(1) The objective of our study is to determine, from a primary care midwife’s perspective, which biopsychosocial factors can favour or be detrimental to exclusive breast feeding. (2) The study was carried out in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) and is based on qualitative methodology. Twenty in-dep...

Background: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is one of the most important parasitic diseases in the world. The domestic dog is the main reservoir of zoonotic VL and a high prevalence of canine leishmaniasis (CanL) is associated with transmission of infection to humans. Here we describe the methodology u...

Dating violence (DV) among adolescents is a public health issue because of its negative health consequences. In this study, we aimed to analyse the prevalence and the psychosocial and socioeconomic risk and protective factors associated DV among male and female adolescents in Europe. It was perform...

We assessed previous knowledge about the existence of HIV self-testing of stakeholders in Spain, as well as their personal position towards this methodology. We also assessed their views on potential users' (PU) opinions towards several key operational aspects surrounding self-testing, and compared...

Torture methods have traditionally been quantified using checklists. However, checklists fail to capture accurately both the almost infinite range of available methods of torture and the victims' subjective experience. The Torturing Environment Scale (TES) was designed as a multidimensional alterna...

Asymptomatic Leishmania infections outnumber clinical infections on the Indian subcontinent (ISC), where disease reservoirs are anthroponotic. Diagnostics which detect active asymptomatic infection, which are suitable for monitoring and surveillance, may be of benefit to the visceral leishmaniasis ...

The HAVISA plan is a Spanish government's policy for the promotion of healthy lifestyles via health messages in television food advertisements. This study evaluated the positive or negative impact (health halo effect) of health messages on food choices and predisposition towards healthy habits of S...

[EN] Childhood Obesity has become a Public Health priority due to it high prevalence and consequences in health status. To estimate prevalence of obesity in the children included in the National Health Survey of 2006-2007 and to determine its association with socioeconomic position and other soci...

[ES] Fundamentos: Pese a su gran ubicuidad y morbimortalidad, la evidencia científica sobre el control hospitalario de Acinetobacter baumanii multirresistente (ABMR) fuera de las Unidades de Cuidados Intensivos en España es escasa. El objetivo fue describir un brote epidémico por ABMR y analizar la...

Loop-mediated isothermal amplification allows the rapid, sensitive and specific amplification of DNA without complex and expensive equipment. We compared the diagnostic performance of Loopamp™ Leishmania Detection Kit (Eiken Chemical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) with conventional and real-time polymera...

Objectives To analyse temporal trends in SARS-CoV-2 anti-nucleocapsid IgG throughout the four rounds of the nationwide seroepidemiologic study ENE-COVID (April-November 2020), and to compare the fourth-round results of two immunoassays detecting antibodies against nucleocapsid and to S protein rece...

[ES] Presentamos la adaptación para España de la actualización de las Guías Europeas de Prevención Vascular. En esta actualización se hace mayor énfasis en el abordaje poblacional, especialmente en la promoción de la actividad física y de una dieta saludable mediante políticas alimentarias y de oci...

[ES]Desde finales del siglo XIX, fue posible luchar contra varias de las enfermedades víricas (rabia, viruela, gripe, polio, sarampión, rubéola y parotiditis), que, a lo largo del siglo XX, afectaron masivamente a la población adulta e infantil, a través de programas de vacu­nación que se estableci...

[ES] Objetivo: Describir las características sociodemográficas y la utilización de servicios sanitarios en la población inmigrante residente en un área sanitaria. Participantes: Población inmigrante regularizada o no que reside en el área de estudio. Emplazamiento: Área Sanitaria 6 de la Comu...

[ES] Objetivo Identificar los conocimientos, actitudes y percepciones que tiene la población latinoamericana de la Comunidad de Madrid sobre la tuberculosis, tras el alta hospitalaria. Diseño Estudio transversal. Emplazamiento Comunidad de Madrid. Participantes Población latinoamer...

[ES] El plan de salud del estado de Oregón en Estados Unidos representa el primer intento explícito y organizado a nivel comunitario de establecer la prioridad de los servicios sanitarios mediante un análisis sistemático de su coste-efectividad. La necesidad de afrontar problemas sanitarios comune...

[ES]Objetivo: Conocer los resultados del tratamiento antituberculoso entre la población inmigrante e identificar las variables asociadas a su abandono. Métodos: Estudio de cohortes prospectivo que incluye los casos de tuberculosis en población inmigrante, mayor de 15 años, diagnosticados en 15 hos...