Salud ColectivaPub Date : 2021-10-13DOI: 10.18294/sc.2021.3599
Juan Martín Calderón, Mónica Tarapués
{"title":"[Leftover and expired medicines in households: Is their storage and disposal a public health problem?]","authors":"Juan Martín Calderón, Mónica Tarapués","doi":"10.18294/sc.2021.3599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18294/sc.2021.3599","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Leftover and expired medicines in households must be disposed of in such a way as to ensure the population's safety, while generating the lowest possible negative impact on the environment. In this context, the aim of this study was to explore drug disposal practices related to home medicine cabinets among medical students in Quito, Ecuador. Between December 2018 and January 2019, 498 students from different semesters were surveyed. Data show that up to 30.3% of students had flushed their medicines down the toilet at least once, while 7.2% acknowledged that they had removed the medicines from their packaging to deposit them in a household garbage disposal. A secondary aim of the study was to analyze expired and leftover drugs in participants' medicine cabinets. Metformin was the most common medication found, followed by acetaminophen, spironolactone, and ibuprofen. This study shows the urgent need to develop multisectoral strategies for the implementation of policies on pharmaceutical domestic waste, which will make it possible to control and reduce the negative impact on both the environment and public health.</p>","PeriodicalId":44640,"journal":{"name":"Salud Colectiva","volume":"17 ","pages":"e3599"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39602898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Salud ColectivaPub Date : 2021-09-27DOI: 10.18294/sc.2021.3583
Gustavo Marin, Julieta Del Mauro, Lupe Marin, Martin A Urtasun, Gina Marin, Daniel Nucher, Carlos Dacher, Dario Diaz Perez, Martín Cañás
{"title":"[Benzodiazepine and Z-drug consumption in a national social security organization in Argentina: rational or excessive use?]","authors":"Gustavo Marin, Julieta Del Mauro, Lupe Marin, Martin A Urtasun, Gina Marin, Daniel Nucher, Carlos Dacher, Dario Diaz Perez, Martín Cañás","doi":"10.18294/sc.2021.3583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18294/sc.2021.3583","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Benzodiazepines and \"Z-drugs\" (BZD/Z) are overprescribed in many countries. This study evaluates their consumption in a social security sector health insurance provider with national coverage in Argentina. With a descriptive and observational approach, outpatient dispensations of BZD/Zs were analyzed for people over 18 years old from April 2020 to March 2021, disaggregated by sex, age, active ingredient, and half-life. An annual prevalence of use of 11.6% was found among the 431,445 adult affiliates, with higher rates in women and in those over age 60. Overall consumption of BZD/Zs was 77.6 defined daily doses (DDD) per 1000 enrollee-days. The average user received 5.1 annual dispensations and the equivalent of 1.4 DDD for each day of the year. BZD/Zs with long half-life were the most used. We found high levels of BZD/Z consumption and for longer periods than recommended. It is necessary to improve the quality of consumption and reduce the negative impact of inappropriate use of these drugs among treated individuals.</p>","PeriodicalId":44640,"journal":{"name":"Salud Colectiva","volume":"17 ","pages":"e3583"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39709844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Salud ColectivaPub Date : 2021-08-23DOI: 10.18294/sc.2021.3572
Lucila Szwarc, Victoria Sánchez Antelo, Melisa Paolino, Silvina Arrossi
{"title":"[\"I felt myself getting sick:\" women's perceptions and understandings of a positive human papillomavirus test in Jujuy, Argentina].","authors":"Lucila Szwarc, Victoria Sánchez Antelo, Melisa Paolino, Silvina Arrossi","doi":"10.18294/sc.2021.3572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18294/sc.2021.3572","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With the purpose of analyzing women's perceptions and classifying their modes of understanding a positive human papillomavirus (HPV+) test, we conducted 38 in-depth interviews with women who had received an HPV diagnosis (normal and abnormal Pap smear), screened in Jujuy's public health system in 2016. A typology based on women's understandings of the result was developed: 1) understanding; 2) lack of understanding; a) underestimation; b) overestimation; c) confusion. The interviewees who experienced confusion over the results reported contradictory perceptions in relation to a positive HPV test and its severity; those who underestimated it tended to mention the absence of symptoms and expressed little concern over the result; while those who overestimated it considered themselves sick and described concern, narrating a biographical disruption and physical pain. These findings confirm the need to improve the delivery of results and the provision of information in order to decrease psychosocial impact and increase follow-up adherence in HPV-positive women.