[Implementation of quality of care indicators for third-level public hospitals in Mexico].

abstract：:The Global Smokefree Partnership has recently prepared a map of smokefree campaigns and policies around the world. It focuses primarily on countries that are parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, but other countries were included. The smokefree status of 172 countries was mapped. Of these countri...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Griffith G,Welch C,Cardone A,Valdemoro A,Jo C

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the independent effect of poor school performance and tobacco persistence using a prospective population study of students who remained on school grounds during the follow-up period. Two measurements were taken over a period of three years. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A cohort study conducted within sch...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Anaya-Ocampo R,Arillo-Santillán E,Sánchez-Zamorano LM,Lazcano-Ponce E

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes the stages in the building of the general hospitals of 144 beds included in the Health Services Reconstruction and Reordering Program. The Program is being carried out by the Health Ministry in the metropolitan area of Mexico City, emphasizing the reordering sense of the activities developed to ...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Soberón G,Ruíz de Chávez M,Ortega-Lomelín R,Martínez-Narváez G,Ruíz-Ibarra I

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the patterns of antimicrobial resistance of organisms isolated from urine cultures at a teaching oncological hospital for adult patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS:All strains obtained from urine cultures from 1998 to 2005 were included. Mean susceptibilities were obtained for each antimicrobial teste...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Cornejo-Juárez P,Velásquez-Acosta C,Sandoval S,Gordillo P,Volkow-Fernández P

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the social construction of stigma and discrimination processes associated with HIV/AIDS and people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA), based on the perceptions of health care providers in three states of the Mexican Republic. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Qualitative and quantitative description. Observation at n...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Infante C,Zarco A,Cuadra SM,Morrison K,Caballero M,Bronfman M,Magis C

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-communicable diseases are at the center of international consultation and there's a general agreement on saying that several issues need to be solved before implementing prevention strategies and intervention programs. A sound knowledge of all the factors involved in the epidemic spread of a disease is the first t...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： de Hoyos-Parra R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Understand what Mexican key stakeholders think about the judicialization of the right to health in Mexico. MATERIALS AND METHODS:30 semi-structured interviews were conducted at different settings in Mexico City with representatives of the judiciary, legislative power, Health Sector (HS), pharmaceutical indus...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Cobo-Armijo F,Charvel S,Pelcastre-Villafuerte BE

更新日期：2020-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the price elasticity of the demand for cigarettes in Mexico based on data sources and a methodology different from the ones used in previous studies on the topic. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Quarterly time series of consumption, income and price for the time period 1994 to 2005 were used. A long-run dem...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Olivera-Chávez RI,Cermeño-Bazán R,de Miera-Juárez BS,Jiménez-Ruiz JA,Reynales-Shigematsu LM

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to estimate the prevalence of mental disorders in epidemiologic studies in the community, our department has designed the Modified Psychiatric Interview (MPI), a semi-structured interview derived from the Standardized Psychiatric Interview by Goldberg et al. This instrument confirms the presence of "psychiatr...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Sánchez-Báez JJ,Gómez-Espinosa M,Padilla-Galina P

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a retrospective study on teenagers from 14 to 17 years of age based on data from the National Survey on Drug Addiction conducted in 1988. The aim of this study was to discover the factors linked to drug consumption among Mexican urban teenagers. This paper reports prevalence rates (PR), raw and adjusted by gen...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Nazar-Beutelspacher A,Tapia-Conyer R,Villa-Romero A,León-Alvarez G,Medina-Mora ME,Salvatierra-Izaba B

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify the medical complications in a cohort of HIV-infected, pregnant women and to determine the risk of having the virus in the development of these complications. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A cohort study of 44 HIV-infected and 88 seronegative pregnant women was performed. Pregnancy was followed and perina...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Figueroa-Damián R

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop an automated model for the operational regionalization needed in the planning of the health service networks proposed by the new Mexican health care model (Modelo Integrador de Servicios de Salud MIDAS). MATERIAL AND METHODS:Using available data for México during 2005 and 2007, a geospatial model ...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Hernández-Ávila JE,Santos-Luna R,Palacio-Mejía LS,Salgado-Salgado AL,Ríos-Salgado VH,Rodríguez-López MH,Sepúlveda-Amor J

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determinate the prevalence of hearing loss (HL) and visual impairment (VI) among adult population from Tlaxcala, Mexico. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A populationbased cross-sectional study comprising persons 50 years and older was conducted in 2013. Self-reported HL was measured using the Hearing Impairment Inv...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Graue-Hernández EO,Gómez-Dantés H,Romero-Martínez M,Bravo G,Arrieta-Camacho J,Jiménez-Corona A

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing country governments and aid agencies face difficult decisions on how best to allocate their finite resources. Investments in many different sectors -including education, water and sanitation, transportation, and health- can all reap social and economic benefits. This report focuses specifically on the healt...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Yamey G,Beyeler N,Wadge H,Jamison D

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the current health care reform issues in Canada. The provincial health insurance plans of the 1960s and 1970s had the untoward effects of limiting the federal government's clout for cost control and of promoting a system centered on inpatient and medical care. Recently, several provincial commissio...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Baris E

