[Experience of women who request voluntary abortion: relationship with their health care environment].

Objective: To describe women's perception of health care after they decided to have a voluntary termination of pregnancy and their referral to the abortion clinic.

Design: Qualitative method, using semi-structured interviews carried out between April and June 2005.

Setting: Primary Health Care District of Seville, Spain.

[Practical lessons from the risk management of an outbreak of acute gastroenteritis in a public school].

We present our reflections on the management of an acute gastroenteritis outbreak in a public school, which caused a public health crisis, and the conclusions drawn from this experience. The methodology of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis was used. This article describes the epidemiology of the incident and the policy decisions made, but focuses on operational aspects of outbreak management.

[Opportunities for the 112 Emergency Service to collaborate in public health surveillance].

The Andalusian Regional Ministry of Health is implementing an Alert Integrated System (SIA) in order to improve the health protection of the population by means of the appropriate response to the sanitary alerts. <> is a service aimed both to catastrophic situations and to the other ones needing intervention and multisectorial coordination. Theses functions make possible their collaboration with the SIA, furnishing it with information about a series of environmental incidents.