</p>","PeriodicalId":44640,"journal":{"name":"Salud Colectiva","volume":"17 ","pages":"e3572"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39602900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Social inequality and health: Food (in)security management in primary health care in Spain].","authors":"Mireia Campanera, Mercè Gasull, Mabel Gracia-Arnaiz","doi":"10.18294/sc.2021.3461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18294/sc.2021.3461","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Equity is an unresolved issue on the Spanish healthcare agenda. This paper explores the importance that health professionals give to social determinants of health and the means they possess to address them. It also analyzes the relationship between food insecurity and increases in certain diseases. One of its objectives is to ascertain how increasing uncertainty is being addressed in primary healthcare services. We present a qualitative study carried out in six primary care centers in the cities of Reus and Tarragona between 2018 and 2019, involving 19 practitioners active in the areas of nursing, family practice, and social work. Results indicate that the lack of resources in primary care centers makes it difficult to integrate a social determinants of health approach, and thus to mitigate inequalities. Furthermore, a lack of structural actions diminishes the ability to respond to citizens' healthcare needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":44640,"journal":{"name":"Salud Colectiva","volume":"17 ","pages":"e3461"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39709845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Salud ColectivaPub Date : 2021-06-07DOI: 10.18294/sc.2021.3577
Sonia Fleury
{"title":"[Social rights: difficult to construct, easy to destroy].","authors":"Sonia Fleury","doi":"10.18294/sc.2021.3577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18294/sc.2021.3577","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this article is to reflect on contemporary tensions between the social protection system in Brazil - which in the past 30 years has come to be organized as a social right and has been part of the construction of democracy in the country - and the current process of its dismantling under an authoritarian populist regime. From the theoretical perspective adopted in this article, structural characteristics and circumstantial factors are examined in order to explain the difficulties that have been faced in constructing a legal and institutional architecture for social rights, and on the other hand, why at present it is so easy to destroy it in practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":44640,"journal":{"name":"Salud Colectiva","volume":"17 ","pages":"e3577"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39077280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Salud ColectivaPub Date : 2021-06-07DOI: 10.18294/sc.2021.3334
Juliana Sampaio, Daniella de Souza Barbosa, Luciano Bezerra Gomes, Daniele Alves Peixoto, Tarcísio Almeida Menezes, Hariel Hegel Lins Zózimo, Maria Fernanda de Britto Lyra
{"title":"[Mapping the intricacies of care networks for persons with disabilities, from the perspectives of users-citizens-guides].","authors":"Juliana Sampaio, Daniella de Souza Barbosa, Luciano Bezerra Gomes, Daniele Alves Peixoto, Tarcísio Almeida Menezes, Hariel Hegel Lins Zózimo, Maria Fernanda de Britto Lyra","doi":"10.18294/sc.2021.3334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18294/sc.2021.3334","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article presents an analysis of the production of care networks for persons with disabilities in the state of Paraíba, Brazil. We employed a qualitative methodology with a cartographic approach, involving the participation of four users-citizens-guides. Weekly virtual meetings were held throughout the second half of 2020, in which we were able to collect, systematize, and theorize on four issues: 1) guilt and (non) life expectancy on the part of persons with disabilities; 2) the place of disability in family dynamics; 3) the production of specific core relational dependency networks; and 4) the public vs. private care offerings for persons with disabilities. Based on these findings, we were able to lend visibility to and explicitly affirm the ways in which these user-citizens participate in the complex process of care building for persons with disabilities and their families.</p>","PeriodicalId":44640,"journal":{"name":"Salud Colectiva","volume":"17 ","pages":"e3334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39077281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Salud ColectivaPub Date : 2021-06-03DOI: 10.18294/sc.2021.3358
Aline Messias Mota, Rubens Bedrikow
{"title":"[The suffering of women living in an informal settlement in São Paulo, Brazil: a challenge to the work of Primary Health Care].","authors":"Aline Messias Mota, Rubens Bedrikow","doi":"10.18294/sc.2021.3358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18294/sc.2021.3358","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Among the social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, increased poverty, unemployment, and social inequality in Brazil have led to worsening health problems, especially in the poorest citizens. The purpose of this research was to discuss the potentialities and limitations of the work process in primary health care based on the Family Health Strategy. In order to do so, we conducted semi-structured interviews with four women living in an informal settlement in the interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil, between January and February 2020. We found that the women experienced suffering in relation to issues such as housing precariousness, transience, social isolation, and silencing. The way in which primary health care is organized and professionals' work processes make it difficult for this population to access health services and for professionals to perceive their suffering. The findings of this research point to the need to reevaluate and improve the Family Health Strategy.</p>","PeriodicalId":44640,"journal":{"name":"Salud Colectiva","volume":"17 ","pages":"e3358"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39077282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Salud ColectivaPub Date : 2021-06-02DOI: 10.18294/sc.2021.3353
