Víctor Juan Vera-Ponce

Gaps in Healthcare Seeking for Childhood Diarrhea Among Peruvian Children Under Five Years of Age: Socioeconomic and Clinical Patterns in a National Survey

Background: Childhood diarrhea remains a preventable public health problem, but gaps persist in contact with external care and receipt of effective treatment. Methods: We estimated the prevalence of non-use of external care for recent diarrhea among Peruvian children aged 0–59 mo...

Prognostic Models for Incident Hypertension: Time to Move from Development to Implementation—An Umbrella Review

Hypertension represents a major modifiable cardiovascular risk factor with increasing global prevalence. While numerous prognostic models for incident hypertension have been developed, their clinical implementation remains limited, suggesting a gap between model development and p...

First-child desire, preferred timing of first birth, and preference not to have children among nulliparous women in Peru: evidence from 20 ENDES rounds (2005–2024)

Fertility decline in Latin America suggests that an increasing share of the reduction occurs before the first birth. In Peru, population-level evidence on trends in first-child desire, reproductive indecision, and preferred timing of first birth among nulliparous women remains sc...