I am a physician with training in epidemiological research. I have published articles in national and international journals. I possess knowledge in methodology, biostatistics, and epidemiology. I have presented research at national and international scientific conferences.
Aim.To describe the scientific production of medical students in Spanish-speaking medical journals indexed in SciELO belonging to 2011.Materials and methods.Bibliometric study.We analyzed original articles from medical journals indexed in SciELO and which belonged to Spanish-speaking Latin-American countries belonging to 2011 to determine the student contribution.Results.A total of 99 journals indexed in SciELO were reviewed, all belonging to 11 Latin-American Spanish-speaking countries.The country with the most medical journals indexed in this database was Cuba, followed by Colombia and Chile.We counted 2,476 original articles belonging to 2011, from which 88 (3.6%) had a medical student as an author.The countries which had more journals with student publications were Colombia, Chile and Peru.The faculty with the most scientific student production was the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.In four publications it was observed the participation of students from two or more different faculties.Articles with the participation of students from different countries were not found. Conclusion.A poor student participation was found, and a low level of collaboration between students from different schools of medicine.It is recommended to take measures in different levels to increase these figures, and to periodically evaluate its development.
Peru has had the highest death toll from the pandemic worldwide; however, it is not clear what the effects of the different variants on these outcomes are. The study aimed to evaluate the risk of death, hospitalization, and intensive care unit (ICU) admission rates of COVID-19 according to the SARS-CoV-2 variants detected in Peru from March 2020-February 2022.Retrospective study using open-access databases were published by the Peruvian Ministry of Health. Databases of genomic sequencing, death, COVID-19 cases, hospitalization and ICU, and vaccination were used. Crude and adjusted Cox proportional hazards regressions with clustered variances were modeled to calculate the hazard ratio (HR) of outcomes by variant.Lambda variant had the highest risk of death (HR 1.92, 95% CI 1.37-2.68), whereas the Delta variant had the lowest risk (HR 0.50, 95% CI 0.31-0.82). Mu variant had the highest risk of hospitalization (HR: 2.39, 95% CI 1.56-3.67), Omicron the lowest (HR 0.45, 95%CI 0.23-0.90), and Gamma had the highest ICU admission rate (HR 1.95, 95%CI 1.40-2.71).SARS-CoV-2 variants showed distinctive risks of clinical outcomes, which could have implications for the management of infected persons during the pandemic.
Dentro de un ecosistema de ciencia, la generación de conocimiento debe ir de la mano con la visibilidad. Publicar, en estos tiempos, resulta ser insuficiente si no se acompaña con un público objetivo que consuma ese conocimiento. En los países en desarrollo, aquellas revistas científicas jóvenes, presentan desafíos que van más allá de la calidad de sus contenidos. Existe la necesidad urgente de estar indexadas en bases reconocidas que garanticen su difusión, legitimidad y sostenibilidad. Sin indexación, el impacto de las publicaciones científicas se torna limitado y el aporte de contextos completos corre el riesgo de no integrarse al conocimiento global, lo que dificulta su citación.
Objetivo: Evaluar los factores asociados a la depresión en adultos mayores residentes en una zona urbano marginal de Perú. Material y Métodos: Es un estudio transversal analítico en adultos mayores de 60 años residentes de una zona urbano marginal de Lima. Se evaluó la variable dependiente usando la escala de depresión geriátrica de 15 items, se consideró la presencia de depresión con un puntaje ≥ 6. Los factores asociados a la depresión, se calcularon usando razones de prevalencia crudas y ajustadas con intervalos de confianza al 95% (IC 95%) mediante regresiones de poisson con varianza robusta. Resultados: De los 142 adultos mayores con una edad promedio y desviación estándar fue 70,4±8,14. La prevalencia de la presencia de depresión fue 55,6% (mujeres 39,6% y hombres 53,4%). El no tener escolaridad (RPa: 1,40; IC 95%: 1,04 – 1,88) y no estar trabajando (RPa: 1,50; IC 95%: 1,09 – 2,05) fueron factores de riesgo que aumentaban la presencia de depresión. Conclusión: La prevalencia de presencia de depresión en adultos mayores de una zona urbano marginal de Perú fue alta. Los adultos mayores que no completaron su escolaridad y no trabajaban presentaron más probabilidades de presentar depresión.
Medwave es una revista electrónica revisada por pares y de acceso gratuito, que contiene artículos originales de revisión sobre determinantes clínicos, sociales, políticos y económicos en salud, y de investigación en el ámbito clínico y biomédico. Medwave is an online-only, peer-reviewed and open Access biomedical general journal with original review articles con clinical, social, political and economic determinants of health, and research articles on clinical and biomedical aspects.
Purpose The prison population is seldom studied and often overlooked in many countries despite their vulnerability to long-term illness. This study aims to explore the factors associated with the non-treatment for long-term illnesses among incarcerated individuals. Design/methodology/approach This study is a cross-sectional analysis. The authors conducted a secondary data analysis using information collected in the Peruvian census of incarcerated individuals. The study population consisted of incarcerated individuals diagnosed with a long-term illness. To evaluate the factors associated with non-treatment, the authors used a Poisson regression model. Findings The authors included 12,512 incarcerated individuals (age: 40.9 ± 13.1 years), and 39% of them did not receive treatment for their long-term illness. The authors observed that non-treatment was statistically associated with gender, age, having children, use of the Spanish language, sexual identity, judicial situation, penitentiary location, discrimination inside the penitentiary and health insurance before incarceration. However, only having children (prevalence ratio [PR]: 1.11, confidence interval [CI]95% 1.03–1.19), using the Spanish language (PR: 1.15, CI95%: 1.01–1.31), being in a penitentiary not in Lima (PR: 1.11, CI95%: 1.06–1.17) and perceiving discrimination inside the penitentiary (PR: 1.12, CI95% 1.06–1.18) increased the prevalence of non-treatment. Originality/value Identifying the factors associated with non-treatment will allow us to implement measures for prioritizing groups and developing strategies for the evaluation, close follow-up of their health and management of comorbidities.
Introduction : Peru ranks next to last in the number of transfusions of units of red blood cells per 1000 inhabitants in 17 countries of America. Objective : To determine the frequency of voluntary blood donation and its associated factors in medical interns in 12 cities of Peru, 2016. Material and Methods: An analytical cross-sectional study was conducted. The study population consisted of 1229 medical interns from 35 hospital sites distributed in 12 cities. The final sample was made up of 637 interns (51.8 % of the total). To do this, mixed effect logistic regression models were used for the conglomerates formed by the hospital in which the student performed the internship. Adjusted odds ratios (ORa) and 95 % confidence intervals were calculated. Results: The results show that 40.2 % of medical interns donated blood voluntarily at least once in their lifetime and 7.1 % did it at least three times in their lifetime. In the adjusted analyzes, being over 25 years old compared to be under 24 years old (ORa: 2.00, 95 % CI: 1.05 - 3.83) was associated with history of one blood donation; while being female (ORa: 0.15, 95 % CI: 0.05 - 0.43) was inversely associated with history of at least three blood donations. Conclusion : Although four in ten interns have donated blood at least once, less than one in ten have donated blood at least three times. The older age was associated with having donated blood voluntarily at least once. Women were less likely to have donated blood at least three times.
The health system is a fundamental determinant of the population's health conditions. Indicators such as the availability of human resource…