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Resumen Objetivo: En el tercero de los Objetivos del Desarrollo Sostenible: Salud y Bienestar, se encuentra la meta destinada a fortalecer la prevención y el tratamiento del abuso de sustancias. Se proponen tres objetivos: (1) identificar bibliografía referente al uso de vaporizadores en adolescentes y jóvenes para constatar variables importantes como factores asociados, (2) realizar una recopilación comunitaria mediante entrevistas y foros para reconocer la percepción social del uso de vaporizadores, y (3) determinar, en la población de jóvenes y adolescentes puertorriqueños, la prevalencia del uso de vaporizadores. Materiales y Métodos: Un estudio mixto: cualitativo observacional y transversal analítico fue realizado basado en el modelo conceptual de la Promoción de la Salud (comunitario, individual y científico) con una recopilación de datos consistente en: revisión de 13 artículos, entrevistas a informantes claves que trabajan con la salud y seguridad de jóvenes puertorriqueños, y análisis, utilizando el programado SPSS, de prevalencias del cuestionario puertorriqueño autoadministrado Consulta Juvenil (n=8,603), base de datos secundaria. Resultados: La literatura establece factores asociados como: mercadeo, relación familiar y socialización. Se encontró que las organizaciones visualizan a la promoción de la salud comunitaria como un método preventivo. El 21.9% de estudiantes de escuela superior hacen uso de vaporizadores. 22.1% no saben la sustancia que contiene su vaporizador. Conclusión: La promoción de la salud se basa en políticas públicas favorables, educación en salud, movilización social-comunitaria y trabajo multidisciplinario. Recomendamos que, se practiquen evaluaciones y prevenciones del uso de vaporizadores basados en una salud pública promotora de la salud. De esta manera, se trabajará el Objetivo del Desarrollo Sostenible: Salud y Bienestar, para la protección de generaciones jóvenes y disminuir las prevalencias del uso de sustancias.
Abstract Objective: In the third of the Sustainable Development Goals: Health and Well-being, there is a goal aimed at strengthening the prevention and treatment of substance abuse. Three objectives are proposed: (1) identify a bibliography regarding the use of vaporizers in adolescents and young people to verify important variables as associated factors, and (2) carry out a community compilation through interviews and forums to recognize the social perception of the use of vaporizers, and (3) determine, in the population of Puerto Rican youth and adolescents, the prevalence of the use of vaporizers. Materials and methods: A mixed study: qualitative observational and cross-sectional analytical was carried out with data collection consisting of a review of 13 articles, interviews with key informants who work with the health and safety of young Puerto Ricans, and analysis, using the SPSS program, of the prevalence of the Puerto Rican self-administered questionnaire Consulta Juvenil as a secondary database (n=8,603). Results: The literature establishes associated factors such as marketing, family relationship, and socialization. It was found that organizations view community health promotion as a preventive method. 21.9% of high school students use vaporizers. 22.1% do not know the substance contained in their vaporizer. Conclusion: Health promotion is based on favorable public policies, health education, social- community mobilization, and multidisciplinary work. We recommend that evaluations and prevention of the use of vaporizers be practiced based on health-promoting public health. In this way, the Sustainable Development Goal will be worked on: Health and Well-being for the protection of young generations and to reduce the prevalence of substance use.
