In high-income countries, social inequalities in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk are well-documented. Although Latin America has a rich history of theory and conceptual discussion regarding social inequalities in health, empirical research has been more limited. In this commentary we summarize recent empirical work on social inequalities in CVD risk in Latin America, and highlight key researc...

Characterizing continents is the business of fools, inviting the charge of essentialization, over-generalization, and caricature of nuanced and complex processes varying across space and over time. Likewise it can attract the criticism that to privilege the national or the regional understates the transnational dimensions of social change, and to take a territorialized view diverts attention fr...

INTRODUCTION Obesity is a pandemic disease in Latin America. The purpose of this review was to analyze the studies exploring food advertising in TV conducted in Latin-American countries and in the USA geared to Hispanics. METHODS An electronic literature search was conducted in the MEDLINE/PubMed, EMBASE, SCIELO, and CINAHL, databases and open access internet, of food advertising directed to ...

This article describes the therapeutic values of project “Remembering Yesterday, Caring in Dementia Care” for people living with dementia. Project was established European Reminiscence Network partners Union, which also operates USA, Canada, Latin America, Australia and India. The programme is based on use creative reminiscence interpersonal interaction work to “[…] rediscover celebrate one’s i...

This research is aimed to determine the differences in racing performances of elite European and Latin American footballers. The was conducted on a sample N = 157 top football players, aged 19 35, who played all 90 minutes first round group stage competition at 2018 World Cup. Respondents were classified into two groups, where I (N 103) consisted teams from Europe, II 54), America. obtained dat...