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This essay was born from presenting a theoretical-methodological proposal to analyze invisible school violence from the perspective of collective health. From this perspective, the analysis of this violence embodied in the lives of boys and girls allows us to know how it has been incorporated into societies as a form of education. The socio-historical determination of invisible school violence will enable us to unravel the general, particular, and singular dimensions of the social process that involves it. The categories of social reproduction, the health-illness process, ways of going through life, and the subjective and social dimensions of said process are explored. This is done to broaden the view and move away from the biomedical perspective that finds actions to solve the problems of illness in the physical body, but not for those processes that cause suffering, restrict autonomy, and perpetuate domination, inequalities, and violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The essay indicates the main antecedents for the organization of the health system in Chile that is presently in force, with transformations following the country's coup d'état 50 years ago. It describes the recent debate over, and resistance to, the transformation and strengthening of the public system, with regard to controlling the health industry in the post-dictatorship, from the point of view of the sectors of economic power as well as the important viewpoint of the population, which in the face of a discouraged public health sector, seems to overlook the collective meaning of health care and the role of a state guarantor and protector of minimum social rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given the new federal proposal of the MAS-Bienestar national health system, in the state of Sonora, at the end of 2023, the implementation of the National Public Health Service (SNSP, by its acronym in Spanish) and its main subcomponents began, both at the central and district levels. To carry it out, three stages were defined: establishment, implementation and operation. As of the date of this publication, the first two stages are 100% completed and the third and final stage are 85% complete. This article details the actions carried out and the achievements obtained in each of the three stages and also looks ahead to the future of the SNSP, which in the coming months will be an operational reality in Sonora. Finally, the process of concluding the transfer of medical care services to the new decentralized public body IMSS-BIENESTAR health services is noted. With the above, in the entity it will now be possible to attend and begin operations in the main components of the new MAS-Bienestar health system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective. To review the importance of the essential public health functions (EPHF), rescuing their role for the exercise of stewardship in health and the response of the state to preserve the health and well-being of the entire population. Materials and methods. The different versions of the EPHF initially published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) version of 2000 were reviewed, to finally present the new version of the EPHF launched by PAHO in December 2020. Results. The different versions of the EPHF have been aimed at positioning the importance of public health considering contexts of sectoral reforms. For two decades, EPHFs in the Region of the Americas have been part of national debates, and their measurement has led to significant improvements in health systems. The revamped version of the EPHF seeks to give countries greater strength to face new public health challenges. Conclusions. EPHFs have a transcendental role in positioning public health as a duty of the state at the central, state, and local level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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El objetivo del presente artículo es realizar una aproximación a la situación de la osteopatía pediátrica en España y proponer la creación de una mesa de diálogo inter y multidisciplinar que permita avanzar en su regulación y ordenación profesional. Actualmente no existe un estándar académico que regule este tipo de formación en nuestro país. La ausencia de regulación predispone a que haya una gran variedad de perfiles profesionales, con formaciones académicas dispares, practicando la osteopatía. Este hecho puede tener implicaciones sobre la seguridad y calidad de la atención que reciben los/las pacientes/usuarios/as, principalmente los grupos vulnerables y dependientes de la población, como son los/las menores de edad. La creación de una mesa de diálogo también permitiría clarificar la práctica profesional de la osteopatía pediátrica y cuál es su bien interno para con la sociedad española. El papel de la bioética puede ser importante a la hora de integrar diferentes voces.

Con el objetivo de describir las tasas de incidencia por cada 100 000 habitantes de los casos de enfermedades transmitidas por alimentos (ETA) durante el periodo 2015-2020 en Ecuador se realizó un análisis secundario de los registros de vigilancia epidemiológica y de las proyecciones poblacionales del Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos. Se reportaron 113 695 casos con una incidencia superior a los 100 casos por cada 100 000 habitantes (2015-2019). En el 2020 los registros son considerablemente inferiores a los reportes de años anteriores. La mayoría de los casos se reportaron como «otras intoxicaciones alimentarias». Las tasas de incidencia de ETA más altas se observaron en la región amazónica. En general existe una marcada variabilidad anual en la incidencia de las ETA según las regiones geográficas del Ecuador. En conclusión, las ETA representan un problema de salud pública en el Ecuador. Se deben diseñar estrategias preventivas integrales con especial énfasis en la región amazónica.

