학술논문
The power of knowledge about dementia in Latin America across health professionals working on aging
Document Type
article
Author
Agustin Ibanez; Daniel Flichtentrei; Eugenia Hesse; Martin Dottori; Ailin Tomio; Andrea Slachevsky; Cecilia M Serrano; Christian Gonzalez‐Billaut; Nilton Custodio; Claudia Miranda; Julian Bustin; Marcelo Cetckovitch; Fernando Torrente; Loreto Olavarria; Tomas Leon; Barbara Costa Beber; Sonia Bruki; Claudia K. Suemoto; Ricardo Nitrini; Bruce L. Miller; Jennifer S. Yokoyama
Source
Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp n/a-n/a (2020)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
2352-8729
Abstract
Abstract Introduction Expert knowledge is critical to fight dementia in inequitable regions like Latin American and Caribbean countries (LACs). However, the opinions of aging experts on public policies’ accessibility and transmission, stigma, diagnostic manuals, data‐sharing platforms, and use of behavioral insights (BIs) are not well known. Methods We investigated opinions among health professionals working on aging in LACs (N = 3365) with regression models including expertise‐related information (public policies, BI), individual differences (work, age, academic degree), and location. Results Experts specified low public policy knowledge (X2 = 41.27, P