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2. Country and policy factors influencing the implementation of primary care-based alcohol screening: A comparison of Colombia, Mexico and Peru.
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Kokole, Daša, Mercken, Liesbeth, Anderson, Peter, Mejía-Trujillo, Juliana, Perez-Gomez, Augusto, Bustamante, Ines, Piazza, Marina, Natera Rey, Guillermina, Arroyo, Miriam, Pérez De León, Alejandra, Bautista Aguilar, Natalia, Medina Aguilar, Perla Sonia, Schulte, Bernd, O'Donnell, Amy, de Vries, Hein, and Jané-Llopis, Eva
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HEALTH policy , *COVID-19 , *RESEARCH methodology , *MEDICAL screening , *INTERVIEWING , *QUANTITATIVE research , *PRIMARY health care , *TREATMENT effectiveness , *QUALITATIVE research , *COMPARATIVE studies , *ALCOHOL drinking , *RESEARCH funding , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *POLICY sciences , *DEMOGRAPHY , *COVID-19 pandemic - Abstract
Researchers and practitioners recognise the importance of context when implementing healthcare interventions, but the influence of wider environment is rarely mapped. This paper identifies the country and policy-related factors potentially explaining the country differences in outcomes of an intervention focused on improving detection and management of heavy alcohol use in primary care in Colombia, Mexico and Peru. Qualitative data obtained through interviews, logbooks and document analysis are used to explain quantitative data on number of alcohol screenings and screening providers in each of the countries. Existing alcohol screening standards in Mexico, and policy prioritisation of primary care and consideration of alcohol as a public health issue in Colombia and Mexico positively contributed to the outcome, while the COVID-19 pandemic had a negative impact. In Peru, the context was unsupportive due to a combination of: political instability amongst regional health authorities; lack of focus on strengthening primary care due to the expansion of community mental health centres; alcohol considered as an addiction rather than a public health issue; and the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare. We found that wider environment-related factors interacted with the intervention implemented and can help explain country differences in outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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3. Artificial intelligence, communication, and democracy in Latin America: a review of the cases of Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico.
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Barredo-Ibáñez, Daniel, De-la-Garza-Montemayor, Daniel-Javier, Torres-Toukoumidis, Ángel, and López-López, Paulo-Carlos
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ARTIFICIAL intelligence , *POLITICAL participation , *POLITICAL communication , *POLITICAL campaigns , *CIVIL disobedience , *DEMOCRACY - Abstract
The concept of algorithmic political communication has arisen through the joint development of propaganda and communication theories, as well as the findings of computer science. This is a field that generates results that amplify and extend to political communication, such as microsegmentation or automated diffusion of content; likewise, it produces some adverse effects that hinder citizen participation in the cybersphere. This paper presents a review of works published in three Latin American countries (Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico) with artificial intelligence, communication, and democracy as their constituent elements. The data come from a total of 206 documents, including reports from supranational organisms and associations, and publications in scientific journals indexed in databases such as Google Scholar and Scopus between 2011 and 2021. The selection criterion is based on the total or partial appearance of certain keywords, plus filters by relevance and impact factors. This systematic review is structured based along four axes that explain democracy according to Landman et al. (2009): electoral participation, participation of civil society, media integrity, and impartial administration. The main conclusions indicate that many of the practices in the studied countries are still at an incipient or experimental stage, with algorithmic political communication being used especially during electoral campaigns. Similarly, an increasing resistance from civil society to the influence of social networks is starting to be detected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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