Potential Dermatological Conditions Resulting from a Prolonged Stay at Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review.

A new coronavirus emerged in 2019 in Wuhan, China named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome type 2 coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). Later, this virus spread worldwide, causing a disease called coronavirus disease (COVID-19). To control the outbreak, many countries announced mandatory quarantine; thus, people changed their lifestyles and started engaging in most activities from home. This review explains how some dermatological pathologies may be precipitated by prolonged stays at home, considering that quarantine was a widely used public health measure during 2020. Most of these dermatoses had to be seen, diagnosed, and treated through tele-dermatology, a remote health care system that took force during the COVID-19 pandemic because of its ease and efficiency in connecting health care professionals and their patients; therefore, reducing the risk of contagion and costs associated to medical care. This review of the principal dermatologic conditions during confinement could allow for a better preparation of health professionals.

Translating transmissibility measures into recommendations for coronavirus prevention.

The rapid increase in clinical cases of the new coronavirus disease, COVID-19, suggests high transmissibility. However, the estimates of the basic reproductive number reported in the literature vary widely. Considering this, we drew the function of contact-rate reduction required to control the transmission from both detectable and undetectable sources. Based on this, we offer a set of recommendations for symptomatic and asymptomatic populations during the current pandemic. Understanding the dynamics of transmission is essential to support government decisions and improve the community's adherence to preventive measures.

Translating transmissibility measures into recommendations for coronavirus prevention

ABSTRACT The rapid increase in clinical cases of the new coronavirus disease, COVID-19, suggests high transmissibility. However, the estimates of the basic reproductive number reported in the literature vary widely. Considering this, we drew the function of contact-rate reduction required to control the transmission from both detectable and undetectable sources. Based on this, we offer a set of recommendations for symptomatic and asymptomatic populations during the current pandemic. Understanding the dynamics of transmission is essential to support government decisions and improve the community's adherence to preventive measures.

Estrategias de intervención Comunitaria en Salud en un Campamento Universitario Multidisciplinario de Investigación y Servicio / Health's Community intervention strategies in a Multidisciplinary Research and Service´s University Camp

Introducción: La atención primaria en salud busca una mejor salud en la población, que sea accesible a todos los individuos y familias de la comunidad, con su plena participación y a un costo asequible, mediante diferentes mecanismos dentro de las cuales están las intervenciones comunitarias. Objetivos: Describir los resultados obtenidos tras la intervención a través de consultas y visitas domiciliarias como estrategias para la identificación, tamizaje, promoción y prevención en salud. Métodos: Se creó una brigada de salud bajo el emblema de Misión Médica en Santa Cecilia, corregimiento del municipio Pueblo Rico, Risaralda, Colombia. Se realizaron actividades de información, educación, acercamiento y atención en salud para la población general de la localidad y veredas aledañas. Se efectuaron valoraciones médicas, se diligenciaron historias clínicas y se evaluó la percepción de la actividad por los miembros de la comunidad y por el personal de la salud. Se contó con el apoyo y aprobación departamental y local. Resultados: Se realizaron 606 historias clínicas, 63,9 por ciento era población menor de edad, 55,6 por ciento eran de sexo femenino. Las enfermedades de mayor prevalencia en la población intervenida fueron patologías infecciosas como parasitosis, neumonía y enfermedades transmitidas por vectores. Conclusiones: Las intervenciones primarias en salud son difíciles de realizar, requieren apoyo de equipos multidisciplinarios e instituciones para generar impacto positivo en las comunidades, es importante realizar mayor número de intervenciones comunitarias con participación estatal y de la comunidad, utilizando estrategias científicas de evaluación con el fin de establecer más objetivamente los resultados de las intervenciones(AU)

Introduction: Primary health care looks for better health indicators in the population, to be accessible to all individuals and families in the community, with their full participation and at an affordable cost, through different mechanisms, among which are the community interventions. Objectives: To describe the results obtained after the intervention through consultations and home visits as strategies for identification, screening, health promotion and prevention. Methods: A health brigade was created under the emblem of Medical Mission in Santa Cecilia, Pueblo Rico municipality, Risaralda, Colombia. Information, education, outreach and health care activities were performed for the general population of the town and surrounding districts. Medical assessments were made, and the clinical histories were used to evaluate perception of the activity done by the community members and the health staff. There was local and departmental support and approval. Results: 606 clinical histories were made. The 63.9 percent were children and 55.6 percent were female. The predominant diseases in the population under the intervention were infectious ones as: parasitic infections, pneumonia and vector-borne diseases. Conclusions: The primary interventions in health are difficult to perform as they require support of multidisciplinary teams and institutions to generate a positive impact on communities. It is important to perform a greater number of community-based interventions with state and community participation, using scientific strategies of evaluation in order to establish more objectively the results of the interventions(AU)

Nuevas perspectivas en el manejo terapéutico de la enfermedad de chagas / New perspectives in the therapeutic management of the Chagas disease

Desde hace un par de décadas y más aun en los últimos cinco años, se ha desarrollado un gran número de estudios que demuestran la actividad tripanocida de diversas drogas, algunas nuevas, muchas viejas, lo cual aunado al conocimiento acerca de la persistencia parasitaria de Trypanosoma cruzi en tejido miocárdico, entre otros, durante las fases crónicas de la enfermedad, permiten hacer patente que existe un nuevo paradigma, nuevas aproximaciones al manejo terapéutico del paciente con enfermedad de Chagas. En el presente artículo se revisan las principales bases que sustentan dichas perspectivas terapéuticas en la tripanosomiasis americana.

For the last couple of decades and particularly during the last five years, it has been reported a significant number of studies demonstrating the trypanocide activity of a large number of drugs, some of them news, others older; which jointly with the knowledge, also of recent date, about parasitary persistence of Trypanosoma cruzi at myocardial tissues, and others, in chronic phase of disease, are letting to do patent that exist a new paradigm, new approaches of the therapeutic management of Chagas’ disease patient. In current article main basis sustaining those therapeutic perspectives in American trypanosomiasis are reviewed.