The 'right to health': difficulties, achievements, and challenges
Rev Salud Publica (Bogota). 2020 Sep 1;22(5):552-555. doi: 10.15446/rsap.V22n5.80161.ABSTRACTThe right to health as a right has been part of the social slogans of recent times, this article analyzes it as a positive human right and delves into what it means to define health as a right applied to the Colombian context.PMID:36753225 | DOI:10.15446/rsap.V22n5.80161 (Source: Revista de Salud Publica)
Source: Revista de Salud Publica - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Delf ín I Grueso Lina M Garc ía-Zapata Source Type: research
The educator for health in public health
Rev Salud Publica (Bogota). 2020 Sep 1;22(5):556-559. doi: 10.15446/rsap.V22n5.87075.ABSTRACTThis essay argues how the health educator in his work in the field of traditional public health solves forms of relationship with the students, framed in the preponderance of the biomedical model, through the imposition of meanings and values located in a conception biologist of the disease that has made health invisible. In contrast, the critical perspective of alternative public health is presented as a possibility to give another meaning to the practice of the health educator. On the roll of the health like a social construct, t...
Source: Revista de Salud Publica - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Nelly J Loboa-Rodriguez Diana P Betancurth-Loaiza Source Type: research
Risks, contamination and prevention against COVID-19 in dental work: a review
CONCLUSIONS: In the dental profession the potential risk of contamination among operators, assistants and patients is high. Knowing the causative agent and the disease allows you to reduce the possibility of contagion. The dentist must consider patients as suspects to COVID-19 and apply biosecurity at all levels.PMID:36753227 | DOI:10.15446/rsap.V22n5.86065 (Source: Revista de Salud Publica)
Source: Revista de Salud Publica - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Paul M Herrera-Plasencia Erika Enoki-Mi ñano Miguel Y A Ruiz-Barrueto Source Type: research
COVID-19 and its socio-cultural imagery in Latin America: a tool for public health
CONCLUSIONS: The knowledge of the population about COVID-19 privileges clinical and epidemiological aspects, as well as containment and mitigation measures.PMID:36753237 | DOI:10.15446/rsap.V22n4.87515 (Source: Revista de Salud Publica)
Source: Revista de Salud Publica - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Mar ía Del Pilar Gómez-González Alexis Ch ávez-Díaz Alejandra Sierra-Mac ías Source Type: research
Determinants of birth weight among children of irregular migrant Venezuelan women in Barranquilla and Riohacha
CONCLUSIONS: The probability of low birth weight in the newborns of those mothers who did not have prenatal controls was 82.7% higher compared to the children of mothers who had four or more prenatal cares.PMID:36753238 | DOI:10.15446/rsap.V22n4.87572 (Source: Revista de Salud Publica)
Source: Revista de Salud Publica - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Mar ía M Vega-Gutiérrez Juli án A Fernández-Niño Maylen L Rojas-Botero Source Type: research
Completeness of mortality reports in the vital statistics system in the Colombian Orinoquia, 2017
CONCLUSIONS: Both demographic dynamics and migration influenced the results obtained from the integrity of the mortality records, therefore, also in the selection of the most appropriate method to estimate integrity; when the population is neither stable nor closed, methods based on two censuses with specific growth rates and migration adjustment should be applied; if there is no information on migration, the Hill method is recommended.PMID:36753239 | DOI:10.15446/rsap.V22n4.86460 (Source: Revista de Salud Publica)
Source: Revista de Salud Publica - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Oscar A Guti érrez-Lesmes Hugo de Jes ús Grisales-Romero Source Type: research
Violence forms among university students from Junin Regi ón, Perú
CONCLUSION: It was confirmed that there are different forms of violence and their levels in both males and females. This knowledge will serve as a basis for the development and implementation of educational programs that help university students to establish adequate behavior and mental health.PMID:36753240 | DOI:10.15446/rsap.V22n4.87379 (Source: Revista de Salud Publica)
Source: Revista de Salud Publica - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Carmen Y Baltazar-Meza Bel én Del Rosario Pérez-Camborda Dany Y Solis-Mandujano Alex R Huam án De La Cruz Source Type: research
Epidemiologic behavior of leptospirosis in M éxico during the period 2013-2019
CONCLUSIONS: To date leptospirosis is an important emerging zoonotic disease in Mexico, the disease occurs more frequently during rainy season, being Sinaloa and Tabasco the most affected States by this disease.PMID:36753241 | DOI:10.15446/rsap.V22n4.87535 (Source: Revista de Salud Publica)
