[Response capacity to the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean].

Objective: To analyze the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin American and Caribbean countries in its first 90 days and its association with variables related to public health measures, and demographic, health and social characteristics.

Methods: he trend in new daily cases and the crude mortality rate (CMR) from COVID-19 were analyzed through the Joinpoint regression analysis methodology, using the Joinpoint Regression Program 4.8.

[Trends in mortality by assault in women in selected countries of Latin America, 2001-2011].

Objective: Describe the trend in deaths by assault in women in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico between 2001 and 2011.

Methods: Descriptive study. Mortality from assaults and undetermined intentional acts was calculated, adjusted for age, using the direct method and the World Health Organization's standard population.

Morbidity and mortality rates for childhood cancer in Argentina: 2006-2008.

Introduction: Childhood cancer is a serious public health problem in any country given the large number of years of life lost in an early manner.

Objective: To describe morbidity and mortality rates for cancer in Argentinean children and adolescents younger than 15 years old in the 2006-2008 three year period. Method.

[Inequities in health among Latin American and Caribbean countries (2005-2010)].

Objective: To identify health inequalities among Latin American and Caribbean countries in recent years (2005-2010), based on the view that measurement of inequalities is the first step in identifying health inequities.

Method: We performed an ecological study, whose units of analysis were 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries. These units were used to build the Inequalities in Health Index.

[Social risk factors for alcohol use among adolescents and youth].

This study examines the social risk and protection factors for excessive alcohol use, based on the data from the "National Survey on the prevalence of substance abuse in 2008", in a population of young Argentines, from 16 to 24 years of age. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were used. The following risk factors were observed: age at onset (the younger, the higher the risk); the Pampas region, Northwest and Northeast; males; from families with unsatisfied basic needs.