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

Evaluative models for complex health interventions
Rev Salud Publica (Bogota). 2020 Jul 1;22(4):475-481. doi: 10.15446/rsap.V22n4.77864.ABSTRACTThis paper presents evaluative models for complex health interventions. The complex health interventions are characterized by being dynamic, highly influenced by the con-text (political, social, economic, and cultural), which have multiple actors, multicomponent. Furthermore, they are executed simultaneously with other interventions from other sectors, they require time to show results and sometimes it is difficult to estimate the contribution to the social and individual impact of the target population. This paper aims to identify...
Source: Revista de Salud Publica - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lina M Garc ía-Zapata Source Type: research

Impact of urinary incontinence on quality of life and its relationship with symptoms of depression and anxiety in women
CONCLUSION: There was a negative impact on almost all domains of QOL in women with UI; cases with mixed urinary incontinence (MUI) reported worse QOL scores. There was a high prevalence of depression and anxiety in this population, and they were associated with worse impact on QOL for incontinent women. The most limited areas were activities of daily living, physical, social, and emotional aspects, health perception, sleep and mood.PMID:36753260 | DOI:10.15446/rsap.V21n4.50016 (Source: Revista de Salud Publica)
Source: Revista de Salud Publica - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jeferson Messias de Alencar-Cruz Lilian Lira-Lisboa Source Type: research

Accessibility to drinking water as an alternative to promote its consumption at the Universidad de Panam á
CONCLUSIONS: This work highlights the importance of promoting water consumption in the university population, suggesting that the Universidad de Panamá has infrastructure conditions that allow water intake, thus promoting healthy habits and fulfilling its commitment to the health of the population.PMID:36753261 | DOI:10.15446/rsap.V21n4.75787 (Source: Revista de Salud Publica)
Source: Revista de Salud Publica - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Claudia Rengifo-Herrera Mitzi Cubilla-Montilla Estelina Ortega de G ómez Rub én A Berrocal-Tenorio Lourdes Graell de Alguero Source Type: research

Physical activity in institutions of integral care to the early childhood
CONCLUSION: In addition to the knowledge of basic aspects of physical activity by the educational agents and directors, training and accompaniment of professionals and state agencies is required in a joint work that extends to the family and allows the promotion of the Physical activity as a healthy habit from childhood.PMID:36753262 | DOI:10.15446/rsap.V21n4.78694 (Source: Revista de Salud Publica)
Source: Revista de Salud Publica - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Olga M Par ís-Pineda Nohora E Álvarez-Rey V íctor D Calvo-Betancur Source Type: research

Doctor-Patient relationship in healthcare institutions of Medellin, Colombia
CONCLUSIONS: It is essential that the actors of the GSSSH propose interventions that reinforce the communicative and psychosocial capacities in the doctors from their formative processes, as well as the provision of the GSSSH to provide conditions that allow the doctor to develop a health care focused on the patient.PMID:36753263 | DOI:10.15446/rsap.V21n4.80095 (Source: Revista de Salud Publica)
Source: Revista de Salud Publica - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David Pulgar ín-Vergara Diana M Castro-Arroyave Source Type: research

Family actions of people with disabilities victims of forced displacement
CONCLUSION: Perception that exists about disability and displacement situation increases the social exclusion actions towards this population group by the regular society, which reflects the invisibility of the double situation of fragility.PMID:36753264 | DOI:10.15446/rsap.V21n4.59052 (Source: Revista de Salud Publica)
Source: Revista de Salud Publica - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Edwin H Meza-Rosero Source Type: research

Physical effects of atmospheric pollution unconsciously perceived by citizenship, in the metropolitan area of Monterrey city, Nuevo Le ón, Mexico
DISCUSSION: It was determined that the current levels of environment contaminants in the MUAM have reached degrees of affectation in organisms of people with susceptibility or problems either visual or respiratory, when they carry out their activities in external environments.PMID:36753265 | DOI:10.15446/rsap.V21n4.74959 (Source: Revista de Salud Publica)
Source: Revista de Salud Publica - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jorge Leal-Iga Source Type: research

Previous and current use profile of psychiatric and general population
CONCLUSION: The current tobacco use profile by psychiatric hospital smokers differs from the others. Besides higher tobacco dependency, they smoked a higher amount of cigarettes per day, compromised higher perceptual of personal income to buy tobacco and used multiples tobacco products as well as received less support to stop smoking.PMID:36753266 | DOI:10.15446/rsap.V21n4.67831 (Source: Revista de Salud Publica)
Source: Revista de Salud Publica - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Renata Marques de Oliveira Jair Licio Ferreira-Santos Antonia Regina Ferreira-Furegato Source Type: research

Mental Health Inventory - 5 (MHI-5) in peruvian adolescents: preliminary validation study
CONCLUSIONS: It is concluded that the MHI-5 maintains the essential one-dimensionality, but it is required to introduce the possible effect of the method due to the content of some of its items. Consistency reliability was acceptable for screening purposes. The following steps are discussed to accumulate more validity evidence, suggesting to develop a shorter version without the problematic items, to reduce the potential response bias.PMID:36753267 | DOI:10.15446/rsap.V21n4.66357 (Source: Revista de Salud Publica)
Source: Revista de Salud Publica - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: C ésar Merino-Soto Yvette Cuba-Canales Luc ía Rojas-Aquiño Source Type: research

Geographic distribution of mortality due to multiple sclerosis in Colombia, 2010-2015
CONCLUSION: The pattern of mortality due to multiple sclerosis is similar in the study period. The highest burden of mortality was recorded in women and in municipalities of Santander and Boyacá.PMID:36753268 | DOI:10.15446/rsap.V21n4.76176 (Source: Revista de Salud Publica)
Source: Revista de Salud Publica - February 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sandra P Misnaza-Castrill ón Julio C Mart ínez-Angarita V íctor M Martínez-Gómez Source Type: research