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This article tries to include the climatic factor to the set of variables that can explain the spread of the yellow fever epidemic of 1871 in Buenos Aires. To do this, it reconstructs the climatic conditions of the period and analyzes the reading that the medical community made on the climate-society-disease relationship. It is concluded that the climatic conditions of 1871 were elementary for the spread of the disease. The high thermal level, together with the percentage of humidity and the precipitations allowed the development of the vector mosquito. The sudden drop in temperature, together with the human habit of heating the house and the particularity of the Aedes Aegypti at home, allowed the disease to circulate despite the low temperatures. On the other hand, the consideration of climatic conditions as the etiology of the epidemic by medical hygienists, together with the large number of immigrant victims, revived both discussions about the problem of acclimatization of foreigners, as well as concerns about the future. of the "national race". The originality of the work lies in the fact that the climatic conditions, and the perceptions around it, as an object of study, have been little explored in the historiographical productions that dealt with the 1871 epidemic. Climatic statistics for the decade 1861-1871 were elaborated, in order to compare and identify the particularity of the atmospheric variability of the plague year. At the same time, meeting and disagreement points were established in various qualitative sources (medical theses, magazines, newspapers, brochures and stories from European travelers), with respect to the perception that their contemporaries had about the climatic influence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this review article is to determine, through a database, the level of the work climate of health personnel from public institutions in Latin America, generated through scientific publications from 2019 to 2022. The research is of descriptive quantitative character. A total of 1,069,976 articles found were obtained, leaving 12 articles through systematic purification as the final result. The results of this article show that, at the Latin American level, in eight of them (three from Mexico, two from Peru, two from Ecuador and one from Brazil) health professionals perceive an inadequate work environment, unlike the four remaining investigations (one from Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and Chile) that perceive an optimal work environment. And the factors that affect the work environment in health personnel as identified public servants are, in the first place, the remuneration factor, inadequate decision making, lack of leadership, lack of recognition and outstanding achievements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present work is inscribed within the field of contemporary migration studies in Chile, a line of investigation initiated during the nineties. At the time, various people from South America and the Caribbean arrived to the country, which was undergoing a democratic transition and presented itself as a successful economic model. Twenty-five years later, migrants from Haiti began arriving. Despite not constituting the largest group of migrants, they have become one of the most targeted by Chilean society, the media, the political class and government authorities. Since the election of Sebastián Piñera in 2018, certain measures were taken that signaled a policy aimed towards reducing Haitian presence in the country: namely, a “humanitarian” return plan exclusively for Haitians and the creation of a consular visa as the main permit in order to enter the country. During the COVID-19 pandemic, they were singled out as disobedient to the measures imposed by the state of emergency and the sanitary restrictions put in place. Chilean society agrees with restrictive norms and policies and looks with suspicion at a migrant group that it perceives as different. Chile, a country colonized in the name of humanist and republican values, which upholds cultural homogeneity, does not look favorably on the arrival of migrants from elsewhere in the region, and even less so on a migrant group whose skin color has been negatively evaluated, to the point of linking it to physical, cultural and psychological characteristics. This work makes brief references of the context of migrating to Chile, of doing so from Haiti, and of some elements of Haiti’s history that make up this particular migratory situation. The proposed objective is to identify racism present within the interactions between public health workers and Haitian patients who approach them for help or treatment in the city of Santiago. This work stems from a larger project that analyzed the sociability and cultural skills of different public health professionals interacting with migrants. Employing a qualitative methodology, semi-structured interviews were conducted with professionals from the public health service and focus groups were organized with Haitian patients. The frame of reference focuses on racism as a system and as a social relationship, on racial discrimination and its effects on people. The words of patients and professionals are analyzed and conclusions are drawn in regards to racism and registered violence as forms of sociability, the latter understood as the way in which two actors interact when one of them is in a position of superiority. These processes need to be reflected upon in order to account for the damages caused to Haitian men, women and children seeking care in the public health network. Considering the importance of the right to migrate in current times and the multiple obstacles that impede it, Haitian life in Chile emerges as a “problem” when it comes to being attended, cared for or assisted to by health professionals, an issue that is linked to the fact that contemporary migrations have been repeatedly characterized as a “problem” and not as a social phenomenon that needs to be seriously analyzed with academic accuracy. Racist criticism emerges violently, offending and harming Haitian migrants who, in order to avoid it, sometimes prefer not to go public health centers, to look for alternatives when dealing with the ailments that afflict them, or straightforwardly abandon the possibility of being attended at all. Finally, some guidelines are advanced which may help to overcome these situations by training professionals in order to improve communications between them and Haitian migrants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present work analyzes the historical evolution of the public employment from its emergence in the Roman Empire to its current configuration. The progression of this figure, and the determination of its contours, is opposed to that of personnel in the health field. The singularities of this sector and the coexistence of public health personnel with the birth of their own and differentiated regime, the regime of statutory