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The global outburst of COVID-19 introduced severe issues concerning the capacity and adoption of healthcare systems and how vulnerable citizen classes might be affected. The pandemic generated the most remarkable transformation of health services, appropriating the increase in new information and communication technologies to bring sustainability to health services. This paper proposes a novel, methodological, and collaborative approach based on patient-centered technology, which consists of a recommender system architecture to assist the health service level according to medical specialties. The system provides recommendations according to the user profile of the citizens and a ranked list of medical facilities. Thus, we propose a health attention factor to semantically compute the similarity between medical specialties and offer medical centers with response capacity, health service type, and close user geographic location. Thus, considering the challenges described in the state-of-the-art, this approach tackles issues related to recommenders in mobile devices and the diversity of items in the healthcare domain, incorporating semantic and geospatial processing. The recommender system was tested in diverse districts of Mexico City, and the spatial visualization of the medical facilities filtering by the recommendations is displayed in a Web-GIS application. © 2022 by the authors.
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The present article aims at shedding some light to the question whether Mexicos boom in remittances between 2015 and 2021 was the result of low rates of unemployment in the USA or of higher revenues of drug trafficking made by Mexican Criminal Groups. We found that Mexican migration to the USA took off up 2019 and accelerated with Covid-19 pandemic. Since higher rates of unemployment matched with larger number of remittances and a spike in drug overdose deaths in the USA, a hypothesis aroused stating that Mexican remittances could be related to drug trafficking revenues. An Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) found a normal negative correlation (not causation) between US-unemployment rate and remittances from 2015 to 2019 but an abnormal negative correlation from 2020 to 2021. We conclude that the record level in Mexican remittances between 2020 and 2021 could be the result of an increase in Mexican migration but also from a windfall in drug trafficking earnings mirrored in a spike of drug overdose deaths in the USA. © 2023, Norteamerica. All Rights Reserved.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has promoted the need to take care of health at home, using M-Health systems to monitor vital signs in healthy people and in those with heart conditions. Thus, the body sensor networks (BSNs) are extremely useful for sensing and alerting when some type of health risk is identified such as arrhythmia and low oxygen levels as well as for helping to make a decision. This chapter describes a home health monitoring system to identify cardiac risk events and monitor oxygenation levels in a person using a BSN simulator and exploring the energy performance of the network, considering the IoT devices installed at home. The work is oriented toward monitoring and identifying risk events in closed spaces, and it is addressed to people with two types of conditions: (1) those with heart diseases and (2) those people who need to monitor their oxygen levels after recovering from the COVID-19 disease. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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The present work reveals the impact that the use of the Microsoft Teams technological platform in the teaching process has had for teachers and students of the Jose Alejandro Bermudez Farias Educational Unit from the epidemiological situation caused by COVID-19. Distance education is assumed as a relevant reference for research, as it provides theoretical, methodological and technological foundations of capital importance. Likewise, the procedural, methodological, contextual and technological dimensions that characterize the teaching process are presented. As part of the research process, various information gathering methods and techniques were used.
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Objective: To report a case of a patient infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) associated with oculomotor paresis of the sixth cranial nerve. Case report: A 49-year-old patient reported a 2-month history of horizontal diplopia. In addition to diplopia, the patient had mild respiratory symptoms with positivity to SARS-CoV-2. Ocular examination revealed an esotropia of 20 prism diopters, as well as a limitation of the abduction of the left eye of -1.5. The patient was diagnosed with left sixth nerve palsy that required treatment with botulinum toxin type A.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) defines "Pandemic" as diseases that spread globally. Since a few years ago, obesity has become a serious global public health problem and has been considered a pandemic, of a non-infectious type. On the other hand, COVID-19 is a respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and given its rapid spread it is considered a pandemic. While confinement and other restrictive measures help to prevent the spread of COVID-19, these measures also make obesity a larger problem in the world population, by increasing the availability of certain foods and increasing hours of physical inactivity. Although anyone could be affected by the COVID-19, risk factors associated with severe morbidity and mortality have been identified, which include obesity and more recently fatty liver. It is essential to know the pathophysiological bases of this relationship, in order to control the risk factors that are modifiable and look for new therapeutic alternatives that decrease the severity and mortality of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Long-term studies evaluating the impact of weight control interventions on the severity of SARS-COV2 infection and mortality rate are required.