Homero Martinez (Senior International Health Researcher)
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Organization: RAND Corporation
Micronutrient deficiencies Complementary feeding Diarrhoeal Disease Overweight and obesity in childhood
Areas of Interest: Diarrheal Diseases, HIV/AIDS
Source of Funding: Private, Not-for-Profit organization
Current Projects: Prevention of nutritional anemia in children under 1 year of age Improving Food Security and Nutrition to Promote ART Adherence in Latin America
Publications: Ryan GW, Martínez H, Pelto GH. Methodological issues for eliciting local signs/ symptoms/illnesses terms associated with ARI. Arch Med Res 1996;27:359-365. Martínez H, Habicht J-P. A program to develop culturally and medically sound home-based practices for fluid management of children with acute diarrhoea. Food Nutr Bull 1996;17:117-119. Martínez H, Calva J, Meneses DL, Bernard HR, Pelto PJ. Selection of culturally sound home fluid management of infantile diarrhoea in rural Mexico. Food Nutr Bull 1996;17:120-128. Martínez H, Habicht J-P, Garza C, Mota F. Clinical trial of a rice-powder oral rehydration beverage. Food Nutr Bull 1996;17:129-137. Martínez H, Bojalil R, Guiscafré H. Promotion of oral rehydration therapy comparing a home-made rice-powder gruel and oral rehydration salts. Food Nutr Bull 1996;17:138-144. Rosado JL, López P, Muñoz E, Martínez H, Allen LH. Zinc supplementation reduces morbidity, but neither zinc nor iron supplementation affected growth or body composition of Mexican preschoolers. Am J Clin Nutr, 1997;65:13-19. Martínez H, Suriano K, Ryan GW, Pelto GH. Ethnography of acute respiratory infection in a rural area in Mexico. Salud Publica Mex, 1997;39:207-216. Martínez H, Diez-Urdanivia S, Meneses LM. Alimentación sostenida durante diarrea aguda en niños menores de 5 años. Salud Publica Mex 1998;40:141-149. Bojalil R, Guiscafré H, Martínez H, Espinoza P, Romero G. The quality of private and public primary health care management of children with diarrhoea and acute respiratory infections in Tlaxcala, Mexico. Hlth Pol Plan, 1998;13:323-331. Martínez H, Ryan G, Guiscafré H, Gutiérrez G. An intercultural comparison of home case management of acute diarrhoea in Mexico. Implications for program planners. Arch Med Res, 1998;29:391-400. Orozco M, Martínez H, Reyes H, Guiscafré H. A scale without anthropometric measurements can be used to identify low weight for age in children less than 5 years old. J Nutrition 1998;128:2363-2368. Martínez H, Campero L, Rodríguez G, Rivera J. Acceptability to nutritional supplements by pregnant or lactating women and children under 5 years of age. Salud Publica Mex 1999;41:163-169. Villa S, Guiscafré H, Martínez H, Muñoz O, Gutiérrez G. Seasonal diarrhoeal mortality among Mexican children. Bull WHO 1999;77:375-380 Palafox M, Guiscafré H, Reyes H, Muñoz O, Martínez H. Diagnostic value of tachypnoea in pneumonia defined radiologically. Arch Dis Child 2000; 82: 41-45. Bojalil R, Guiscafré H, Espinoza P, Viniegra L, Martínez H, Palafox M, Gutiérrez G. A clinical training unit for diarrhoea and acute respiratory infection. An intervention to improve the clinical practice of private and public physicians in Mexico. Bull WHO, 1999;77:936-945. Monárrez J, Martínez H. Prevalence of undernutrition in Tarahumara children under 5 years of age in Guachochi, Chihuahua. Salud Publica Mex, 2000;42:8-16. Allen LH, Rosado JL, Casterline JE, Lopez P, Muñoz E, Garcia OP, Martinez H. Lack of hemoglobin response to iron supplementation in anemic Mexican preschoolers with multiple micronutrient deficiencies. Am J Clin Nutr 2000; 71:1485-1494. Guiscafré G, Martínez H, Palafox M, Villa S, Espinoza P, Bojalil R, Gutiérrez G. The impact of a clinical training unit for integrated child health care management in Mexico. Bull WHO, 2001; 79:434-441. Monárrez J, Greiner T, Martínez H. Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in reproductive-age Tarahumara women of northern Mexico. Salud Publica Mex 2001;43:392-401. Martínez H, Castañeda-Limones R, Lechuga Martín del Campo D, Ramos-Hernández RI, Orozco-López M, Rivera-Dommarco J, Mendoza I Magos C. Iodine deficiency and goitrogens are associated with the persistence of endemic goiter in Mexico. Gac Med Mex 2002;138:149-156. Castañeda-Limones R, Lechuga D, Ramos RI, Magos C, Orozco M, Martínez H. Endemic goiter in pregnant women: utility of the simplified classification of thyroid size by palpation. Brit J Obst Gynecol 2002; 109: 1366-72. Guiscafré H, Gutiérrez G, Verver H, Palafox M, López A, Martínez H. Quality improvement of integrated child health care management after in-service training for physicians. Family Practice 2003;20:74-76. Monárrez-Espino J, Martínez H, Martínez-Juárez V. Greiner T. Nutritional status of indigenous children at boarding schools in northern Mexico. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2004;58:532-540. Monárrez-Espino J, Greiner T, Martínez H. A rapid qualitative assessment to design a food basket for young Tarahumara children in Mexico. Scand J Nutr 2004;48:4-12. Jyväkorpi, SK, Martínez H, Pineda A, Pizarro S, Monárrez J. Iron nutrition in schoolchildren of Western Mexico: the effect of iron fortification. Ecol Food Nutrition 2006: 45: 431–447. Ramos-Hernandez RI, Atalah E, Urteaga C, Castañeda R, Orozco M, Avila L, Martinez H. Effect of consuming a dietary supplement on plasma zinc concentration in elderly adults living in Santiago de Chile. Rev Med Chile. 2007;135:1015-1024. Duque-López MX, Flores-Hernández S, Flores-Huerta S, Méndez-Ramírez I, Muñoz S, Turnbull T, Martínez-Andrade G, Ramos RI, González-Unzaga M, Mendoza ME, Martínez H. Prevalence of anemia and deficiency of iron, folic acid and zinc in children under 2 years of age and beneficiaries of the Mexican Social Security Institute. BMC Public Health 2007, 7:345 (30 Nov 2007). http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/7/345 Pineda-Lucatero A, Avila-Jiménez L, Ramos-Hernández RI, Magos C, Martínez H. Iodine deficiency and its association with intelligence quotient in schoolchildren from Colima, Mexico. Public Health Nutrition. 2008;11:690-698. Stovitz SD, Schwimmer JB, Martinez H, Story M. Pediatric Obesity: The unique issues in Latino American male youth. Am J Prev Med. 2008;34:153–160. Turnbull B, Martínez GO, Huérfano N, Ryan GW, Martinez H. A contrast between mothers' assessments of child malnutrition and physical anthropometry in rural Mexico: a mixed methods community study. Accepted for publication. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 2008. Martínez-Salgado H, Casanueva E, Rivera-Dommarco J, Viteri FE, Bourges-Rodríguez H. Iron deficiency and anemia in Mexican children. Preventive and therapeutic interventions. Bol Med Hosp Infant Mex. 2008;65:86-99.
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