Source: Revista de Salud Publica - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jos é E Yescas-Benítez Nallely Rivero-Perez Hugo E Montiel-D íaz Benjam ín Valladares-Carranza Armando Pel áez-Acero Ana L Morales-Ubaldo Adrian Zaragoza-Bastida Source Type: research
Prevalence of enteroparasites in vegetables marketed in the city of Jaguar é, Espírito Santo, Brazil
CONCLUSIONS: The results indicate a high degree of contamination of the vegetables, probably related to the precariousness of production, transportation and handling, making it necessary to adopt measures that ensure the best quality of food and, consequently, better population health.PMID:36753242 | DOI:10.15446/rsap.V22n4.77097 (Source: Revista de Salud Publica)
Source: Revista de Salud Publica - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Aiwny C ássia Jorge Antonino Anelise Andrade de Souza Marco A Andrade de Souza Source Type: research
Biological risk of Legionella pneumophila in irrigation systems
CONCLUSIONS: The study suggests that aerosolized water used in golf course watering systems could pose risk to the population by exposing them to Legionella.PMID:36753243 | DOI:10.15446/rsap.V22n4.96429 (Source: Revista de Salud Publica)
Source: Revista de Salud Publica - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Enrique Gea-Izquierdo Source Type: research
Reasons given by patients for inappropriate use of emergency medical services
CONCLUSION: It was concluded from these findings the need to strengthen primary care system in order to ensure facilitated access for users and better resolution of cases that can be seen treated in this level, in conjunction with the entire network of health care.PMID:36753244 | DOI:10.15446/rsap.V22n4.54092 (Source: Revista de Salud Publica)
Source: Revista de Salud Publica - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lidiane Cintia de Souza Amarante Camila Gon çalo Mialhe Luciane Miranda Guerra Jaqueline Vilela Bugarelli de Faria F ábio Luiz Mialhe Source Type: research
The "Carmen de Bol ívar event" in HPV vaccination in Colombia. Cause or outcome?
DISCUSSION: There could be a new list of responsibles to assess "Carmen de Bolívar" more as an outcome. Such as the introduction of the non-integrated vaccine to sexual and reproductive health programs, the absence of prior strengthening of knowledge and skills about HPV and the vaccine in health workers, especially in primary care, the absence of a specific prior communication plan at the start of vaccination, guided by the indications of problems of acceptability in the population and knowledge gaps in women in deep Colombia, the implementation of an operational strategy identical to vaccines for communicable diseases t...
Source: Revista de Salud Publica - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Giana M Henr íquez-Mendoza Source Type: research
Effectiveness of structural interventions to promote condom use in adolescents and young people: Systematic Review
CONCLUSION: Structural interventions that aim to increase the use of condoms in adolescents and young adults seem to show significant changes at individual level, but possible changes generated at both organization and environment levels are unknown.PMID:36753246 | DOI:10.15446/rsap.V22n4.85800 (Source: Revista de Salud Publica)
Source: Revista de Salud Publica - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Carlos A Quiroz-Mora Claudia P Valencia-Molina Source Type: research
Intercultural health and the indigenous health model
Rev Salud Publica (Bogota). 2020 Jul 1;22(4):463-467. doi: 10.15446/rsap.V22n4.87320.ABSTRACTThe indigenous population has lower living conditions reflected in higher morbidity and mortality despite the coverage of the Health System, so it is important to know the causes of these differences. For this, Interculturality is used as a bridge between western culture and indigenous culture. In this meeting of knowledge, the indigenous health model is identified as a cultural response to the need to maintain health and treat disease, a hierarchically organized model in which the health of the individual also depends on their hab...
Source: Revista de Salud Publica - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Mirlelly Aguilar-Pe ña Mar ía F Tobar Blandón Herney A Garc ía-Perdomo Source Type: research
Sexual and reproductive health in women victims of the armed conflict
CONCLUSION: Access to sexual health services in the conflict, for disease prevention, and the right to sexual and reproductive health must be ensured.PMID:36753248 | DOI:10.15446/rsap.V22n4.88576 (Source: Revista de Salud Publica)
Source: Revista de Salud Publica - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jonathan A Peralta-Jim énez Zulma C Urrego-Mendoza Source Type: research
