Advancing Leadership Training to Address Health Equity and Respond to Public Health Emergencies.

Context: In 2015, Impactivo developed the Advancing Leadership in Times of Crisis (ALTC) program for the Region 2 Public Health Training Center under a subaward from the Health Resources and Services Administration. Puerto Rico's (PR) government had defaulted on its debt, and public health officials needed tools to face the fiscal crisis. The ALTC has since been adapted for PR's public health emergencies, including the Zika epidemic, category 5 hurricanes, earthquakes, and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Spectrum of CFTR gene mutations in Ecuadorian cystic fibrosis patients: the second report of the p.H609R mutation.

Background: High heterogeneity in the CFTR gene mutations disturbs the molecular diagnosis of cystic fibrosis (CF). In order to improve the diagnosis of CF in our country, the present study aims to define a panel of common CFTR gene mutations by sequencing 27 exons of the gene in Ecuadorian Cystic Fibrosis patients.

Methods: Forty-eight Ecuadorian individuals with suspected/confirmed CF diagnosis were included.

[Psychiatry and occupational diseases act in Chile: historical and critical review of a complex relationship].

The Work Accidents and Occupational Diseases Act exists in Chile since 1968. It uses a single model for the understanding and management of both somatic diseases like silicosis and psychiatric disorders. During the last decade in Chile, the consultation rates due to psychiatric conditions of probable labor origin has rose over 1,000%, a factor that underscored the deficiencies of this model.