Discourses and polarities concerning health promotion in the Brazilian health system.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the health, labor and social factors which contribute to quitting work in two transnational electronic parts factories in Tijuana, Mexico. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A cohort study of 725 women employed either at a Japanese or an American electronic parts factory in Tijuana was performed between January...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Guendelman S,Samuels S,Ramírez-Zetina M

更新日期：1999-07-01 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 describe de prevalence of iron deficiency (ID) and anemia in a sample of Mexican elderly population from the National Health and Nutrition Survey (Ensanut) 2012. MATERIALS AND METHODS:1 920 subjects ≥60 years of age were included. Hemoglobin, serum concentrations of ferritin and CRP were measured. The ris...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Contreras-Manzano A,Cruz Vde L,Villalpando S,Rebollar R,Shamah-Levy T

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The Mesoamerican Public Health Institute (IMSP) was constituted in 2009 as the technical organ of the Mesoamerican Public Health System (SMSP) and the Virtual Network of Academic Institutions. Health system capacity strengthening needs and preliminary training results were assessed in the first phase. MATERI...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： González-Block MA,Molina-Rodríguez JF,Becerril V,Vargas E,Consejo Directivo del IMSP.

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents some ideas on the relation between personal income and the quantity and quality of education and health. It is suggested that the high degree of inequality in income in Mexico could be attributed to ancestral differences in educative and health care opportunities. In the short run, the desirable de...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Aspe P,Beristáin J

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The right to health and its operational form, as an organized social response to health: the right to health protection, are the mainstay for the global push towards universal health coverage. The path to achieve this goal is particular to each country and relates to the baseline and specific context in relation to wh...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Fajardo-Dolci G,Gutiérrez JP,García-Saisó S

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To keep record of the knowledge and use of information of the different food labels on industrialized products in Mexico. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We administered a semi-structured survey-developed by research¬ers free of conflict interestin a subsample of the National Health and Nutrition Survey, 2016. This su...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Tolentino-Mayo L,Rincón-Gallardo Patiño S,Bahena-Espina L,Ríos V,Barquera S

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe knowledge,attitudes and practices in oral health of parents and caregivers. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A total of 333 parents and eight caregivers in children's homes in Colombia in 2010 completed questionnaires and participated in focus group interviews.The data was analyzed for frequency using the χ...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： González Martínez F,Sierra Barrios CC,Morales Salinas LE

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical cancer is a major public health problem, as it is the second most common cancer in women world-wide after breast cancer. About 80% of the half a million cases estimated to occur annually in the world, occur in developing countries. The epidemiological evidence linking human papillomavirus (HPV) to cervical ca...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Muñoz N,Bosch FX

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the Strategy Results Cycle (SRC), a model that approaches planning as an ongoing cycle of seven phases that continually responds and adapts to existing evidence. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Reliable sources were used for the preparation of databases and expenditure-costing data for resources needs anal...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Rodríguez-García R,Rosenberg H

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the optimum size for hemodialysis units to maximize production given capital constraints. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A national study in Mexico was conducted in 2009. Three possible methods for estimating a units optimum size were analyzed: hemodialysis services production under monopolistic market, u...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Avila-Palomares P,López-Cervantes M,Durán-Arenas L

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study presents findings from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) regarding current cigarette smoking and other tobacco epidemic indicators. MATERIAL AND METHODS:The GYTS used a two-stage cluster sample survey to generate representative samples of students aged 12 to 15 years old enrolled in public, p...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Valdés-Salgado R,Thrasher J,Sánchez-Zamorano LM,Lazcano-Ponce E,Reynales-Shigematsu LM,Meneses-González F,Hernández-Avila M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among primary health care programs, one of those that has the highest benefit/cost ratio is measles immunization. An estimate of cases, complicated cases and deaths that could have occurred if such immunization program would not have been run, and costs of medical care (hospitalization, physician's visits, medical tre...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Cárdenas Ayala VM,Ruiz Matus C,Cabrera Coello L,Montesano Castellanos R,Garrido Lozada MT,Olvera Castillo R,Díaz Ortega JL

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To carry out estimations of the burden of disease for 129 causes in order to identify health priorities in the different geographic regions of the country and to present comparative data between 1995 and 2000. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Indicators such as disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and disability adjus...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Rodríguez-Abrego G,Escobedo de la Peña J,Zurita B,Ramírez Tde J

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to describe the ways in which Mexican adolescents and adults with intellectual disability exercise autonomy. Two focus groups were carried out with family members who are the legal guardians of people with intellectual disability who have received independent living training at the Center for Integral ...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Allen-Leigh B,Katz G,Rangel-Eudave G,Lazcano-Ponce E

