Development of the Health Atlas of Jalisco: A New Web-Based Service for the Ministry of Health and the Community in Mexico.

Background: Maps have been widely used to provide a visual representation of information of a geographic area. Health atlases are collections of maps related to conditions, infrastructure or services provided. Various countries have put resources towards producing health atlases that support health decision makers to enhance their services to the communities.

[Virtual Campus of Public Health: six years of human resources education in Mexico].

This paper discusses the gestation process, implementation methodology, and results obtained from the initiative to use e-learning to train human resources for health, six years after the launch of the Virtual Campus of Public Health of the University of Guadalajara (Mexico); the discussion is framed by Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) standards and practices. This is a special report on the work done by the institutional committee of the Virtual Campus in western Mexico to create an Internet portal that follows the guidelines of the strategic model established by Nodo México and PAHO for the Region of the Americas. This Virtual Campus began its activities in 2007, on the basis of the use of free software and institutional collaboration.

[Research in adolescence and youth at the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social].

Objective: to determine the proportions, types and research areas of studies on young people by the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) from 1997 to 2006.

Methods: we reviewed 4299 published summaries of health national forums sponsored by the IMSS.

Results: a total of 274 (6.