José Vicente Arcos-Machancoses, Martín Romero Prada, Elena Crehuá Gaudiza, Cecilia Martínez Costa
{"title":"[Cost-effectiveness analysis of a vaccine for Helicobacter pylori in southern Europe].","authors":"José Vicente Arcos-Machancoses, Martín Romero Prada, Elena Crehuá Gaudiza, Cecilia Martínez Costa","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>There is sufficient evidence on the feasibility of a vaccine to prevent Helicobacter pylori infection. Modeling studies in low prevalence environments report a very probable long-term cost-effectiveness. The objective of this study was to quantify its efficiency in a local context.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The evolution of a cohort of newborns was simulated through a compartmental model representing a series of clinical situations regarding H. pylori infection and related diseases. The model was run under the assumption of both vaccination in the first year of life and no intervention. The time horizon was set as equivalent to the life expectancy and the perspective of the health system was taken into account.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Vaccination against H. pylori would cost an average of €2,168/person more than no intervention. This would yield an average additional 0.32 quality-adjusted life years gained (QALY), which would entail an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) of €7,196/QALY. For a willingness to pay of €24,506/QALY, 99.96% of the simulations were cost-effective at eighty-four years old. This threshold was crossed thirty years after vaccination. The variables that carried the most weight in explaining the variability of the ICER were, in this order, vaccine effectiveness, the incidence of infection in young children, and the price of the vaccine. Vaccination would cease to be cost-effective with a price greater than €3,634/dose or with effective population coverage less than 11%.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>When implemented in an environment with the epidemiological and economic characteristics of Southern Europe, a prophylactic vaccination against H. pylori would be cost-effective in the long run.</p>","PeriodicalId":94199,"journal":{"name":"Revista espanola de salud publica","volume":"98 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11575329/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140112556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniela Mazzaccaro, Rosangela Piccinni, Valentina Milani, Paolo Righini, Giovanni Nano, Giulia Ml Gobbo
{"title":"[Effect of cardiovascular risk on SARS-CoV-2 RNA clearance in nasopharyngeal swabs from COVID-19 patients].","authors":"Daniela Mazzaccaro, Rosangela Piccinni, Valentina Milani, Paolo Righini, Giovanni Nano, Giulia Ml Gobbo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94199,"journal":{"name":"Revista espanola de salud publica","volume":"98 ","pages":"e1-e4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139998758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rubén Nevado, Alfonso Arteaga, Javier Fernández-Montalvo
{"title":"[Psychological consequences of amputations in work accidents].","authors":"Rubén Nevado, Alfonso Arteaga, Javier Fernández-Montalvo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Amputations in work accidents are a phenomenon with a high incidence and peculiar characteristics. The few studies about the effects of amputation are referred to large limbs, and show that, beyond the physical consequences, there are important psychological consequences. The goal of this paper was to show the updated knowledge on the main psychopathological consequences of amputations in work accidents, as well as the variables that can modulate them.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A non-systematic bibliographic review was carried out, with varied ad hoc searches for the different variables studied.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Studies have focused mainly on anxiety and depressive symptoms, post-traumatic stress disorder, and phantom limb pain. Modulating variables whose presence improves the prognosis of these persons have been identified, such as adaptation to daily life, physical exercise, coping strategies, resilience and quality of life.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The different psychological areas reviewed should be considered when attending people who have suffered an amputation in a work accident. Likewise, enhancing the modulating variables whose presence improves the prognosis is an interesting field for professional intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":94199,"journal":{"name":"Revista espanola de salud publica","volume":"98 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11575307/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139992191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[About \"Sleep disorders related to HIV treatment\"].","authors":"Andrés Escate-Córdova, Miguel A Arce-Huamani","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94199,"journal":{"name":"Revista espanola de salud publica","volume":"98 ","pages":"e1-e2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139992267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Roberto Barcala-Furelos, Lucía Peixoto-Pino, Julio Zanfaño-Ongil, Santiago Martínez-Isasi
