Publications by authors named "Hector Garcia-Hernandez"

Background: Information about access to the public health system for elders is lacking in Mexico.

Objective: Develop a cascade of access to the public health system in Mexican older adults and identify factors that could promote or hinder it.

Material And Methods: A cross-sectional analysis using data from the 2018, 2021, and 2022 National Health and Nutrition Survey rounds.

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In this study, cow manure was hydrothermally treated in a 2-litre reactor for 1 h at temperatures between 100 °C and 260 °C. Both the raw manure and the solid and liquid products of the hydrothermal treatment were characterized to understand the fate of the inorganic elements and to assess the suitability of the products for land applications and energy recovery. Satisfactory elemental balances were obtained for the organic and most inorganic elements and indicated that most inorganic elements were incorporated into the solids with lower solubility, with the exception of potassium and sodium, which were mostly solubilized in the process water; calcium and chlorine were also solubilized to a lesser extent in the process water.

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Objective: To analyze the association of changes in social security (SS) continuity and mortality, using the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) in people aged 60 years and more.

Materials And Methods: Retrospective cohort. We analyzed the SS continuity condition -classified as stable, unstable with SS, unstable without SS, and without SS- and its relation with mortality; a probit regression model was utilized to obtain marginal effects, taking into consideration covariates related to mortality.

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National vaccination programmes recommend the influenza vaccine for older adults, but this population group has the greatest morbidity and mortality from other preventable vaccine diseases. The aim of this article is to estimate the vaccine coverage in adults aged 65 years and older and to analyse the factors that could increase or decrease vaccination uptake probability for the three listed vaccines in the national vaccination programme (influenza, tetanus and diphtheria, and pneumococcus) and the full scheme in Mexico. We conducted an analytical cross-sectional study with 2012, 2018, and 2021 rounds from the National Health and Nutrition Survey, in which we calculated the vaccine coverage estimations and performed multivariable logistic regression models to analyse the factors related to vaccine uptake.

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Digestate is a rich source of nutrients that can be applied in agricultural fields as fertilizer or irrigation water. However, most of the research about application of digestate have focused on its agronomic properties and neglected the potential harm of the presence of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs). Aadvanced oxidation processes (AOPs) have proved to be effective for removing these compounds from drinking water, yet there are some constrains to treat wastewater and digestate mainly due to their complex matrix.

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Research on ageing has developed since Greek times. It had a very slow advance during the Middle Ages and a big increase in the Renaissance. Darwin contributed somehow to the understanding of the ageing process and initiated a cumulus of ageing explications under the name of Evolutionary Theories.

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Background: The backbone of food allergy treatment is the restriction of causative foods. These interventions have shown that children who restrict the consumption of basic foods have a higher risk of malnutrition. The aim of the study was to identify the nutritional status of patients with elimination diet, characterizing their anthropometric indexes and identifying the percentage of patients in the group with true food allergies.

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Background: Birth without medical assistance, or outs hospitals is defined as one that occurs without the optimal medical and health care conditions for mother and son pairing. Frequency of this phenomenon is not known in Mexico.

Objective: To observe clinical outcomes, morbidity, mortality, epidemiological and geographical patterns.

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