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To revise the medical notions and the historic representations about public health in Santander require to contrast the results of researches did by different historians trough of thesis, books and papers published in local universities journals. This paper proposes a history of public health implicate to surpass the academic studies about of politic and medical-scientific personalities to be assumed as a interdisciplinary and new-institutional process orientated to the analysis of the State politics about institutions, employees and patient care according to the impact of illness (endemic and epidemic) and the pressure by socio-economical groups interested in it. In this way, the sources and uses of the concept "Public Health" are explored, and its begin in Santander with sanitary politics about "leprosy colonies" are described, including medical and hospitalarian changes as consequence of the creation of the Ministry of Public Health and the Social Security Institute, and finally, a review is realized about the academic production that health and socio-humanistic professionals from Santanderan universities did related with this theme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyses the traditional speeches and imaginaries on the Revolution of the Communards in Colombia and contrasts it with sociocultural analysis and etiopathological descriptions of two illustrated parish priests and medical physicist of the eighteenth century in New Granada with the purpose of demonstrate how determinant factors of popular revolt of 1781 the tax difficulties to access the herbs, fruits and popular beverages considered medicinal and healthy, and sources of environmental welfare and socio-economic prosperity of the poorest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Tuberculosis is one of the oldest diseases that have affected humans, being in the past the main cause of death in young people and currently, is a serious health public problem in Colombia. Despite there are preventive means to avoid their increase in the community, the tuberculosis incidence has been increasing in our country. So, it is necessary to strengthen the primary and secondary prevention measures that lead to improve the patients' life quality, ensuring the effectiveness and timeliness of the bacteriological diagnosis and cutting the transmission chain from a sick person to a healthy person by searching, early discovery and treatment of the patient. The partnerships among health institutions must be strengthened in order to develop and implement community engagement strategies for the prevention and disease control. Notwithstanding having new insights into the biology and epidemiology of this entity and getting effectively alter the natural history of the disease, it has not been completely eradicated due to multiple reasons, such as drug resistance, the association with HIV AIDS, and migration of people (displaced people), which gives a challenge to achieve the objectives set by public health programs worldwide. The aim of this paper is to obtain a broad view of the disease, from its first appearances up to the present; by reviewing some aspects of the pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of it. Methodology: Some researches were performed in databases and search engines from the period 1978 to 2014. 128 articles were selected for this. Conclusions: The spread of TB, it is not more than a reflection of the sharp deterioration in the living conditions of millions of people worldwide and it keeps on being an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, which it exacerbated in recent years by several factors, including infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the multidrug resistance emergence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the main characteristics of the demand for medical consultations in the department of Santander. To do this, performing a descriptive analysis of the characteristics of the population that demands the service department as affiliation, gender, age, body others. The data used for the study come primarily from two sources: the individual record or health services (RIPS) and population projections from 2005 to 2020, departmental and municipal total, by sex and five year age groups from the National Bureau of Statistics - DANE. The unit of analysis in this study was the records and not the population, the available information does not allow to focus on the people served. The results indicate a need to incorporate criteria regarding gender, children, and senior citizens in the design of public health policies. The results show that it is necessary to incorporate criteria regarding gender, children, and senior citizens in the design of public health policies. Similarly, it is important to consider the questions of financing of the health network of Santander, considering that in recent years, the pattern of medical consultation indicate greater pressure on the use of the resources allocated in the sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sexual desire increases significantly during adolescence, in consequence, many male and female adolescents start sexual intercourse before getting 18 years old. A search in Pubmed and Scholar Google was done. Key words used were adolescents, students, sexual behavior and Colombia. Papers which reported the prevalence of sexual intercourse among Colombian adolescents during the last decade (1999-2008) were reviewed. The prevalence of sexual intercourse ranged between 7.7% and 58.0%, mean of 27.2%. Being older, male, higher academic grade, and legal or illegal substance use was related to a history of sexual intercourse. Adolescents reported health risk behavior such as inconsistent condom use, sexual intercourse after substance use and sexual intercourse with a recently known partner, there were some gender differences. The findings have relevance for sexual and reproductive public health. Comprehensive programmes should be designed to promote a healthy sexual development among Colombian adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Medical record is a document with particular characteristics that requires a different documental management, has different uses and users that use it with different interest, to preserve its usefulness and in order to comply the legal normativity from each country it is necessary to change the traditional way it have been build (through manuscript files addition) and apply new technologies of the information and communication (TIC). This article presents the main different advantages and disadvantages of the Computarized Medical Records (CMR) compared with the traditional paper MR, according to it's different uses and users as well as the required conditions to make each one of it an efficient document. Colombian and Spain cases were analyzed, comparing normative conditions and technological development, with the proposal of obtaining a comparative parameter that allow us to determine future trends in the integration of the models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the prevalence of depressive symptoms in perimenopausal women that work as primary or high school level teachers. The objective of this paper is to uncover symptoms of depression that are prevalent in women between the ages of 45 to 55 that live in the city of Bucaramanga, Colombia. 581 participants were surveyed, with a portion of them having taken hormone therapy while half had already at menopause. Several factors were considered, including age, marital status, hormone therapy treatments, and sexual life. The research concludes that the risk level for teachers developing depression is the same to that of the general population.