abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study the return to paid work between the 5th and 12th month after the birth of a child depending on socioeconomic and occupational characteristics of employed mothers. Furthermore, to analyse the differences at the time of returning to work (5th or 12th month) according to these characteristics. METHODS...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： Escribà Agüir V,Más Pons R,Saurel-Cubizolles MJ

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A new index the adequacy of prenatal care utilization (APNCU) index, has been proposed to provide a more accurate and comprehensive measure of antenatal care use than the widely used Kessner index. To better understand the value of the two above mentioned indexes as predictors of preterm delivery, we examine...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： Delgado-Rodríguez M,Gómez Olmedo M,Bueno Cavanillas A,Gálvez Vargas R

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence of the major risk behavior in HIV transmission (syringe sharing and failure to use condoms) and associated factors among drug injectors recruited for a syringe exchange program (PIJ) in the city of Madrid. METHODS:Cross-section study. All the information was obtained in 1993 throu...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： Bravo Portela MJ,Barrio Anta G,de la Fuente de Hoz L,Colomo Gómez C,Royuela Morales L,Estébanez Estébanez P

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of small area variation (SAV) is useful to correlate hospital utilization rates with supply. In this paper the SAV techniques are applied to 26 areas of Catalonia, whose population is covered by the same hospital or group of hospitals in more than 75% of occasions, and hospitalization rates for several su...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： Jané Camacho E,Barba Albós G,Salvador Vilalta X,Salas Ibáñez T,Sánchez Ruiz E,Bustins Poblet M

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To establish the quality of emergency department diagnoses for those patients whose injuries required hospital admission. METHODS:Emergency and hospital discharge diagnostics were retrieved for 339 injured patients. Severity scores (ISS) were calculated using an automatic conversion procedure (ICDMAP). Emerg...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： Seguí-Gómez M,Plasència A,Borrell C

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is obvious how important is the role of the physicians on drugs consumption. On account of their intermediary in the procurement and consumption of medicines, the prescriber is the main focus of manufacturers' promotional activities aiming at increasing sales and profits although these activities often are disguise...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： Barros JA

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to validate a frequency questionnaire for categorically ranking people according to recent physical activity (PA) (previous two weeks), applicable to both sexes. Seven one-day PA records were collected for 30 males and 32 females during two weeks. After, the frequency questionnaire was administered cov...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： Tormo Díaz MJ,Moreno-Sueskun I,Chirlaque López MD,Navarro Sánchez C

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybrid epidemiologic designs combining elements from case-control studies and cohort studies are reviewed. Firstly, the characteristics of selection of both index group and reference group are commented on. The selection of cases required a population-based disease registry. The type of selection of reference group pe...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： Delgado-Rodríguez M,Sillero M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a mathematical model of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in a community. The main object is to analyze the effects of two different strategies of mass vaccination: newborns or adolescents. It appears that adolescents mass vaccination produces in the short-term a bigger effect than in the newborns. Math...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： Torrea Hernández JL,Gaurz Bellido R

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The social organizational climate is a psychological variable which influences the behaviour of the people at work. With the aim of knowing and measuring the work environment in primary health care (Sector 11, Madrid), a transversal descriptive study has been performed on a sample of 350 people. We have used the surve...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： Arce Arnaez MA,Martínez Aguayo C,Sánchez Ludeña ML

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health services utilization has been associated to several socio-demographic factors, as age, gender, or socio-economic status. It has also been associated to the organizational structure and finance of health care, and to health status of the individuals. In the present article main results of studies of health servi...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： Borràs JM

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was carried out with the aim of evaluating the handicapped care quality in a Primary Health Care Centre. This was a two phase evaluation (both of a year): first evaluation with 4 quality indicators and 142 patients; and the reevaluation with 10 quality indicators and 203 patients. We used explicits and norm...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： Espinosa Almendro JM,Burgos Varo ML,López Vargas C,Muñoz Cobos F,Salazar Agulló JA

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The standardized mortality ratio (SMR) is the ratio of the number of deaths observed (D) to the number expected (E), on the basis of the mortality rates of some reference population. Several procedures have been proposed in order to test its significance and to estimate its confidence intervals. In this study, the SMR...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： Regidor E,de Mateo S,Rodríguez C,Gutiérrez-Fisac JL

