Social Inequalities in Mental Health and Self-Perceived Health in the First Wave of COVID-19 Lockdown in Latin America and Spain: Results of an Online Observational Study.

COVID-19 lockdowns greatly affected the mental health of populations and collectives. This study compares the mental health and self-perceived health in five countries of Latin America and Spain, during the first wave of COVID 19 lockdown, according to social axes of inequality. This was a cross-sectional study using an online, self-managed survey in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Spain.

[Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on self-perceived health in Chile by gender].

Objective: To analyse the social factors associated with self-perceived health during the COVID-19 lockdown in the Chilean resident population according to gender perspective.

Method: Cross-sectional study conducted during the COVID-19 lockdown between May 17 and August 17, 2020 with an online survey. Self-perceived health was analysed in the population aged 18 years or older in relation to social variables.

Infant Mortality in the Metropolitan Region, Chile 2005-2014.

Introduction: Infant mortality depends on the economic, social, and cultural level of development of the place of residence.

Objective: To describe the infant mortality rates (IMR) and the late infant mortality rates (LIMR) of the Metropolitan Region (MR) communes and to evaluate their trend between 2005 and 2014.

Material And Method: Ecological study that describes the rates of the 52 communes of the MR.

[Deaths due to oral cancer in Chile in the period 2002-2012].

Background: Oral cancer is the 15th most common cause of cancer death in the world. In Chile, 1% of all cancer deaths are related to oral and pharyngeal cancer.

Aim: To determine mortality rates for oral cancer in Chile and its regions between 2002-2012.

Factors associated with the non-completion of conventional anti-tuberculosis treatment in Peru.

Background: The non-adherence to tuberculosis treatment is associated with increased infection, antibiotic resistance, increased costs and death. Our objective was to identify factors associated with lack of completion of conventional treatment for tuberculosis in Peru.

Patients And Methods: An unmatched case-control study in patients diagnosed with tuberculosis from 2004-2005 who completed treatment until September 2006.

[Salmonella's transmission from turtle to child: public health nursing experience about a new case].

Salmonellosis is usually related to food poisoning however other possible causes such as reptile exposure are often unrecognised. The aim of this study is to describe a case of salmonella infection related to pet exposure. After a salmonella infection in an eleven month old baby was reported to our public health agency, an epidemiological investigation took place.

Pulmonary tuberculosis infection among workers in the informal public transport sector in Lima, Peru.

Background: Because a strong association was observed between pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) and the use of public transport, increasing with duration of journey, a study was carried out to assess infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and working conditions among workers in this sector.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted between June and September 2008. A total of 104 workers from two public transport minibus ('combi') cooperatives covering marginal areas of the Ate-Vitarte district in Lima were interviewed.

Risk of tuberculosis in public transport sector workers, Lima, Peru.

Setting: Delays from symptom onset to the diagnosis and treatment of smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) produces possible new cases in persons in close contact with TB cases, especially in confined spaces such as overcrowded public transport, which puts other users and transport workers at risk.

Objective: To estimate TB incidence rates in patients of a health micro-network, and the percentage of transport sector workers among TB and multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) patients.

Design: Crude and indirect standardised incidence rates of TB were calculated from an exhaustive analysis of all clinical histories of incident patients in a health micro-network between 1 January 2007 and 30 June 2008.

Public transportation and pulmonary tuberculosis, Lima, Peru.

The association between public transportation for commuting and pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) was analyzed in workers in Lima, Peru. Traveling in minibuses was a risk factor for pulmonary TB. Preventive measures need to be taken by health services to prevent spread of this disease.