Background: It is of utmost importance to identify hypertensive subjects in a country, in order to use efficiently public resources. The National Health Survey 2009-10 in Chile incorporated a third measurement of blood pressure (BP) during the home visit performed by a nurse, and a second day of measurem...
Determinación de la Presión Sanguínea/métodos,
Encuestas Epidemiológicas/métodos,
Hipertensión/epidemiología,
Distribución por Edad,
Factores de Edad,
Chile/epidemiología,
Escolaridad,
Hipertensión/diagnóstico,
Prevalencia,
Población Rural/estadística & datos numéricos,
Distribución por Sexo,
Factores Sexuales,
Población Urbana/estadística & datos numéricos
Background: Health care must be provided with strong primary health care models, emphasizing prevention and a continued, integrated and interdisciplinary care. Tools should be used to allow a better planning and more efficient use of resources. Aim: To assess risk adjustment methodologies, such as the Ad...
Diabetes Mellitus/epidemiología,
Asignación de Recursos para la Atención de Salud/economía,
Insuficiencia Cardíaca/embriología,
Hipertensión/epidemiología,
Ajuste de Riesgo/métodos,
Chile/epidemiología,
Enfermedad Crónica,
Diabetes Mellitus/diagnóstico,
Grupos Diagnósticos Relacionados,
Insuficiencia Cardíaca/diagnóstico,
Hospitales de Condado/economía,
Hipertensión/diagnóstico,
Morbilidad,
Atención Primaria de Salud/economía
Background: Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) refers to individuals' perception of their subjective well-being, considering various aspects of their life and the impact on their health. Aim: To analyze gender differences in the HRQOL of adolescent students in Chile, by age, type of school attended, ...
Protección a la Infancia/estadística & datos numéricos,
Calidad de Vida,
Autoimagen,
Estudiantes/estadística & datos numéricos,
Factores de Edad,
Chile,
Estudios Transversales,
Modelos Logísticos,
Grupo Paritario,
Factores de Riesgo,
Factores Sexuales,
Factores Socioeconómicos,
Encuestas y Cuestionarios
Background: Cholelithiasis (CL) represents a major health burden in Chile, with rates of cholecystectomy (CCT) of ~40.000 per year. The explicit health care guaranties (GES) program includes prioritized CCT for CL carriers between 35 and 49 years of age. Aim: To assess the access and opportunity of CCT i...
Colecistectomía/estadística & datos numéricos,
Colelitiasis/cirugía,
Accesibilidad a los Servicios de Salud/estadística & datos numéricos,
Atención Primaria de Salud/estadística & datos numéricos,
Factores de Edad,
Chile,
Colelitiasis/diagnóstico por imagen,
Procedimientos Quirúrgicos Electivos/estadística & datos numéricos,
Estudios de Seguimiento,
Factores Sexuales,
Estadísticas no Paramétricas,
Factores de Tiempo,
Listas de Espera
This article completes the study of the National Psychiatrics Publications and Authors during 150 speciality years. Here we describe the last fifty years (1952-2002). On it describes the biography and his principal contributes of mentioned authors. They are the Drs. Sergio Peña y Lillo, Ignacio Matte Bl...
The assessment of Chilean Tuberculosis Control Program shows a growing increase of tuberculosis cases in foreign patients in communes of the city of Santiago with higher incidence of this disease. Through the evaluation of the cases diagnosed in a decade we found an increasing contribution of foreigners,...
Salas, Sofía P;
Besio, Mauricio;
Bórquez Estefó, Gladys;
Salinas, Rodrigo A;
Valenzuela, Carlos Y;
Micolich, Constanza;
Novoa Sotta, Fernando;
Bernier Villarroel, Lioniel;
Montt M, Julio;
Misseroni Raddatz, Adelio.
The Chilean bill that regulates abortion for three cases (Bulletin Nº 9895-11) includes the possibility that health professionals may manifest their conscientious objection (CO) to perform this procedure. Due to the broad impact that the issue of C O had, the Ethics Department of the Chilean College of ...
This work describes the origin of the different locations that Casa de Orates (Madhouse) has occupied in Chile. The locations of this institution at the Yungay and Chimba neighborhoods area are specially analyzed. Moreover, the sad and poorly known incident involving the national Madhouse of Providencia ...
El Programa API (Apoyo Psiquiatría Infantil), es un sistema colaborativo multimodal (telefónico y presencial), entre nivel primario (7 Consultorios) y secundario (Hospital Salvador, Valparaíso) de salud. Se presentan los resultados del estudio descriptivo prospectivo del Programa API durante 12 meses ...
