[Screening for posttraumatic stress disorder in people affected by the 2010 earthquake in Chile.].

The authors conducted an assessment of post-traumatic stress disorder screening in the Chilean population following the February 2010 earthquake, based on the Post Earthquake Survey with a multistage sample of 24,982 individuals over 18 years of age, applying the Davidson Trauma Scale. Multivariate analysis was performed with significance set at p<0.05.

[Psychoactive substance use in two regions of Argentina and its relationship to poverty].

Data were analyzed from the National Survey on Substance Use (ENPreCoSP-2.008) in 6,122 cases to estimate the prevalence of psychoactive substance use and assess the association between unmet basic needs (UBN) and family income and the consumption of psychoactive substances by individuals 18-34 years of age in 10 provinces in Northern Argentina. The study conducted descriptive statistical analysis and logistic regression.

[Evaluation of optional module "introduction to family medicine" from the medicine student's opinion].

With the purpose of assessing the current program and to adequate its activities to the students' needs, we perform periodical evaluations based on the opinions of the participants involved. During 2002, a new academic plan was implemented for the optional Module "Introduction to Family Medicine", destined to generate professional abilities according to the postulates of the biopsychosocial paradigm. The objective of this study is to evaluate de development of this new academic proposal.

[Epidemiology of rheumatic diseases: a study over the morbility prevalence].

The Rheumatic Diseases are a problems of public health than greater attention they require of the sanitary authorities of many countries. The absence in Córdoba Argentina, of investigations to know the magnitude of this problem, they motivated this work. The objective of this work it was to know the frequency with which these illnesses they are perceived for the population in Córdoba, Argentina.