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the most recent advances in the field of contraception and family planning. The author discusses the evolution of hormonal contraception--reduction in dosage, new routes of administration, new progestogens, counseling and patient selection, improved hormonal contraceptives--intrauterine contracept...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Faúndes A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main objective of a hospital-acquired infections control program is to decrease the risk of acquisition and the morbidity and costs associated. The organization of a team with technical and humanistic leadership is essential. Every infection control program must also develop strategies that allow: a) identificatio...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Navarrete-Navarro S,Rangel-Frausto MS

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conceptual and methodological basis of the National Health Survey II (NHS-II) are described and recent advances in multidisciplinary public health research in Mexico, both conceptual and methodological, are synthesized. The design of the NHS-II concentrated on the study of the access, quality of care and health at...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors：

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This paper aims at describing the behavior of tobacco's demand in Mexico across four one-year periods: 1992, 1994, 1996, and 1998, as well as to estimate a cigarette demand function. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A cross-sectional study with longitudinal analysis was conducted. Information sources were the Encuesta N...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Sesma-Vázquez S,Campuzano-Rincón JC,Carreón-Rodríguez VG,Knaul F,López-Antuñano FJ,Hernández-Avila M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify the frequency and factors associated with therapy noncompliance in type-2 diabetes mellitus patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A cross-sectional study was carried out in 79 patients with type-2 diabetes mellitus seen in major hospitals of Mexico City. Patients were visited at home, from March 1998 to...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Hernández-Ronquillo L,Téllez-Zenteno JF,Garduño-Espinosa J,González-Acevez E

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

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 identify the maternal, work, and health services factors associated with a short duration of breast-feeding in working mothers. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A cross-sectional study was carried out between November 1998 and March 1999, among 265 mothers medically insured by (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, I...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Navarro-Estrella M,Duque-López MX,Trejo y Pérez JA

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the methods and analyses of the 1999 National Nutrition Survey (NNS-99). MATERIAL AND METHODS:The 1999 National Nutrition Survey (NNS-99) is a probabilistic survey with nationwide representativity. The NNS-99 included four regions and urban and rural areas of Mexico. The last sampling units were ...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Resano-Pérez E,Méndez-Ramírez I,Shamah-Levy T,Rivera JA,Sepúlveda-Amor J

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Evaluate the relationships between AgNORs polymorphisms and squamous intraepithelial lesions (SIL) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) with HPV infection. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A study was carried out on sixty women from the state of Guerrero, Mexico. HPV detection was performed by PCR. AgNORs were identified ...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Alarcón-Romero Ldel C,Illades-Aguiar B,Flores-Alfaro E,Terán-Porcayo MA,Antonio-Véjar V,Reyes-Maldonado E

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective::We aimed to explore organ donation and transplantation in Mexico from the point of view of transplantation health professionals. Materials and methods::A qualitative study was carried out. Twenty six organ transplantation health professionals from seven states of Mexico participated. Semi-structured face-to...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Hernández-Ibarra LE,Mercado-Martínez FJ,Martínez-Castañeda A

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:In 2014 the Mexican government implemented taxes to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and nonessential energy-dense foods. In this manuscript, we analyze the scientific evidence linking the consumption of these products to chronic diseases, and summarize the studies that have evaluated the observed a...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Barrientos-Gutiérrez T,Colchero MA,Sánchez-Romero LM,Batis C,Rivera-Dommarco J

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To establish the current situation of antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic consumption in Mexican hospitals. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Antimicrobial susceptibility data from blood and urine isolates were collected. Defined daily dose (DDD) of antibiotic consumption/100 occupied beds (OBD) was calculated. RES...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Miranda-Novales MG,Flores-Moreno K,López-Vidal Y,Rodríguez-Álvarez M,Solórzano-Santos F,Soto-Hernández JL,Ponce de León-Rosales S,UNCAR Network*.

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report the organization and performance of the IMSS-Solidaridad Program of Mexico is described. This program is managed by the Mexican Institute for Social Security, which services 10.5 million inhabitants of the rural underserved areas, with federal government resources in 18 states. This study compares the s...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Velázquez-Díaz G

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the validity of a battery of functional capacity tests in community-living elderly Canadians. MATERIAL AND METHODS: DESIGN:cross-sectional study. STUDY POPULATION:baseline data from 1793 men and women aged 74.4 +/- 4.1 participating in the NuAge longitudinal study were collected from December 200...

journal_title：Salud publica de Mexico

authors： Avila-Funes JA,Gray-Donald K,Payette H

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00