Dansereau, Emily http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8075-239X
Schaefer, Alexandra
Hernández, Bernardo
Nelson, Jennifer
Palmisano, Erin
Ríos-Zertuche, Diego
Woldeab, Alex
Zúñiga, Maria Paola
Iriarte, Emma Margarita
Mokdad, Ali H.
El Bcheraoui, Charbel
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo
Carlos Slim Foundation
Article History
Received: 12 July 2017
Accepted: 6 October 2017
First Online: 17 October 2017
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was determined to not meet the definition of “research,” and was therefore exempted from receiving Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval by the IRB at the University of Washington and partnering data collection agency, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur. Informed consent was obtained verbally from all focus group participants. In order to avoid collecting participants’ names and other identifying information, there was no written consent process.
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