Impact of an enhanced sobriety checkpoints programme and publicity campaign on motor vehicle collisions, injuries and deaths in Leon, MX: a synthetic control study.

Objective: Drunk driving is a major cause of road traffic injuries and deaths in Latin America. We evaluated the impact of a drunk driving intervention in Leon, Mexico on road traffic safety.

Methods: The intervention included increased drunk driving penalties, enhanced sobriety checkpoints and a young adult-focused mass media campaign, beginning 19 December 2018.

Binge drinking associated with mean temperature: a cross-sectional study among Mexican adults living in cities.

Background: The association between environmental temperature and alcohol consumption has not been widely explored despite the potential that increasing temperatures could promote the consumption of alcoholic beverages and the alcohol-related burden of disease. We aimed to explore the association between temperature and binge drinking in Mexican adults from urban cities, overall, and by alcoholic beverage type.

Methods: Data on 10,552 adults ≥ 18 years was obtained from the 2016 National Survey on Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Consumption.

One-year impact of a multicomponent, street-level design intervention in Mexico City on pedestrian crashes: a quasi-experimental study.

Background: Mexico City implemented the programme to prevent pedestrian injuries and deaths at dangerous road intersections, which included street-level design changes, such as visible pedestrian crossings, sidewalk widening, refuge islands, lane reductions, pedestrian signals and adjustment of traffic light timing at these intersections. Few studies in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) have evaluated the effect of such interventions on pedestrian safety.

Aim: Assess the effectiveness of the programme at reducing total, injury and fatal pedestrian-motor vehicle crashes.

Use of assessment scales, turnover and job strain in nursing staff: A study in a Colombian hospital.

Aim: To evaluate the association between job strain and socio-demographic characteristics, social support, job insecurity, use of patient assessment scales, and turnover of nursing staff in a Colombian hospital.

Background: Nursing is an occupation with high probability of job strain. Use of patient assessment scales and turnover of nursing staff could increase exposure to psychosocial risk.

Dietary patterns in Mexican children and adolescents: Characterization and relation with socioeconomic and home environment factors.

Background: Eating habits in children and adolescents are influenced by multiple determinants, which include socioeconomic and home environmental factors.

Objective: To characterize the dietary patterns in Mexican children and adolescents and to assess its association with socioeconomic and home environmental factors.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 878 children and adolescents aged 5-15 years, unrelated, selected randomly from Morelos Sports Unit at north of Mexico City.

Individual and climate factors associated with acute respiratory infection in Colombian children.

The objective of this study was to examine the association between acute respiratory infection recall (ARI-recall) and individual and environmental factors such as climate, precipitation, and altitude above sea level in Colombian children. A secondary analysis of 11,483 Colombian children, whose mothers were interviewed in the 2010 National Demographic and Health Survey, was carried out. The outcome variable was the mother's or caregiver's ARI-recall.

Generation and evaluation of an indicator of the health system's performance in maternal and reproductive health in Colombia: An ecological study.

Objective: To generate and evaluate an indicator of the health system's performance in the area of maternal and reproductive health in Colombia.

Materials And Methods: An indicator was constructed based on variables related to the coverage and utilization of healthcare services for pregnant and reproductive-age women. A factor analysis was performed using a polychoric correlation matrix and the states were classified according to the indicator's score.

Maternal mortality in Colombia in 2011: a two level ecological study.

Objective: Maternal mortality reduction is a Millennium Development Goal. In Colombia, there is a large disparity in the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) between and into departments (states) and also between municipalities. We examined socioeconomics variables at the municipal and departmental levels which could be associated to the municipal maternal mortality in Colombia.

Exploratory wavelet analysis of dengue seasonal patterns in Colombia.

Introduction: Dengue has a seasonal behavior associated with climatic changes, vector cycles, circulating serotypes, and population dynamics. The wavelet analysis makes it possible to separate a very long time series into calendar time and periods. This is the first time this technique is used in an exploratory manner to model the behavior of dengue in Colombia.

Leisure-time physical activity and cardiometabolic risk among children and adolescents.

Objective: To assess the effect of Leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) on cardiometabolic risk by nutritional status in Mexican children and adolescents.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted with 1,309 participants aged between 5 and 17 years. Nutritional status was classified according to the BMI Z-score by age and gender.

[Tobacco control: an intersectorial experience in Tunja (Colombia)].

Tobacco control in Colombia is regulated by Law 1335 of 2009. The implementation and monitoring of the provisions of this law require strengthening of intersectorial work at the local level. This field note presents an intersectorial work experience that was carried out in the municipality of Tunja (Colombia) to improve tobacco control.