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List of works by Maria-Victoria Zunzunegui

A harmonized measure of activities of daily living was a reliable and valid instrument for comparing disability in older people across countries

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Absence of protective ethnic density effect on Ecuadorian migrants' mental health in a recent migration setting: a multilevel analysis.

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Antenatal depressive symptoms among Canadian-born and immigrant women in Quebec: differential exposure and vulnerability to contextual risk factors.

scientific article published on 12 January 2012

Applicability of the MoCA-S test in populations with little education in Colombia

scientific article published on 20 September 2012

Assessing the Validity of Self-Rated Health with the Short Physical Performance Battery: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the International Mobility in Aging Study.

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Association between C-reactive protein and physical performance in older populations: results from the International Mobility in Aging Study (IMIAS).

scientific article published on 28 January 2016

Association between blood pressure and mortality in a Spanish cohort of persons aged 65 years or over: a dynamic model

scientific article published on 13 March 2013

Association between nutritional status and the immune response in HIV + patients under HAART: protocol for a systematic review.

scientific article published on 10 February 2014

Associations of social relationships with consultation for symptoms of depression: a community study of depression in older men and women in Québec.

scientific article published on April 2011

Awareness, treatment, control of hypertension and utilization of health care services following screening in the North-central region of Burkina Faso

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Bem Sex Role Inventory Validation in the International Mobility in Aging Study.

scientific article published on August 2016

Body Mass Index and Long-Term Mortality in an Elderly Mediterranean Population

scientific article published on 31 May 2011

Callers' ability to understand advice received from a telephone health-line service: comparison of self-reported and registered data

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Clients of female sex workers in Gonaives and St-Marc, Haiti characteristics, sexually transmitted infection prevalence and risk factors

scientific article published in October 2008

Clinically relevant depression in old age: An international study with populations from Canada, Latin America and Eastern Europe

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Clinically relevant weakness in diverse populations of older adults participating in the International Mobility in Aging Study.

scientific article published on 11 February 2016

Community unemployment and immigrants' health in Montreal

scientific article published on 13 February 2006

Complementary and alternative health care use in young children with physical disabilities waiting for rehabilitation services in Canada

scientific article published in January 2009

Correlates of wellbeing of spousal and children carers of disabled people over 65 in Spain.

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Cortisol profile and depressive symptoms in older adults residing in Brazil and in Canada.

scientific article published in October 2013

Crisis económica, pobreza e infancia. ¿Qué podemos esperar en el corto y largo plazo para los “niños y niñas de la crisis”? Informe SESPAS 2014

Criterion-based clinical audit to assess quality of obstetrical care in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

scientific article published on 13 June 2011

Depression, Sex and Gender Roles in Older Adult Populations: The International Mobility in Aging Study (IMIAS).

scientific article published on 15 January 2016

Desafíos en la autonomía y la atención a la dependencia de la población mayor. Síntesis

scientific article published on 01 December 2011

Determinants of HIV prevalence amongst female IDU in Madrid

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Determinants of intention to use condoms among clients of female sex workers in Haiti

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Diabetes in older people: Prevalence, incidence and its association with medium- and long-term mortality from all causes

scientific article published on 25 February 2014

Differences in hypertension between informal and formal areas of Ouagadougou, a sub-Saharan African city

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Disability and social ties: comparative findings of the CLESA study

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Discrimination and mental health in Ecuadorian immigrants in Spain

scientific article published on 4 May 2009

Duration of Poverty and Child Health in the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development: Longitudinal Analysis of a Birth Cohort

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Duration of lack of money for basic needs and growth delay in the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development birth cohort

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Early life adversity and C-reactive protein in diverse populations of older adults: a cross-sectional analysis from the International Mobility in Aging Study (IMIAS).

scientific article published on 19 August 2015

Early maternal age at first birth is associated with chronic diseases and poor physical performance in older age: cross-sectional analysis from the International Mobility in Aging Study

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Effect of a facility-based multifaceted intervention on the quality of obstetrical care: a cluster randomized controlled trial in Mali and Senegal.

