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Assessment of an environmental incident in the town of cimitarra, santander
An oil company shed industrial pollutants into a stream, which supplied water to the inhabitants of a village in the town of Cimitarra, Department of Santander, in March 1998. A study of this environmental incident was ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Revista de Salud Pública. -
Health and development
The concepts of health and development, which are frequently used in the analysis of the relationships between them, are presented. Positive and negative determinations are considered from both sides. In the first case, ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Revista de Salud Pública. -
Massive deworming, nutritional status and learning capacity in school children in a rural community
one hundred and ninety eight children of a rural village school were studied for parasitological variables, nutritional status (anthropometric variables and blood parameters) and assessment of their learning capacity. the ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Revista de Salud Pública. -
Why not teach medicine how we practice?
Teaching University hospitals need to increase their productivity and efficiency in order to survive. Ambulatory care in teaching hospitals is slower, compared to others because the academic system promotes o requires ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Revista de Salud Pública. -
Perspectives for epidemiology within the reform to the social security
The reform to the social security systems generated new fields of action for epidemiology, particularly those related to strategies for social and sanitary justice. In the first strategy the epidemiological method can ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Revista de Salud Pública. -
The scenes of crime in five cities
Information obtained from a sample of 223 male offenders between the ages of 18 and 29 consecutively identified in five cities in Colombia indicate that the majority of the offenses reported occurred between Friday and ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Revista de Salud Pública. -
Development plan and health system: coverage and equity
In the chapter devoted to health, the national development plan for 1998- 2002 presents a set of problems and some administrative and technical solutions, focused on the financial viability of the health system. Nevertheless ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Revista de Salud Pública. -
Yellow fever in colombia: a seminal investigation
The findings of Finlay in Cuba and Franco in Colombia, which enabled, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the identification of the cycles of urban and sylvatic yellow fever, respectively, illustrate the importance ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Revista de Salud Pública. -
Internal control system in health institutions
A basic tool for the development of health institutions is the internal control system, whose components and processes are presented, emphasizing their need, usefulness and viability.Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Revista de Salud Pública. -
La salud oral, ¿cuestión de cultura?
El artículo llama la atención sobre la necesidad de estudiar la salud oral desde una perspectiva sociocultural, pues hay interpretaciones diversas sobre: la importancia de ella, los tratamientos que se consideran benéficos, ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Revista de Salud Pública. -
Por la salud mental
En Colombia se han realizado el Estudio de Salud Mental y Consumo de Sustancias psicoactivas, de 1993 (2) y el Estudio de 1997 (1), que suministran información epidemiológica sobre las enfermedades mentales. Los resultados ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Revista de Salud Pública. -
Tendencias de las violencias
Las tipologías de las violencias son múltiples dependiendo de los factores y aspectos que se tomen en cuenta (4). Si partimos de la naturaleza del acto o la acción violenta, e incluimos los actores sociales y las víctimas, ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Revista de Salud Pública. -
De la sanidad a la salud pública
Con esta edición se inicia la Revista de Salud Pública. Antes que un listado de buenos propósitos quisiéramos destacar el papel que aspiramos a cumplir y las funciones que vislumbramos para nuestra publicación, retomando ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Revista de Salud Pública. -
La problemática de salud de los niños y niñas colombianas
Se presenta un acercamiento a los problemas de salud de los niños y niñas colombianas, por medio del análisis de la información disponible, la cual no necesariamente refleja las diferencias y desigualdades entre los ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Revista de Salud Pública. -
Enfermedad de chagas: 90 años después
En 1999 se cumplen 90 años del descubrimiento de la Enfermedad de Chagas, que marcó un hito en la historia de la medicina de América Latina y del mundo ya que Carlos Chagas tuvo el mérito de haber descubierto el agente ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Revista de Salud Pública. -
Social security and health in colombia. current status of the reform
In this paper, an integral conception of social security within the socio-economic context of globalization and its political implications for developing societies is assumed. Although centered in the Colombian health ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Revista de Salud Pública. -
External causes of injury attended in the city network of emergency rooms during the christmas holidays, 1997-1998, bogotá
In order to establish the magnitude and distribution of external causes of injury in the city of Bogotá during the Christmas Holidays, a special surveillance system was implemented. The data show that there were, on average, ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Revista de Salud Pública. -
Effects of the social security reform in colombia on equity to access and use of health services
In order to evaluate the effects of the new health system upon the equity to access and use of the health services, two cross sections of the population were compared: before Law 100 of 1993, which created the General ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Revista de Salud Pública. -
Working conditions of odontology teaching staff at the national university of colombia
Both an objective and a subjective assessment of working conditions in three facilities of the National University of Colombia School of Odontology were carried out. With the adapted Lest method, employed for the objective ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Revista de Salud Pública. -
Sociocultural and epidemiological characterization of a focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis in cimitarra, santander
An epidemiological and sociocultural characterization regarding cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) as well as an active case search were carried out in the village of Filo de Chontarales in the town of Cimitarra, department of ...Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN Revista de Salud Pública.