[Systematization of a comprehensive intervention for strengthening the COVID-19 medical care].

The COVID-19 pandemic established a new challenge for health services in Mexico, which is why these services faced the challenge of responding to the affected people, by providing them services with opportunity, efficiency, effectiveness and safety. The Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS, Mexican Institute for Social Security) gave medical attention to the larger number of affected people: towards the end of September, 2022, 3,335,552 patients were registered, who represented 47% of the total (7,089,209) of confirmed COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. Of all the cases treated, 295,065 (8.

[Integrated Care Protocol: Chronic complications of diabetes mellitus 2].

Background: According to the International Diabetes Federation, 18% of Mexican adults live with diabetes and it is expected that by 2030 it will occupy the seventh place in the world in number of cases. In the population covered by the Mexican Institute of Social Security, diabetes is the second cause of mortality, years lost due to premature death, years lived with disability and years of healthy life lost, placing it as one of the costliest diseases.

Objective: Address in a timely and integrated manner chronic complications of type 2 diabetes mellitus, by implementing coordinated actions by multidisciplinary health team in the 3 levels of care.

[Integrated Care Protocol: Prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diabetes mellitus 2].

Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) represents one of the ten non- transmissible chronic diseases that constitute the main causes of death and disability in Mexico. It is the leading cause of disability and the second cause of death. The IMSS serves 4.

[Social inequality in the use of screening tests in Mexico: an analysis of the national health surveys 2006 and 2012].

Objective: To measure health inequality in the use of screen-ing services in adults from 20 to 59 years of age from the 2006 and 2012 national health and nutrition surveys.

Materials And Methods: dults (detection of diabetes, hypertension, breast cancer, cervical cancer and prostate cancer), the Kuznets index, the slope inequality index and the health concentration index were estimated. Considering as social indicators schooling, ethnicity, unemployment, socioeconomic level and type of health protection.

Quality of care for children with upper respiratory infections at Mexican family medicine clinics.

Background: Upper respiratory infections are the principal cause of morbidity in children <5 years of age. The objectives of this study were (i) to develop quality-of-care indicators for evaluation of care for children with upper respiratory infections (URI) at the primary care level using data from the electronic health records and (ii) to evaluate the quality of URI care offered to children <5 years of age at family medicine clinics (FMCs).

Methods: Development of indicators following the RAND-UCLA method was used.