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Evaluation of the Late-Life Disability Instrument (LLDI) in low-income older populations.

scientific article published on 5 March 2014

Evolución de la discapacidad y la dependencia. Una mirada internacional

scientific article published on 09 December 2011

Experiences of violence across life course and its effects on mobility among participants in the International Mobility in Aging Study

scientific article published on 13 October 2016

Explaining health differences between men and women in later life: a cross-city comparison in Latin America and the Caribbean

scientific article published on 25 November 2008

Factors associated with hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment and control among participants in the International Mobility in Aging Study (IMIAS).

scientific article published on 2 April 2015

Factors influencing duration of exposure with symptoms and costs of occupational asthma

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Financial Fraud, Mental Health, and Quality of Life: A Study on the Population of the City of Madrid, Spain

scientific article published on 06 September 2019

Fistula and other adverse reproductive health outcomes among women victims of conflict-related sexual violence: a population-based cross-sectional study

scientific article published in March 2014

Gender Differences in Lower Extremity Function in Latin American Elders

scientific article published on 01 December 2007

Gender Roles and Physical Function in Older Adults: Cross-Sectional Analysis of the International Mobility in Aging Study (IMIAS).

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Gender differences in cognitive impairment and mobility disability in old age: a cross-sectional study in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

scientific article published in July 2013

Gender differences in depressive symptoms among Spanish elderly

scientific article published in May 1998

Gender differences in depressive symptoms among older adults: a cross-national comparison: the CLESA project

scientific article published on 13 February 2007

Gender differences in four-year incidence of self-reported and performance-based functional disability: The International Mobility in Aging Study

scientific article published on 06 March 2019

Gender differences in mobility disability during young, middle and older age in West African adults.

scientific article published on 15 November 2011

Gender differences in unsafe sexual behavior among young people in urban Mali

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Gender dynamics and sexual norms among youth in Mali in the context of HIV/AIDS prevention

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Health-related quality of life as a main determinant of access to rheumatologic care

scientific article published on 11 January 2013

Heterogeneity in the validity of administrative-based estimates of immunization coverage across health districts in Burkina Faso: implications for measurement, monitoring and planning.

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Illicit drug use and injection practices among drug users on methadone and buprenorphine maintenance treatment in France

scientific article published in November 2003

Immigrant status, antenatal depressive symptoms, and frequency and source of violence: what's the relationship?

scientific article published on 31 July 2012

Inadequate adherence to antiretroviral treatment and prevention in hospital and community sites in Burkina Faso and Mali: a study by the ATARAO group

scientific article published in November 2007

Inequalities in breast and cervical cancer screening among urban Mexican women

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Inequalities in the use of mammography in Spain: effect of caring for disabled family

scientific article published on 14 August 2012

Inequities in postnatal care in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article (publication date: April 2015)

Is complementary and alternative healthcare use associated with better outcomes in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis?

scientific article published in September 2009

Leukocyte Telomere Length and Chronic Conditions in Older Women of Northeast Brazil: A Cross-Sectional Study

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Life course socioeconomic adversity and age at natural menopause in women from Latin America and the Caribbean

article by Maria P. Vélez et al published March 2010 in Menopause

Life course socioeconomic disadvantage and cognitive function among the elderly population of seven capitals in Latin America and the Caribbean

scientific article published in April 2008

Life-Space Assessment scale to assess mobility: validation in Latin American older women and men.

scientific article published on 15 August 2013

Lifecourse Adversity and Telomere Length in Older Women from Northeast Brazil

scientific article published on 8 May 2017

Lifecourse adversity and physical performance across countries among men and women aged 65-74.

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Links Between Maternal Breast-Feeding Duration and Québec Infants’ Health: A Population-Based Study. Are the Effects Different for Poor Children?

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Longevity and relationships with children: the importance of the parental role

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Longitudinal analysis of complementary and alternative health care use in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis

scientific article published in May 2009

Loss to follow-up in a longitudinal study on aging in Spain

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Medical recordkeeping, essential but overlooked aspect of quality of care in resource-limited settings

scientific article published on 13 July 2012

Menopausal status and physical performance in middle aged women: a cross-sectional community-based study in Northeast Brazil

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Mental Health Disorders Among Women Victims of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

scientific article published on 9 October 2014

Mental health in Ecuadorian migrants from a population-based survey: the importance of social determinants and gender roles.

scientific article published on 28 September 2010

Monitoring HIV risk and evaluating interventions among young people in urban West Africa: development and validation of an instrument

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Mother and newborn survival according to point of entry and type of human resources in a maternal referral system in Kayes (Mali)

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Neighbourhood social and built environment factors and falls in community-dwelling canadian older adults: A validation study and exploration of structural confounding

scientific article published on 12 July 2016

Nutritional status of HIV-infected patients during the first year HAART in two West African cohorts.