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the health conditions in Dominican Republic and the characteristics of the Dominican health system, including its structure and coverage, its financial sources, the health expenditure, the physical, material and human resources available, the stewardship functions developed by the Ministry of Publ...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Rathe M,Moliné A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To introduce the Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio (HSMR) as an alternative to assess the quality of hospital care in Mexico. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Data-sets of public hospital discharges were used as source of information. The analyses were based in a logistic model to estimate the risk of hospital death...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Puentes-Rosas E,Rincón K,Garrido-Latorre F

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the willingness to pay of parents of teenage daughters for a vaccine against human papillomavirus in the Maule Region, Chile. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A sample of 386 parents with daughters between 12 and 18 years old, representing the five largest cities of the Region of Maule, socioeconomically s...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Cerda AA,García LY,Albornoz DV

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the prevalence of acute diarrheal diseases (ADD) during the two weeks previous to the interview among children <5 years of age and to describe alarm signs and feeding practices of parents and caregivers (PCG) during children's ADD. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Analysis of data from the National Health a...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Ferreira-Guerrero E,Mongua-Rodríguez N,Díaz-Ortega JL,Delgado-Sánchez G,Báez-Saldaña R,Cruz-Hervert LP,Chilián-Herrera OL,Mendoza-Alvarado LR,García-García L

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the injuries for "E" code in 10191 subjects attending four general hospitals of Mexico City. Seventy-nine per cent of them were males and 29.1 per cent were females. THe highest utilization rate of the care unit was during weekends. Only 14 per cent of the study population were admitted to the hospital. Peop...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Meneses-González F,Rea R,Ruíz-Matus C,Hernández-Avila M

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effects of maternal overweight and obesity as risk factors for overweight and obesity in Mexican school-age children (5 to 11 years old) who participated in the National Nutrition Survey 1999 (NNS-99). MATERIAL AND METHODS:Information obtained by the NNS-99 was used to evaluate the relationship...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Flores M,Carrión C,Barquera S

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Detection of high-risk human papillomavirus types (HPV) infection is an important tool in the screening of cervical cancer and triage of cytological abnormalities. The different techniques for detection of this cancer need to be contrasted and validated for use in population screening. MATERIAL AND METHODS:C...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Cañadas MP,Lloveras B,Lorincz A,Ejarque M,Font R,Bosch FX,de Sanjosé S

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chagas disease in the state of Jalisco, Mexico was described for the first time in 1967; however, knowledge on the disease remains in a slow process. Between 1967 and 2006, the disease was described in its acute and chronic forms. The vector species have been identified, and the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi has been iso...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Lozano-Kasten F,Magallón-Gastélum E,Soto-Gutiérrez M,Kasten-Monges M,Bosseno MF,Brenière SF

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To improve the procedures for cardiovascular health care in Mexico it is necessary to be able to perform accurate measurements of the cardiovascular parameters with appropriate equipment and to count with standard values for the Mexican population at the primary health level. Cardiac frequency (CF), systolic arterial ...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Brust-Carmona H,Zarco J,Vidrio-Amor H,Calderón-Becerra J,Juárez-Cortez M,Chavarín G

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate whether the presence of polymorphisms of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma PPARγ (Pro 1 2Ala) and PPARGC1B (Ala203Pro) modifies the association between the inorganic arsenic (iAs) methylation capacity and breast cancer (BC). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Mexican women were interviewed, and...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Pineda-Belmontes CP,Hernández-Ramírez RU,Hernández-Alcaraz C,Cebrián ME,López-Carrillo L

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate energy, nutrient intake and diet adequacy in school-aged children based on the Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey 2006 (ENSANUT 2006). MATERIAL AND METHODS:Food intake data from food frequency questionnaires was analyzed for 8 716 children aged 5 to 11 years. Energy and nutrients intake...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Flores M,Macías N,Rivera M,Barquera S,Hernández L,García-Guerra A,Rivera JA

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is the first of two parts of a research report on the evolution and magnitude of poverty in Mexico. Herein are presented the methodologies used in both parts and the evolution of poverty. The Poverty Line methodology (PL), in its Standard Basket of Essential Satisfiers version, is succinctly explained. Tw...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Boltvinik J

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The social nature of AIDS and its transmission in the context of social relations that are intimate and resistant to social control, justify assigning the social sciences a significant role in fighting AIDS. The social sciences should be involved in conceptualizing, understanding, and modifying the processes favoring...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Bronfman M

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Institutions such as World Health Organization and United Nations have considered the necessity to establish programs to control and preserve our environment. From the beginning, industrial development has polluted the air, water and soil, in some cases irreversibly affecting the ecosystems. Rampant use of natural res...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Velasco-Suárez M

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the risk for alcohol abuse among individuals with a positive family history of alcohol abuse (FH+). MATERIAL AND METHODS:The study population was a sample (n = 8,890) drawn from a 1988 national survey on addictions in Mexico City's urban population. Data analysis consisted of frequency and associat...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Natera-Rey G,Borges G,Medina-Mora Icaza ME,Solís-Rojas L,Tiburcio-Sainz M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00