Tatiana de Vasconcellos Anéas
{"title":"[The praxis of matrix support: Interdisciplinary work in primary health care].","authors":"Tatiana de Vasconcellos Anéas","doi":"10.18294/sc.2021.3353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18294/sc.2021.3353","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Family health support centers have been implemented in Brazil in order to expand interdisciplinary work in primary care by hiring specialized professionals. The objective of this article is to detail the functioning of these centers and to analyze how matrix support methodology has been incorporated into primary care centers in the city of São Paulo. Between 2016 and 2017 a survey was carried out with 609 professionals, and participant observation and semi-structured interviews with strategic actors were conducted. Dialectical hermeneutics fusing quantitative and qualitative data was employed for data interpretation and analysis. The prospect of building matrix support is quite innovative. Despite the verticalization of power that obstructs the autonomy of workers in building a model of clinic co-management, there are also instances of construction and resistance.</p>","PeriodicalId":44640,"journal":{"name":"Salud Colectiva","volume":"17 ","pages":"e3353"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39093474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Salud ColectivaPub Date : 2021-05-31DOI: 10.18294/sc.2021.3363
Carolina Vidal, Carlos Faunes, Carol Toro Huerta, Cristóbal Ruiz-Tagle, Lorena Hoffmeister
{"title":"[Changes in suicide mortality trends in Chile, 1997-2018].","authors":"Carolina Vidal, Carlos Faunes, Carol Toro Huerta, Cristóbal Ruiz-Tagle, Lorena Hoffmeister","doi":"10.18294/sc.2021.3363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18294/sc.2021.3363","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using information from the mortality database at Chile's Department of Statistics and Health Information (Ministry of Health), an ecological time-series study was conducted to determine changing trends in suicide rates by sex and age group in Chile from 1997 to 2018. Results show that the mortality rate for men in 2018 was 20.1 per 100,000, almost five times higher than the rate for women. Trends in both sexes show a decrease in aver-age annual percent change of -5.4% [CI95% (-12.9; 1.9)] between 2009 and 2013. Over the same period, the average annual percent change for men was -5.8% [CI95% (-12.5; 2.3)], while for women it was -4.0 [CI95% (-5.8; -2.2)] between 2008 and 2018. No changes have been observed in trends for men aged 60 and over, the group with the high-est rates. Although suicide rates declined following the implementation of policies focus-ing on risk factors for suicide, it is necessary to evaluate the implementation of these pol-icies and devise similar actions geared toward populations with greater risk of suicide.</p>","PeriodicalId":44640,"journal":{"name":"Salud Colectiva","volume":"17 ","pages":"e3363"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39093470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Salud ColectivaPub Date : 2021-05-28DOI: 10.18294/sc.2021.3341
Helvo Slomp Junior, Karla Santa Cruz Coelho, Delba Machado Barros, Tulio Batista Franco, Kathleen Tereza da Cruz
{"title":"[Doing, planning, \"planning-doing:\" a case of municipal pragmatism in collaboration with a university during the COVID-19 pandemic].","authors":"Helvo Slomp Junior, Karla Santa Cruz Coelho, Delba Machado Barros, Tulio Batista Franco, Kathleen Tereza da Cruz","doi":"10.18294/sc.2021.3341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18294/sc.2021.3341","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article critically analyzes local governments' abilities to face the COVID-19 pandemic by examining an instance of technical-scientific cooperation between a municipality and a university located in the northern Rio de Janeiro (state) beginning in April 2020. This collaboration included: the implementation of a situation room, data processing and analysis for decision making and for public communication, a telemonitoring center, ongoing training with territorial healthcare teams, and an epidemiological study of COVID-19 in the municipality, among other actions. We situate our analysis within a conceptual framework that adopts a micropolitical view of concepts such as experience, pragmatism, \"live work in action,\" and desire. The notion of \"planning-doing\" is deployed as an inventive form of planning that is only narrated a posteriori, as an imperative act, a live government in action that depends on the movement of desire oriented by life, and that only takes place in collective spaces of management practices and health care.</p>","PeriodicalId":44640,"journal":{"name":"Salud Colectiva","volume":"17 ","pages":"e3341"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39077279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}