Risk perception increase due to COVID-19 impacted antenatal care utilization among women in an indigenous community.

Background: Risk perception varies greatly among individuals, affecting their behavior and decision-making in risky situations. The COVID-19 pandemic affected worldwide, but the role of risk perception related to COVID-19 in ethnic minorities in Mexico is unclear. This study quantifies the impact of COVID-related risk perception (susceptibility and severity) and perceived fear on the utilization of antenatal care services among indigenous women in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.

Elder Abuse and Depressive Symptoms: The Mediating Role of Loneliness in Older Adults.

Background: Elder abuse (EA), depressive symptoms, and loneliness represent a growing risk to the health, well-being, and premature mortality of older adults. However, the role of loneliness in the relationship between EA and depressive symptoms has not yet been examined.

Aims: To investigate the associations between these constructs and to explore the possible mediating role of loneliness in the relationship between EA and depressive symptoms in a representative sample of older Mexican people.

Reduction in contraceptive use during the COVID-19 pandemic among women in an indigenous Mexican community: a retrospective crossover study.

Background: Being indigenous, being a woman, and living in poverty are social determinants that contribute to reduced access to healthcare, including reproductive health services. The COVID-19 pandemic might have exacerbated this lag.

Objective: This study explored how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the contraceptive use of a group of indigenous Mexican women and adolescents in their community.

Sociodemographic and Personal Predictors of Exclusive Breastfeeding in Pregnant Mexican Women Using Public Health Services.

Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) is a cost-effective healthy behavior for the mother-child dyad. Globally, rates of EBF are low. Little research has been conducted on the joint role of modifiable and nonmodifiable variables in pregnant women's decision-making.

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La creciente epidemia de obesidad ha sido uno de los retos más importantes de salud pública en México durante los últimos años. Con apoyo de la Federación Mundial de Obesidad, en 2021 formamos un grupo de profesionales para identificar y resumir las acciones prioritarias en las que puede enfocarse nuestro país para hacer frente a esta epidemia. Al proceso de desarrollo y discusión de este grupo se sumaron más de 1 000 profesionales de la salud para retomar recomendaciones de documentos y guías de alto nivel previamente publicados.

The utility of the Edmonton Obesity Staging System for the prediction of COVID-19 outcomes: a multi-centre study.

Background: Patients with obesity have an increased risk for adverse COVID-19 outcomes. Body mass index (BMI) does not acknowledge the health burden associated this disease. The performance of the Edmonton Obesity Staging System (EOSS), a clinical classification tool that assesses obesity-related comorbidity, is compared with BMI, with respect to adverse COVID-19 outcomes.

Sociodemographic and Clinical Factors Associated with Severe Obesity in Adults.

Background: In the last decades, obesity in general, including severe obesity (BMI ≥40 kg/m), has increased disproportionately around the world, especially in low-income and lower-middle income regions.

Aims: To analyze sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of people with severe obesity in Mexico, as well as their associated factors.

Methods: A secondary analysis was carried out from the 2018-19 National Health and Nutrition Survey.

Health care trajectories and barriers to treatment for patients with end-stage renal disease without health insurance in Mexico: a mixed methods approach.

Background: Mexico has the sixth-highest premature death rate from chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the world. From 1990 to 2017, the age-standardized CKD mortality rate jumped from 28.7 to 58.

Overview of the burden of chronic kidney disease in Mexico: secondary data analysis based on the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.

Objective: To describe the evolution of the burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in Mexico by states, sex and subtypes from 1990 to 2017.

Design: Secondary data analysis based on the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2017.

Participants: Mexico and its 32 states.

An anthropometry-based equation of fat mass percentage as a valid discriminator of obesity.

Objective: To develop a new predictive equation for fat mass percentage (%FM) based on anthropometric measurements and to assess its ability to discriminate between obese and non-obese individuals.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Mexican adults.

[A front-of-pack labelling system for food and beverages for Mexico: a strategy of healthy decision-making.].

The Mexican Ministry of Health requested the National Institute of Public Health to constitute a group of independent, free of conflict-of-interest academic experts on front-of-pack labelling (FOP). This group was instructed to created a positioning paper to contribute to the development of a FOP system for industrialized products that offers useful information for purchase decision making. This position paper uses the best available scientific evidence, and recommendations from experts of international organizations.

Seroprevalence of dengue in school children in Mexico ages 6-17 years, 2016.

Background: Dengue is the most important arboviral disease in the world. Seroprevalence has been proposed as a marker of endemicity, however, studies are scarce.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional, stratified cluster, random sample study to measure the seroprevalence of antibodies to dengue virus (DENV) in Mexico.

Stature in adults as an indicator of socioeconomic inequalities in Mexico.

Objective: To estimate the association between stature in Mexican adults and some sociodemographic factors.

Methods: We studied a sample of 30 970 subjects, using anthropometric data from the 2012 National Health and Nutrition Survey (ENSANUT 2012). The first quartile was used as the cutoff to define short stature.

[Some observations on high specialty medical care in Mexico].

Objectives: To put forth the concept of highly specialized medical care, in agreement with the nature of its practice, and evaluate the feasibility of creating a support service network.

Methods: Qualitative study of the current practice and requirements for 39 selected medical specialties, using the technique of focused groups of experts in each specialty. In accordance with the "Grounded Theory", variables were systematized and categorized and then compared in order to identify relationships between categories and link them to consensus testimonial references.

[The diagnosis of chronic kidney disease as a tracer of the technical capacity in care facilities of 20 Mexican states].

Objective: To assess knowledge and technical capacity of primary care physicians in the management of patients with diabetes mellitus and high blood pressure as well as patients at risk of developing chronic kidney disease, and to use the latter condition as a tracer of the quality of primary care of the Mexican health system.

Material And Methods: A cross-sectional study included 149 primary health physicians in primary care units from state health care services in 20 states. An instrument with two clinical cases was applied.

[An evaluation of the characteristics, processes and outcomes of hemodialysis units in Mexico].

Objective: To evaluate the characteristics, processes, outcomes and structure of a sample of hemodialysis units (HU) in Mexico.

Material And Methods: Cross-sectional study in 83 public and private HU from the 32 states in Mexico. The HU were stratified, according to a score, in five categories: very good, good, regular, poor and very poor.