Strengthening Essential Health Services Recovery Policy after the COVID-19 Pandemic. Evidence from the Mexican Institute of Social Security.

Aim: To evaluate the progress of the Mexican Institute of Social Security Recovery Policy (IMSS-RP) in addressing the decline in essential health services caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: We analyzed eleven indicators of essential health services from 35 IMSS state delegations. The assessment included ambulatory and hospital care indicators such as breast and cervical cancer screening, family medicine, dental and specialty visits, diabetes and hypertension visits and health outcomes, deliveries, and elective surgeries.

SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5 dominated the fifth COVID-19 epidemiological wave in Mexico.

In Mexico, the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron variants dominated the fifth epidemic wave (summer 2022), superseding BA.

[Renoprotection. About World Kidney Day].

The World Kidney Day was founded in 2003 by doctor Joel D. Kopple, American nephrologist, who in the session in the Congress of the International Federation of Kidney Foundations explained the need to implement the celebration on a day that alludes to this organ, in order to direct preventive actions for kidney disease and raise awareness in the medical community and the general population on the importance of caring for the kidneys. 3 years later, the proposal was accepted and as of 2006 World Kidney Day is celebrated.

A Geospatial Model to Identify Areas Associated with Late- Stage Breast Cancer: A Spatial Epidemiology Approach.

Objective: The aim of this study was to show how a geospatial model can be used to identify areas with a higher probability for late-stage breast cancer (BC) diagnoses.

Methods: Our study considered an ecological design. Clinical records at a tertiary care hospital were reviewed in order to obtain the place of residence and stage of the disease, which was classified as early (0-IIA) and late (IIB-IV) and whose diagnoses were made during the 2013-2017 period.

[Systematization of a comprehensive intervention for strengthening the COVID-19 medical care].

The COVID-19 pandemic established a new challenge for health services in Mexico, which is why these services faced the challenge of responding to the affected people, by providing them services with opportunity, efficiency, effectiveness and safety. The Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS, Mexican Institute for Social Security) gave medical attention to the larger number of affected people: towards the end of September, 2022, 3,335,552 patients were registered, who represented 47% of the total (7,089,209) of confirmed COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. Of all the cases treated, 295,065 (8.

[PRIISMA Project: Transformation into a more preventive, resilient, comprehensive, innovative, sustainable, modern and accessible IMSS].

Two years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mexican Institute for Social Security (IMSS, according to its initials in Spanish) rethought new projects focused on the new needs of the population and social security organizations and institutions. The Institute, as a cornerstone in the search for the wellbeing of Mexicans, aligned with the National Development Plan and the Strategic Health for Wellbeing Program, sought to direct its transformation towards a preventive, resilient, comprehensive, innovative, sustainable, modern and accessible IMSS. For this reason, the Medical Services Director designed the PRIISMA Project, as the one that over the next three years could make possible to innovate and improve its medical care processes, starting with the recovery of medical services and identifying those groups of beneficiaries who experience the most vulnerable circumstances.

[Infarction Code care protocol, towards the federalization of IMSS Bienestar].

Since 2015, the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) has developed and implemented the Infarct Code emergency care protocol, with the aim of improving the diagnosis and treatment of acute myocardial infarction and thus eventually reducing mortality. In the context of the federalization and implementation of the new IMSS Bienestar care model in several states, the possibility of increasing the coverage and extension of the protocol service networks is presented, not only to eligible population but also to those who do not have social security and resides in contexts of social marginalization, to comply with article 4o. constitutional.

[Behavior and demand patterns for medical consultations for Kidney Disease at the IMSS, 2011-2020].

Background: Mortality from Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) has increased particularly in the Americas, the trend of wich could also be observed in Mexico, mainly due to the magnitude that Diabetes Mellitus and Arterial Hypertension have reached as the main causal factors.

Objective: To examine the behavior and patterns associated with the demand for medical consultations for Kidney Disease (KD) in the IMSS during the period 2011-2020.

Material And Methods: According to the medical consultations for KD, general and adjusted rates were estimated by year and population assigned to first-level medical unit (UMF).

[Integrated Care Protocol: Hypertension].

Background: Hypertension is the most common cardiovascular risk factor that is responsible for complications such as cerebrovascular events, heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, kidney failure, arrhythmias and blindness. About 30% of the adult population older than 20 years is a carrier. 40% of carriers are unaware of suffering from it since its onset is generally asymptomatic.