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Introducción: El Reglamento de Educación de Posgrado de la República de Cuba de 2019 abre nuevas respuestas a las necesidades de formación académica de maestría para profesionales de la salud, cuestión pendiente en las áreas asistencial, administrativa y especializada. Esto tributa a la continuidad, pertinencia e interdisciplinariedad de la formación profesional, y a los diseños curriculares de maestría en este sector. Objetivo: Fundamentar las orientaciones que pueden asumir los programas de maestría para profesionales de la salud. Posicionamiento del autor: Se parte de posiciones teórico-metodológicas del proceso pedagógico de posgrado en el área de la salud, de su relación con la actividad laboral que desempeñan sus trabajadores y de la legislación vigente en materia de posgrado en el país, para considerar el sistema de actividades profesionales fundamentales que aseguran el cumplimiento de las misiones de la institución. Esto requiere de una generalización esencial y de abstracción sucesiva, a partir del análisis de las funciones que se desempeñan en los puestos de trabajo y que tributan al cumplimiento de esas misiones. La maestría aporta una amplia y avanzada cultura científica en determinada área del saber, así como mayor capacidad y desarrollo para llevar a cabo las actividades. Esto se reinvierte de forma potenciada en sus desempeños en el puesto de trabajo, y en el desarrollo y cumplimiento de la misión social de la institución. Conclusiones: Las orientaciones de las maestrías para profesionales de la salud son asistencia, investigación, docencia y administración. Independientemente de la orientación que asuma el programa, la investigación continúa siendo esencial(AU)
Introduction: The 2019 regulations on postgraduate education of the Republic of Cuba open new responses to the needs of academic master's degree courses for training health professionals, a pending issue in the healthcare, management and specialization areas. This contributes to the continuity, pertinence and interdisciplinarity of professional training, as well as to the master's degree curricular designs in this sector. Objective: To substantiate the orientations that master's degree programs for health professionals can assume. Author position: The foundations are made up of theoretical-methodological positions corresponding to the postgraduate pedagogical process in the health area, its relation with the occupational activity carried out by health workers, and the currently valid legislation on postgraduate education in the country, in order to consider the system of fundamental professional activities that ensure the fulfillment of institutional missions. This requires an essential generalization and subsequent abstraction, based on the analysis of the occupational functions performed and contributing to the fulfillment of these missions. The master's degree courses provide a broad and advanced scientific culture in a certain field of knowledge, as well as greater capacity and development to carry out activities. This is retrieved in an enhanced way in terms of occupational performance, as well as in the development and fulfillment of the social mission of the institution. Conclusions: The master's degree courses for health professionals are oriented to the healthcare, research, teaching and management scenarios. Regardless of the orientation of the program, research continues to be essential(AU)
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Humans , Health Personnel/education , Health Postgraduate ProgramsABSTRACT
Pseudohypoparathyroidism (PHP) is a group of rare genetic disorders that share organ targeted resistance to the action of parathyroid hormone (PTH) as a common feature. Biochemically, they may present with hypocalcemia, hyperphosphatemia and elevated PTH. Some forms present with a specific phenotype: short stature, round facies, short neck, obesity, brachydactyly and subcutaneous calcifications, called Albrigth's Hereditary Osteodystrophy (AHO). This spectrum of disorders are caused by several alterations in the gene coding for the alpha subunit of the G protein (GNAS): an ubiquitous signaling protein that mediates the action of numerous hormones such as PTH, TSH, gonadotropins, and ACTH, among others. According to their inheritance with maternal or paternal imprinting, they may manifest in a diversity of clinical forms. Although most commonly diagnosed during childhood, PHP may manifest clinically during adolescence or early adulthood. We report two late presenting cases of pseudohypoparathyroidism. A 21-year-old female with biochemical abnormalities characteristic of pseudohypoparathyroidism who was misdiagnosed as epilepsy and a 13-year-old boy with the classic AHO phenotype but without alterations in phospho-calcium metabolism, compatible with pseudopseudohypoparathyrodism.
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Humans , Male , Female , Adolescent , Young Adult , Pseudohypoparathyroidism/diagnostic imaging , Time Factors , Tomography, X-Ray ComputedABSTRACT
The increased survival of patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), due in great part to antiretroviral therapy, has led to the disease becoming a chronic condition. The result of this new picture, is the development of several chronic metabolic diseases, including diabetes mellitus. The aim of this retrospective study is to evaluate the prevalence of diabetes mellitus and prediabetes in HIV people that is controlled in a tertiary Chilean hospital and other epidemiological aspects of this condition. The results show a prevalence of 2.95 percent of diabetes and 13.0 percent of prediabetes in HIV patients, similar results to the international literature. The vast majority of these patients acquire diabetes or prediabetes after the HIV debut. It is important to know our local prevalence of metabolic comorbidities in these patients, in this case diabetes and prediabetes, to improve our research and adequate treatment in this population.