[A clarification of the abortion laws in Spain].
Published in Boletin de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana. Pan American Sanitary Bureau
[The decentralization and municipalization of health services in Säo Paulo, Brazil].
Published in Boletin de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana. Pan American Sanitary Bureau
The health system in Brazil has undergone profound changes since the 1980s. In the state of São Paulo, the processes of decentralization to the municipio and regional levels, as well as integration of health services, began in 1983. This study describes the strategies adopted by the Ministry of Health of the state of São Paulo to implement these pr...
[Hemotherapy and transfusional Chagas' disease in Brazil].
Published in Boletin de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana. Pan American Sanitary Bureau
With the increased presence of Chagas' disease in urban areas and the rising importance of transfusional transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi, a proper and realistic approach to hemotherapeutic treatment has become crucial in Brazil. Bringing together data from various institutions, this study analyzed hemotherapy and the problem of transfusional Chag...
[AIDS, HIV infection and tuberculosis: their association and impact in the Dominican Republic].
Published in Boletin de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana. Pan American Sanitary Bureau
[The first 13 years of controlling Chagas' disease in Mambaí, Goiás, Brazil 1980-1992].
Published in Boletin de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana. Pan American Sanitary Bureau
The Mambaí Project was launched in 1980 for the purpose of making a longitudinal clinical-epidemiologic study of Chagas' disease and of serving as a pilot program for the Ministry of Health of Brazil. At the beginning of the project, a census was carried out, the housing units were evaluated, and clinical examination and laboratory tests were perfo...
[The fundamentals for a new program on AIDS].
Published in Boletin de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana. Pan American Sanitary Bureau
[Community educational interventions against inappropriate drug use].
Published in Boletin de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana. Pan American Sanitary Bureau
In the present study, which was carried out in peri-urban areas of Lima and Chimbote, Peru, and La Paz, Bolivia, the household survey method was used to investigate the manner in which drugs are used in treating the most common diseases in each locality. The objectives were to detect inappropriate practices, correct them through educational interve...
[Reproductive variables and risk of breast cancer: a case-control study carried out in Brazil].
Published in Boletin de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana. Pan American Sanitary Bureau
The purposes of the study were to identify reproductive risk factors for breast cancer and to test the hypothesis that reproductive variables operate through a common factor: the number of times that the mammary tissue has been exposed to the endocrine changes of the ovulatory cycle. The study was conducted in Campinas, and was based on interviews ...
[The hippocratic oath: a blind veneration?].
Published in Boletin de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana. Pan American Sanitary Bureau
It has been suggested that the Hippocratic oath is no longer relevant in the context of modern morals and current medical practice and that it continues to be administered simply out of blind adherence to tradition. Such judgments may be the result of too superficial an analysis of the oath. The substance of the oath is its ethical content, while t...
[Maternal factors associated with the duration of breast-feeding in peripheral areas of Guadalajara, Mexico].
Published in Boletin de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana. Pan American Sanitary Bureau
The aim of the present study is to determine the duration of breast-feeding by mothers covered by the Mexican Social Security Institute and living in Tlaquepaque and Tonalá, outlying areas of the city of Guadalajara, Mexico; to identify possible maternal factors associated with early weaning; and to consider the social importance of this phenomenon...