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El desarrollo de la salud pública en América Latina durante el siglo XX combinó, desde el principio, el marco de la medicina social sobre los orígenes sociales, políticos y ambientales de la enfermedad con los aportes del trabajo de campo de la antropología médica. A pesar de la hegemonía del modelo médico, el surgimiento del marco de la medicina preventiva legitimó aún más la participación de los científicos sociales en el estudio de la multicausalidad de la enfermedad. Sin embargo, las limitaciones que trajo consigo la falta de contextualización histórica y política del modelo de la medicina preventiva dieron paso al movimiento latinoamericano de medicina social, basado en el materialismo histórico, y al desarrollo tanto de la epidemiología crítica como de la antropología médica crítica.

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This study examines the limits of professional practice in the field of comprehensive esthetics and related areas in Ecuador. A mixed methodological approach was used, including document analysis, practitioner surveys and expert interviews. The central objective was to identify and examine discrepancies between existing regulation and actual practice, along with their implications for patient health and safety. The findings revealed confusion in terminology, diversity in professional training, and lack of regulatory awareness. In addition, it was observed that non-medical professionals perform invasive procedures, despite being prohibited by Ecuadorian law. In conclusion, it is necessary to review and strengthen regulation, as well as improve professional training, to ensure safe and ethical practice in the field of comprehensive esthetics in Ecuador. The health of patients should be the main priority, and this will only be achieved through strict compliance with regulations and the promotion of quality education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Health information is a fundamental resource to carry out healthy lifestyles. Web 2.0 has favoured the emergence of multiple online sources of health information. Among them, social networks stand out as a priority information channel for the youngest. An internationalized tool to generally measure digital literacy in self-perceived health has been the e-HEALS scale, which has been transferred and tested in diverse sociocultural and population contexts. The present work aims to adapt the self-administered e-HEALS scale to measure digital literacy in self-perceived health to the scenario of social networks, taking into account its prevalence as an information channel for the youngest people. As a result, the snHEALS is presented, a self-administered scale to measure self-perceived health literacy in social networks. To do this, through a stratified sample of 1004 cases of young people (18-30 years) in Spain, a principal components analysis is first applied; second, a confirmatory factor analysis; and, finally, factorial invariance by sex. The results show that the proposed scale, the snHEALS, is a valid and reliable tool to measure health literacy competence through social networks. From there, it provides solid bases for future research (in other sociotechnological and population contexts) and practices and detection of needs in the field of public health programs that target the young population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mental health has been identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a matter of concern internationally. In Colombia, specifically, the importance of mental health care, including the phenomenon of suicide, has been highlighted. In this regard, policymakers have sought alternatives to address or mitigate this issue. In this context, research becomes relevant regarding the development of tools that facilitate decision-making for governmental authorities, for example, through the formulation of forecasting models that enable the identification of trends and patterns of behaviour of suicide attempts. The objective of this study is to formulate and select a regional forecasting model for suicide attempts by means of predictive analytics techniques. This paper contributes to fill the gap in the case of suicide attempts in the city of Medellín, Colombia. The fitting, validation and comparison of three different time series models, under minimum forecast error criteria is presented. The compared models include parametric, Holt-Winters and Box-Jenkins approximations; For the analysed data, the parametric model with cubic, seasonal and ARMA(0.5) components is the one with the lowest forecast error. This model manages to capture the trends of the phenomenon, with a low level of error for the projection for nearby trends, but it does not manage to respond to sudden changes in structure such as those that occurred in the COVID-19 pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to describe the incidence rates per 100 000 population of foodborne disease (FBD) cases during the period 2015-2020 in Ecuador, we carried out a secondary analysis of epidemiological surveillance records and population projections from the National Institute of Statistics and Census. A total of 113,695 cases were reported with an incidence of more than 100 cases per 100 000 population (2015-2019). In 