scientific article published on May 2015

Políticas intersectoriales para abordar el reto del envejecimiento activo. Informe SESPAS 2010

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Poverty and Cumulative Hospitalization in Infancy and Early Childhood in the Quebec Birth Cohort: A Puzzling Pattern of Association

scientific article published on 10 August 2007

Poverty and behavior problems trajectories from 1.5 to 8 years of age: Is the gap widening between poor and non-poor children?

scientific article published on 20 June 2016

Predictors of functional status in older people living at home

scientific article published on 01 March 1999

Prevalence and incidence of hypertension in a population cohort of people aged 65 years or older in Spain

scientific article published in October 2011

Prevalence and risk factors for near and far visual difficulty in Burkina Faso

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Prevalencia de fragilidad en una población urbana de mayores de 65 años y su relación con comorbilidad y discapacidad

scientific article published on 29 January 2010

Protocol for a systematic review of the association between chronic stress during the life course and telomere length

scientific article (publication date: 30 April 2014)

Protocol for a systematic review on inequalities in postnatal care services utilization in low- and middle-income countries

scientific article published on 06 July 2013

Reliability of anthropometric measures in a longitudinal cohort of patients initiating ART in West Africa

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Sarcopenic obesity and physical performance in middle aged women: a cross-sectional study in Northeast Brazil.

scientific article published on 16 January 2016

Screening for dementia in populations with little education

scientific article published on 01 November 2010

Self-rated health and mortality risk in relation to gender and education: a time-dependent covariate analysis

scientific article published on 17 August 2011

Self-rated health and postnatal depressive symptoms among immigrant mothers in Québec

scientific article published in January 2007

Sex differences in the prevalence of frailty in a population aged 75 and older in Spain

scientific article published in December 2008

Social differences associated with the use of psychotropic drugs among men and women aged 65 to 74 years living in the community: the International Mobility in Aging Study (IMIAS).

scientific article published on 20 July 2015

Social networks and depressive symptoms among elderly women and men in Havana, Cuba

scientific article published in March 2008

Social networks and self-rated health in two French-speaking Canadian community dwelling populations over 65

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Social relationships and depression among people 65 years and over living in rural and urban areas of Quebec

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Socio-demographic correlates of late treatment initiation in a cohort of patients starting antiretroviral treatment in Mali, West Africa

scientific article published on 14 June 2011

Socioeconomic status, social relations and domestic violence (DV) against elderly people in Canada, Albania, Colombia and Brazil.

scientific article published on 24 January 2015

Sources of social support associated with health and quality of life: a cross-sectional study among Canadian and Latin American older adults.

scientific article published on 28 June 2016

Systematic review of the association between chronic social stress and telomere length: A life course perspective.

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The components of self-rated health among adults in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

scientific article published on 08 August 2013

The gender gap in mobility: a global cross-sectional study

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The influence of poverty and social support on the perceived health of children born to minority migrant mothers

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The mobility gap between older men and women: the embodiment of gender

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The role of prisons in the HIV epidemic among female injecting drug users

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The validity of the 12-item Bem Sex Role Inventory in older Spanish population: an examination of the androgyny model

scientific article published on 6 June 2014

Training and nutritional components of PMTCT programmes associated with improved intrapartum quality of care in Mali and Senegal

scientific article published on 17 February 2014

Translation, cultural adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the Leganés cognitive test in a low educated elderly Brazilian population

scientific article published in January 2012

Understanding the dimensions of socioeconomic status that influence toddlers' health: unique impact of lack of money for basic needs in Quebec's birth cohort

scientific article published on January 2005

Validation of a short cognitive tool for the screening of dementia in elderly people with low educational level

scientific article published in October 2003

Validity and Reliability of the Short Physical Performance Battery in Two Diverse Older Adult Populations in Quebec and Brazil

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Validity and applicability of a video-based animated tool to assess mobility in elderly Latin American populations

scientific article published on 8 November 2013

Validity and reliability of criterion based clinical audit to assess obstetrical quality of care in West Africa

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Violence in adulthood and mental health: gender and immigrant status.

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Visual difficulty and employment status in the world.

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[Estimate of the prevalence of cognitive impairment in an elderly population of the health center of Senegalese national retirement institution]

scientific article published on 01 March 2012

¿Se pueden reducir los ingresos hospitalarios de pacientes incluidos en Programas de Atención a Domicilio?

scientific article published on 07 May 2012