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work consists on a survey to evaluate the medical resources utilized in a cardiology and respiratory specialized consulting room. Given the heterogeneous patterns of the registered variables, a correspondence factor analysis has been applied, demonstrating its descriptive and explicative adequacy in the pr...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： Sala Barbany J,Riba Lloret MD

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work we discuss several procedures of evaluation of time series models and analyze practical aspects of the management of a data base relative to a health information system devoted to the epidemiological surveillance and the detection of unusual values that could correspond to epidemic events. The analyzed st...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： Murillo C,Sáez M

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To find out the satisfaction's level of the Nazaret (Valencia) Health Center's users; To detect the deficiencies in the areas under study; To find out whether or not there are differences with previous studies in primary care. DESIGN:Transversal study, results evaluation with no equivalent control group. S...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： González Luján L,Costa Alcaraz A,Timoneda Aguilar C,Alfonso Sánchez JL,Cortina Greus P

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the aim preventing future problems of underachievement at school, we studied the possible relationship between learning difficulties and iron deficiency in nursery-school children. To do this, we determined the prevalence of iron deficiency and the prevalence or learning difficulties in the different areas of men...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： Gutiérrez Sigler D,Colomer Revuelta J,Barona C,Momparler P,Colomer Revuelta C

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple-cause mortality data is examined in the Valencian Region. In addition to coding the underlying cause of death (UCD), all causes of death which appeared mentioned on death certificates (MCD) were coded according to preliminary rules established by the Mortality Statistics Office. Specific diseases were selecte...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： García Benavides F,Godoy C,Pérez S,Bolumar F

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main goal of this paper is to offer an introduction to the quantitative methods of meta-analysis used in epidemiology/public health, emphasizing on the most widespread used. We give also a brief reference of the methods to recognize publication bias. The limitations and advantages of the methods commented on are d...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： Delgado Rodríguez M,Sillero Arenas M,Gálvez Vargas R

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this paper is to highlight the fact that the present financial system of the Health Regional Services is constraining their management and development possibilities and thus, the System designed in the General Law of Health (Ley General de Salud); moreover, it is, hindering the development of the Autono...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： Sanfrutos Velázquez N

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study is to compare the prevalence of smoking among young students of the area of La Garrotxa between 1982 and 1986. Two surveys were made, following the same methodology, interviewing two samples of student population 13 to 25 years old. The total number of interviewed students were 1,039 in 198...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： Vallescar Piñana R,Moreno Aguado V,Sarquella Geli J,Vilar Subiras S,Martín Mateo M

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several authors have suggested that incidence density should be used in studying nosocomial infection. We assess several risk factors for hospital infection by two ratios, the incidence density ratio (IDR) and the relative risk (RR), in an historical cohort of 843 patients. The variables analyzed were: operation, its ...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： Delgado Rodríguez M,Lardelli Claret P,López Gigosos R,Oliver Yáñez S,Rodríguez-Contreras Pelayo R,Gálvez Vargas R

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adequate development of immunization programs deals with the problem of obtaining a good vaccination coverage, an essential aspect for the control and eradication of the disease in the population. One way of facing this deals with the implementation of coercion measures. The present paper analyzes Spanish legislat...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： de la Mata Barranco I,de la Mata Barranco NJ

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interest of epidemiology in the environmental effects has grown up in recent years. The present paper discusses the role of environmental epidemiology based on a revision of the medical literature appeared in 1989, and on a review of the strategy in setting up standards. Different aspects of the exposure measure, ...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： Sunyer J

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conditions of death are studied in a sample of oncological patients who died at home. By interviewing people, relatives or not, who assumed the main responsibility for the patient's care, information was gathered about different aspects of the patient's life in its terminal period. In this study, information was c...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： Pons Sureda O,Catalán Fernández G,Avellà Mestre A,Recober Martínez A,Carbonero Malberti JM,Garau Llinás I

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variance estimation of surveys with complex sampling designs (stratified or multistage design) is biased if design effects are not taken into account. In this article we estimate the variance of some of the variables included in the 1986 health interview survey of Barcelona (survey of 2,205 households--clusters--that ...

journal_title：Gaceta sanitaria

authors： Murillo Fort C,Guillén Estany M

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00