personnel, are the core of this analysis. To this end, the parallel evolution of the public service and statutory regime and the subsequent separation into two differentiated legal systems are analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyzes the ways in which malnutrition is related to land access, labor conditions, ethnic and gender relations, and the social and cultural organization of child care in rural and peri-urban contexts in Orán, Salta, Argentina. Research was conducted from an ethnographic approach in which qualitative and quantitative techniques were used with ava-guaraní, kolla, wichí and white populations who were patients of Salta's Primary Health Care Program (PROAPS) between 2010 and 2016. Although child malnutrition is cast as an "indigenous problem" by certain health personnel and public officials, cases of malnutrition were observed in white children, while there were no positive diagnoses of malnutrition among children living in communities with territorial recognition. Access to rural land, even without title deeds, enables food self-production and allows access to more stable housing and working conditions. The violation of indigenous populations' territorial rights are a determining factor in understanding nutritional deficits among children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Case-law analysis of the judgments regarding unlawful access to medical records by personnel of the public health care systems of Spain. The case-law analysis is followed by a reflection of the current configuration of the unlawful accesses to computer files as they are part of the Criminal Code Title for crimes related to violations of the right to privacy, as well as some proposals for improvement from a cybersecurity-based approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article was conceived to analyze the work of the School of Public Health of Mexico (ESPM for is acronym in Spanish) from the year 2000 to the present day. One of the highlights that we will examine is the reorientation of the educational work of the school in order to meet the challenges in health and education that emerged during the end of the twentieth century. In order to explain the evolution of this process, we will describe the three main guiding principles that characterize the present work of the school: the pedagogical model's change, the incorporation of the information and communication technologies, and the professionalization in teaching. The purpose of this work is to define those guiding principles, and to expose, through the contrast between past and present, the complete history of uninterrupted work of the School of Public Health of Mexico during its ninety-two years of existence, that has gone beyond the boundaries of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to determine the association between risk factors, dietary habits, physical activity, alcohol and tobacco consumption, in the presence of obesity, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, myocardial infarction, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, liver cirrhosis, and cancer, in health care workers (and other categories of employees) of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS). Methods: from March to December 2009, 20,000 surveys were conducted among randomly selected workers on 35 IMSS delegations. The variables of the study included affiliation, sex, age, employment status, registration of known diseases, smoking, nicotine addiction, risk drinking, alcohol addiction, eating and exercise habits. Results: workers with poor eating habits, sedentary lifestyle, smoking and alcohol abuse are more frequently exposed to the presence of obesity, hypertension and diabetes mellitus and these in turn to cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, myocar-dial infarction, cerebral vascular disease and liver cirrhosis. Conclusions: this study shows that IMSS workers have a high exposure to risk factors associated with the presence of chronic diseases and their complications. It is necessary to enable them to improve significantly their health profile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A personal narrative is presented in which the author discusses her career as a community health worker in the Asesoría, Capacitación y Asistencia en Salud, A.C. (ACASAC) organization, which helps indigenous peoples in Mexico who suffer from sexually transmitted diseases, such as HIV and AIDS.

The Libro de la Anathomía del hombre by Bernardino Montaña, a treatise of scientific wisdom, represents a genre, largely cultivated by physicians, surgeons, hygienists and, more generally, princely counsellors, that flourished in western Europe under monarchical auspices from the beginning of the twelfth century. Profoundly inspired by Henry de Mondeville's Cirugía, the Libro de la Anathomía del hombre exhibits certain similarities with contemporary works such as A profitable Treatise of the Anatomie of Mans Body by Thomas Vicary, or Remedio de cuerpos humanos by Luis Lobera de ávila. As in these works, the purpose of the author is initially didactic, but the generous use of Classical images and metaphors favours a strongly political discourse meant to legitimize the hegemonic social order. The account of an allegorical dream, remarkable from a stylistic point of view, emphasizes the treatise's oneiric dimension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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At the beginning of the twenty century, Recife was a city in which the industry development and the increase of the population emphasize the lack of dwellings. The workers habitat has been a proclamation subject of the hygienists, the workers and the State. So, this essay refers to the new territorial organization project of Recife, to the speech of the necessity of to extinguish the slums and to build neighborhoods of social dwellings. The text also narrates about Camaragibe, an industry whose localization is 16 km from Recife, where houses was built around the industrial centre. The documental investigation is based on the following sources 1) the files of the Camaragibe's factory in The Joaquim Nabuco Institute of Social Researches (FUNDAJ); 2) the newspaper files, whose objective was to recognize the speech of different social segments and their vision of the society where they lived and 3) the state laws. This two last sources are from the State Filling-cabinet of Pernambuco. In summary, the construction of social dwellings at the beginnings of the XX Century in Recife represented a new territorial organization, where entire neighborhoods were created and still last to our days as the workers' places in the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Se anuncia que Ariel Emilio Cortés Martínez defendió su tesis doctoral sobre las prácticas diagnósticas en hospitales en Colombia, y obtuvo el titulo de doctor en Epidemiología y Salud Pública de la Universidad de Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid, España.