{"title":"[Challenges in teaching first aids at schools: analysis of spanish educational legislation (LOMLOE) and curricular guidance].","authors":"Roberto Barcala-Furelos, Lucía Peixoto-Pino, Julio Zanfaño-Ongil, Santiago Martínez-Isasi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Teaching first aid (FA) to children and young people is a priority strategy in Public Health. The aim of this paper was to review and analyze new educational legislation within the FA curriculum framework, which is necessary for providing teachers and healthcare professionals with a practical guide that guides teaching to train first responders in different school stages.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A group of four experts with curricular experience at different educational levels, as well as in the field of FA, participated in this analysis. The methodology involved a consensus analysis approach on the content of the spanish Royal Decrees (RD) for Primary Education (RD 157/2022), Secondary Education (RD 217/2022), and Baccalaureate (RD 243/2022) that develop the curriculum of the Organic Law 3/2020 (LOMLOE).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In the analysis of the three RD, ten general concepts were identified: accident prevention; protocol Protect, Alert, Assist (PAS); 1-1-2 protocol; recovery position (PLS); cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR); automated external or semi-automatic defibrillator (AED); foreign body airway obstruction (FBAO); FA; transportation of the injured; and stroke. Throughout all educational stages, in twenty-seven instances appeared content explicitly related to accident prevention or the learning of FA.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The current curriculum provides FA content from the age of eight-nine (3<sup>rd</sup> year of Primary Education). By the end of compulsory education, all students should be able to identify cardiac arrest, alert emergency services, initiate resuscitation maneuvers, use the defibrillator, and know how to respond to choking incidents.</p>","PeriodicalId":94199,"journal":{"name":"Revista espanola de salud publica","volume":"98 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11575381/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139934951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yudy Carolina Galván Núñez, Alejandra Florez Suaza, Luis Carlos Sánchez Rojo, Ángela María Lombo Lievano
{"title":"[Factors associated with abandoning from the Kangaroo Mother Program between years 2019 and 2021].","authors":"Yudy Carolina Galván Núñez, Alejandra Florez Suaza, Luis Carlos Sánchez Rojo, Ángela María Lombo Lievano","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The abandonment of the Kangaroo Mother Program is a public health problem that affects the health of premature infants. The objective of this study was to determine the factors associated with the abandonment of mothers or caregivers of premature infants in the first stage of the Kangaroo Mother Program of a Health Promoting Company (EPS) in the department of Antioquia (Colombia), between 2019 and 2021.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>An observational, cross-sectional, and analytical study was carried out, where information was collected on admissions to the program (N=1,344) between 2019 and 2021. The Chi-Square likelihood ratio test was performed with crude prevalence ratio, a generalized linear model of robust variance was applied with the adjusted prevalence ratio.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>When adjusting for dropout with the independent variables, a higher probability of dropout was evidenced: with respect to the year 2020 (PR 2.44, 95% CI: 1.94-3.08, p-value=0.0001), marital status alone with support (PR 1.60, 95% CI: 0.84-3.04, p-value=0. 147), primary school completed or incomplete (PR 1.48, 95% CI 1.11-1.97, p-value=0.006), monthly income less than the current legal monthly minimum wage (CLMMW) (PR 1.26, 95% CI: 1.00-1.59, p-value=0.004) and area of residence living outside Medellin (PR 1.25, 95% CI: 1.06-1.46, p-value=0.006).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings of this study can be very useful to carry out interventions in families belonging to Kangaroo Programs, with the aim of intervening risk factors associated with program dropout.</p>","PeriodicalId":94199,"journal":{"name":"Revista espanola de salud publica","volume":"98 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11575391/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139934953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Juan Carlos Gascó-Laborda, M Dolores Tirado-Balaguer, María Gil-Fortuño, Gabriela Dorina Deaconescu, Oihana Sabalza-Baztán, Óscar Pérez-Olaso, Iris Gómez-Alfaro, Noelia Hernández-Pérez, Juan B Bellido-Blasco
{"title":"[Impact of the pandemic on various infectious diseases with different epidemiological patterns of seasonality, transmission and age].","authors":"Juan Carlos Gascó-Laborda, M Dolores Tirado-Balaguer, María Gil-Fortuño, Gabriela Dorina Deaconescu, Oihana Sabalza-Baztán, Óscar Pérez-Olaso, Iris Gómez-Alfaro, Noelia Hernández-Pérez, Juan B Bellido-Blasco","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The COVID-19 pandemic has had a strong impact on other infectious diseases. The aim of this paper was to analyze the epidemiological changes that occurred during the pandemic in eight infectious diseases with different epidemiological patterns: influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, rotavirus, pneumococcus, <i>Campylobacter</i>, non-typhoid <i>Salmonella</i>, gonorrhea and herpes zoster.