Self-efficacy and Social Settings Matter for Fostering Healthy Eating in Mexican Schoolchildren.

Objective: To identify differences in schoolchildren's self-efficacy for eating behaviors across social settings and self-efficacy sources favoring healthy and unhealthy eating.

Design: A cross-sectional, mixed-methods study using self-efficacy and demographic surveys, focus groups, and school environment semistructured observations.

Setting: Morelos, Mexico, Cuernavaca City school district, public elementary schools in the National School Lunch Program.

Perceptions of childcare staff for preventing overweight in Mexican preschool children: A SWOT analysis.

Objective: To identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) perceived by childcare staff for preventing childhood overweight.

Material And Methods: Qualitative study using an interpretative phenomenological approach; 18 in-depth, semi-structured interviews and 12 focus groups with 89 key informants working in six Mexican public childcare centers (CCC) were conducted. Through content and SWOT analyses, experts further ranked fifty-nine recurrent perceptions regarding healthy feeding and physical activity (PA), using the Delphi method.

Prevalence and factors associated with violence and abuse of older adults in Mexico's 2012 National Health and Nutrition Survey.

Background: Factors associated with violence and the abuse of older adults are understudied and its prevalence in Mexico has not been reported. The aim of this study was to identify the prevalence and factors associated with violence and abuse of older adults in Mexico.

Methods: We used Mexico's 2012 National Health and Nutrition Survey, which included a sample of 8,894 individuals who are 60 years or older and who self-reported a negative health event related to robbery, aggression or violence in the previous 12 months.

Public health services and their relationship with rapid HIV test utilization and access for key populations in Morelos, Mexico.

Objective: In 2009, 4 749 rapid HIV tests were run in Morelos, Mexico, despite lacking evidence on their results. This article seeks to analyze how public health organization relates to utility of rapid HIV test among healthcare users.

Materials And Methods: Joint study: comparison of differences in applied test and positive results for each group with the Bonferroni statistical tool, observational study in 34 health subsystems, and 11 interviews with public healthcare users.

[Human resources for health in the context of the reform of the health system in Mexico: professional training and labor market].

The role that human resources for health should play in future stages of the Mexican Health System reform is discussed. The following dimensions are considered to guide the discussion: the orientation of training, the institutions responsible for training, the mechanisms to link graduates to health institutions and the ways health workers should respond to the current managerial modifications. Changes should be based on a pre-defined strategic planning exercise based on institutional agreements which allow defining common objectives as well as clear procedures to attain those objectives.

[Predominant organizational culture in nursing at a public hospital. Morelos, Mexico].

Objective: To identify dominant and preferred organizational culture models at second level nursing services in Morelos.

Material And Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted between April and June, 2008. Nursing caregivers from Public Health Services of Morelos State participated.