[The risk and vulnerability of health care workers to the COVID-19 pandemic].

Objective: To analyze the categories of risk and vulnerability based on the experience of health professionals who attended SARS-CoV-2.

Design: Exploratory research. It was developed in different phases during 2020-2021, using concurrent mixed methods and pursuing multiple objectives.

Local Health Service Response to COVID-19 in Mexico: Notes From an Exploratory Qualitative Study.

Background: The main goal of a health system is to maintain or improve people's health. The COVID-19 pandemic showed the fragility of health systems worldwide. In Mexico, the pandemic affected the performance of the health system, along with the presence of contextual conditions such as its segmentation and high prevalence of chronic diseases.

Local health systems resilience in managing the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from Mexico.

The concept of resilience was applied to the public health field to investigate the way health systems are impacted by health crises, what conditions allow them to mitigate the blow and how they reorganize once the crisis is over. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus represented a global challenge demanding immediate response to an unprecedented health crisis. Various voices drew attention to the intensity of the crisis in countries with greater inequalities, where the pandemic converged with other social emergencies.

Clinical and sociodemographic characterization of pregnant women hospitalized with COVID-19.

Introduction: In pregnant women, a higher risk for developing viral respiratory infections is identified.

Objective: To analyze sociodemographic characteristics, evolution, clinical manifestations, and complications of pregnant women hospitalized with COVID-19.

Methods: Study conducted at 11 public hospitals; sociodemographic variables, comorbidities, signs and symptoms, laboratory and imaging findings, pregnancy characteristics, treatment and pregnancy outcome were included for analysis.

An overview on the promotion on patient-centered care and shared decision-making in Mexico.

Mexico is a mid-income North American country. It strives to materialize the right to health in accordance with its laws. But the health system faces various problems: fragmentation, segmentation, limited funding, insufficient coverage, and low quality of health care.

[Impact of harmful consumption of alcohol in accident-related mortality and chronic diseases in Mexico].

Objective: To analyze alcohol consumption, and its impact on road traffic-related mortality and chronic diseases.

Materials And Methods: Through the analysis of national health surveys, registry of traffic collisions, mortality records and economic surveys, we estimated prevalence, mortality and consumption indicators.

Results: Between 2000 and 2012, alcohol consumption in adolescents remained stable, with a significant increase among adults.

[Tobacco consumption, mortality and fiscal policy in Mexico].

Objective: To analyze tobacco consumption in the last 12 years, its impact on chronic diseases mortality and the potential benefits of fiscal policy in Mexico.

Materials And Methods: Through the analysis of national health surveys (ENSA, ENSANUT), records of mortality and economic surveys between 2000 and 2012, smoking prevalence, chronic diseases mortality and consumption were estimated.

Results: In 2012, 9.