Characterization of workers covered by a risk insurance company in Colombia who suffered amputation.

Background: Scarcity of information on the sociodemographic, occupational and clinical characteristics of workers who suffer upper limb amputation hinders planning and implementing actions to improve their living and working conditions.

Objective: To investigate the sociodemographic, occupational and clinical characteristics of workers covered by a risk insurance company in Colombia who suffered upper limb amputations and investigate their association with risk categories.

Methods: Exploratory, descriptive, retrospective and analytical study of data relative to workers covered by a risk insurance company in Colombia who suffered upper limb amputation in the period from 1982 and 2017.

[Trends in pertussis mortality and morbidity in Colombia, 2002-2012].

Whooping cough is a public health problem that mainly affects children under one year of age with highly lethal outcomes. It is a re-emerging disease, which is preventable by immunization. Objective: To analyze mortality and morbidity trends of whooping cough in Colombia between 2002 and 2012.

[Contextual effects associated with depression risk variability in the elderly, Antioquia, Colombia, 2012].

Introduction: Depression is an affective disorder where interest in living is lost and functional areas like work, feelings, personal life, and relationships are negatively altered. However, little has been said about the association between place of residence and this mood disorder.

Objective: To determine the effects of the municipality and block of residence on the depression risk variability in the elderly in the Department of Antioquia, Colombia, in 2012.

[Trends in yellow fever mortality in Colombia, 1998-2009].

Introduction: Yellow fever is a neglected tropical disease, thus, knowing the trends in mortality from this disease in Colombia is an important source of information for decision making and identifying public health interventions.

Objective: To analyze trends in yellow fever mortality in Colombia during the 1998-2009 period and the differences in the morbidity and mortality information sources for the country, which affect indicators such as the lethality one.

Materials And Methods: This is a descriptive study of deaths by yellow fever according to the Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística and the incidence of the disease according to the Instituto Nacional de Salud .