substance (MNS) use disorders are a leading cause of disability worldwide; specifically in Peru, MNS affect 1 in 5 persons. However, the great majority of people suffering from these disorders do not access care, thereby making necessary the improvement of existing conditions including a major rearranging of current health system structures beyond care deliv...

On Bending Response of Doubly Curved Laminated Composite Shells Using Hybrid Refined Models

This paper presents a static analysis of laminated composite doubly-curved shells using refined kinematic models with polynomial and non-polynomial functions recently introduced in the literature. To be specific, Maclaurin, trigonometric, exponential and zig-zag functions are employed. The employed refined models are based on the equivalent single layer theories. A simply supported shell is sub...

Author's response to reviews Title: Poverty, Social Exclusion and Dental Caries of 12-year-old children: A cross-sectional study in Lima, Peru Authors:

Diabetic neuropathy: Past, present, and future

Background: A sedentary lifestyle and an unhealthy diet have considerably increased the incidence of diabetes mellitus worldwide in recent decades, which has generated a high rate of associated chronic complications. Methods: A narrative review was performed in MEDLINE, EMBASES and SciELO databases, including 162 articles. Results: Diabetic neuropathy (DN) is the most common of these complic...