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>From the Microbiological Surveillance Network, the time series of cases was traced from January 2017 to March 2023. Three periods were distinguished: reference, pandemic and beginning of the post-pandemic. The distribution by age and sex in these periods was analyzed. Incidence rates and rate ratios (RR) were calculated. These RRs and their 95% confidence intervals were estimated overall and by year of age in children under five years of age.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Statistically significant differences were found in the impact that the pandemic had on each of these diseases. Some, after a period of epidemic silence, have revealed an intense post-pandemic rebound. The post-pandemic global RT increased for influenza (2.4), RSV (1.9) and gonorrhea (3.1); rotavirus recovered its pre-pandemic level (1.07); and pneumococcus (0.84), <i>Campylobacter</i> (0.83) and <i>Salmonella</i> (0.60) decreased. In children under 5 years of age, the patterns were specific and heterogeneous for each disease.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The impact of the pandemic is very different in these diseases. Pediatric and respiratory-transmitted seasonal viral infections are the ones that are most affected, but with different patterns of recovery to normality. Gastrointestinal bacterial infections suffer fewer variations, except for rotavirus. Gonorrhea do not interrupt its increasing trend seen in the pre-pandemic. Shingles show a slight post-pandemic increase. Several diseases with different epidemiological patterns have been studied for a sufficient period to observe how the acute phase of the pandemic emerges.</p>","PeriodicalId":94199,"journal":{"name":"Revista espanola de salud publica","volume":"98 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11583148/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139934955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ana Koerting, Néstor Nuño, Carlos Peralta, Javier Gómez, Julia Del Amo
{"title":"[HIV and human rights: political action to achieve ZERO stigma].","authors":"Ana Koerting, Néstor Nuño, Carlos Peralta, Javier Gómez, Julia Del Amo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>According to Sustainable Development Goals 10.2 and 10.3, it is imperative to promote the elimination of discriminatory laws, as well as implement policies and practices for the inclusion of vulnerable social groups on the social, economic and political fronts. In this regard, HIV-related discrimination and stigma remain unaddressed in many European Union countries. Fighting HIV-related stigma has been one of the main priorities of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. This commitment was reflected in the High Level Meeting entitled <i>HIV and Human Rights. Political action to achieve ZERO stigma</i>. This meeting provided an opportunity to discuss a variety of strategies and agreements for eradicating stigma and discrimination associated with HIV in a variety of social, political, and institutional contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":94199,"journal":{"name":"Revista espanola de salud publica","volume":"98 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11571932/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139934954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Compassionate culture in addressing polio in healthcare settings. The spanish case (1940-1970)].","authors":"Rosa Ballester","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The presence of epidemic outbreaks of poliomyelitis in the initial and central decades of the last century constituted an important Public Health problem due to the absence of effective treatments because it preferentially affected children, in environments with acceptable levels of health, and the fear of the paralytic sequelae. This work attempted to reconstruct some of the responses that were given in the Spanish state, both in professional health settings and from alternative heterodox approaches such as the Kenny method, taking as a reference axis the compassionate culture that was behind the development of the measures. adopted and their critical analysis, in the period before the implementation of anti-polio vaccines.</p>","PeriodicalId":94199,"journal":{"name":"Revista espanola de salud publica","volume":"98 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11571764/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139934952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Inés M Fernández-Guerrero, Cristina Fernández-Guerrero, Manuel Torralbo-Rodríguez, Antonio Fernández-Cano
{"title":"[Review of a pioneer book on epidemics by Risueño de Amador (1829)].","authors":"Inés M Fernández-Guerrero, Cristina Fernández-Guerrero, Manuel Torralbo-Rodríguez, Antonio Fernández-Cano","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article reviews and comments on the epidemiological book written by the Spanish physician Benigno Risueño de Amador (1802-1849), initially published in French (1829), and its subsequent translation into Spanish (1831). This retrospective documentary case study of a scientific-medical manual reviews the contents of the book, highlighting its most important aspects. This almost 200-year-old book can be considered a valuable, early contribution to epidemiology, and a sign of the great concern in early 19th Europe about the subject of epidemics. It represents a valuable contribution that shows the enormous efforts made to advance in this medical discipline towards a more scientific position at an incipient microbial time.</p>","PeriodicalId":94199,"journal":{"name":"Revista espanola de salud publica","volume":"98 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139743075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}