Interpersonal Violence and Maxillofacial Injuries: Toward an Active Surveillance Proposal Through the Presentation Profile in Hospital Emergency Services.

To establish a set of variables that define a predictive profile of events of maxillofacial trauma resulting from interpersonal violence, we analyzed sociodemographic variables and clinical characteristics of injuries recorded in three tertiary care hospital centers in Chile. To assess the relation between categories, we applied a multiple correspondence analysis. We identified 567 cases.

Development of a small panel of SNPs to infer ancestry in Chileans that distinguishes Aymara and Mapuche components.

Background: Current South American populations trace their origins mainly to three continental ancestries, i.e. European, Amerindian and African.

[Proposing a data mining scaffolding for preventing harmful alcohol consumption in Chilean adolescents].

Background: Adolescent alcohol and drug consumption are important public health problems in the Chilean young population.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to examine the potential ofa data mining approach in scaffolding policy making, using the particular case of differential risks of harmful alcohol consumption in adolescent students.

Material And Methods: Index and control groups were composed by 7918 and 7138 participants respectively (drawn from a CONACE survey 2009), aged 16 ± 2 years, 52% mole.

[Prevalence of drug abuse among children in basic schools].

Background: Peer methodology (PM) is an adaptation of the privileged access interviewer methodology and is used for prevalence studies. PM estimates higher drug consumption frequencies among school and college students than self reports, since it minimizes underreporting.

Aim: To assess drug abuse among students using PM.