2020, the records are considerably lower than those reported in previous years. Most cases were reported as "other food poisoning". The highest incidence rates of FBD were found in the Amazon region. In general, there is a marked annual variability in the incidence of FBD according to the geographic regions of Ecuador. In con- clusion, FBD represent a public health problem in Ecuador. Comprehensive preventive strategies should be designed with special emphasis on the Amazon region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BACKGROUND: Arsenic is an omnipresent and highly toxic metalloid that can impair quality of life or lead to death. It is found pure or in combination with other metals in trace concentrations in all natural environments and in high concentrations in deep aquifers, in addition to different environments that are rapidly polluted by anthropogenic processes. OBJECTIVES: To describe the biological, cytotoxic and genotoxic effects of arsenic on human being. METHODOLOGY: A simple bibliographic review was carried out. Databases such as PubMed, Toxichem Krimtech, Clinical-key, and Academic Google were used. Articles in English, Spanish and German, done from 1993 to 2021, national and international, were included. The search words used were: As, arsenic, inorganic, genotoxicity, cytotoxicity, toxicity, intoxication, epigenetics, exposure, micronuclei, biomarkers, DNA damage, and human. RESULTS: There were included 56 articles. Millions of people are exposed to arsenic. The inorganic forms, specifically the trivalent, are the most harmful. This metalloid causes several diseases mainly due to oxidative stress. CONCLUSIONS: Arsenic is an international public health problem that affects millions of people. This problem is not addressed with the necessary measures to mitigate the deleterious effects of this metalloid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the context of the commemoration of the bicentennial of Peruvian independence, we find a diversity of thematic lines that deserve further exploration. Under this premise, the central objective of this research is to analyze the impact of diseases and epidemics during the War of Independence in Peru based on a series of medical testimonies and stories from travelers of the time. In that sense, this work seeks to join a series of investigations that contribute to understanding the situation of public health in the last years of Spanish rule in Peru, and the repercussions that diseases and epidemics had during and after the War of independence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research study aims to analyze leadership in a post COVID-19 scenario in the public health sector, in the hospitals of La Serena and Coquimbo, from the Coquimbo region (Chile). A relational model with fourteen hypotheses is proposed, using structural equations through the partial least squares method. The results show that service quality is a consequence of the positive, direct, and indirect influence of effective communication and work team empowerment, where its variance is explained by 53.4%, while organizational development has an incidence of 43.8% and 53.1%, respectively. It is concluded that it is important to encourage the development of empathetic leadership within public health organizations and their work teams, not only for good care directed to patients and families, but also as a means to raise institutional reputation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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La presente investigación analiza las principales causas de mortalidad en las provincias de la Sierra y Oriente del Ecuador, mediante el análisis de clúster utilizando el método K-means, con datos obtenidos del Registro Estadístico de Defunciones Generales del año 2023. A través del uso de técnicas de minería de datos, se identificaron tres grupos de provincias con patrones de mortalidad distintos. Estos grupos revelan características diferenciadas en cuanto a la prevalencia de enfermedades como la diabetes, enfermedades cardíacas, enfermedades cerebrovasculares, así como muertes por accidentes de tránsito y homicidios. Este estudio destaca la importancia de utilizar herramientas estadísticas para el análisis de datos en salud pública, proponiendo recomendaciones específicas de políticas y prácticas de prevención para cada grupo de provincias.

Eventos como la pandemia de COVID-19, han provocado un cambio radical en la forma de realizar actividades de la vida cotidiana, como las compras, la solicitud de servicios y la forma de prestar atención médica, uno de los servicios que se vieron afectados debido al aislamiento social requerido durante la pandemia, sin embargo, gracias a la tecnología se ha podido contar con alternativas para brindar este tipo de servicios, reduciendo la movilidad, y ampliando la capacidad de atención por parte de los prestadores de servicios de salud, es por ello que en el presente trabajo se analizan estrategias implementadas en algunas regiones del mundo con el propósito de identificar áreas de oportunidad para los prestadores de servicios de salud en nuestro país, principalmente para la atención de enfermedades crónico degenerativas como la diabetes mellitus, así como la identificación de nuevas líneas de investigación donde salud y tecnología puedan converger.