OBJECTIVE: To determine the presence of congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) in three Peruvian cities. DESIGN: Transversal, descriptive study. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Children under twelve years old with major definition criteriae of congenital rubella syndrome receiving special education in Lima (three), Cusco (two) and Arequipa (one) schools, from 1998 to 2000, were included. RESULTS: From 364 children 105 were included, 61% of cases suspicious, 21% probable and 1,9% confirmed; 64,7% had central nervous system manifestations, 31% ocular manifestations, 18% at least two clinical manifestations. CONCLUSIONS: Probable and confirmed cases of CRS represented 6,6% of all children receiving special education, evidencing that CRS represents a health problem in our country and the need to initiate anti-rubella vaccination in Peru.

Objective: To determine congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) presence in Peru. Design: Descriptive, cross sectional study. Material and Methods: Review of clinical records of children hospitalized between January 1998 and June 2000 at 17 hospital pediatric services in seven districts of Peru, children who presented al least one of the following diagnosis: congenital cataracts or glaucoma, retinitis pigmentosa, congenital cardiac malformation or neurosensorial deafness. The cases were classified as suspected, probable and confirmed. Results: From 91102 hospital discharge diagnosis of children less than 12 year-old, 361 fulfilled inclusion criteria; 51,8% were suspicious, 9,7% probable, and 1,4% confirmed; 93,6% had congenital heart symptomatology, 29,6% central nervous alterations, and 18,6% ocular manifestations;11% of the children had at least two clinical manifestations. Conclusion: There...

Objective: To obtain information about sexual transmitted diseases (STD) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) behavioral risk factors and perceptions in adolescent women, ages between 16 and 17 years, who subscribed to obtain their military identification card. Design: Randomized anonymous, transversal study done in Lima and Callao during 2001. Material and methods: Auto applied questionnaire that used a structural equation model to conduce a path analysis. Results: Seven hundred and fifty-five adolescent women participated in this study, mean age 16,4±0,49 years, mean age at first sexual intercourse 15,4 years. There were risk behaviors related to STD/HIV/AIDS in the adolescents with reported active sexual life: 35,1% had an occasional sex partner, the proportion of global condom use was low (23,4%) while 16% reported two or more sexual partners in the past year, one third (33%) repo...

The relationship between being a victim of physical violence by an intimate partner and binge drinking (BD) is a poorly explored line of research, especially in men. To determine the association between being a victim of physical violence by an intimate partner and BD in men and women in Peru in 2020, a secondary analytical cross-sectional study was conducted using the Demographic Health Survey. BD was categorized according to the Center of Disease Control definition for men and women, based on the type and amount of alcoholic beverage ingested. Physical violence was based the report of being hit with any part of the body or an object, by their intimate partner. To identify the association, a multivariable general linear model of the family and link log Poisson was used. The results were presented as prevalence ratios (PRs). In the adjusted models stratified by sex, a 90% greater likelih...

Background: A substantial number of children in the world are regularly subjected to physical punishment by their parents as a method of upbringing. Evidence suggests that it has negative effects on the development of brain function. However, evidence regarding its association with verbal communication is limited and heterogeneous. It is also unknown whether the effects are the same in both boys and girls; especially in the contexts of developing countries, where the highest rates of physical punishment are found. Objective: This investigation aimed at analyzing the association between physical punishment administered by both fathers and mothers and effective verbal communication among children aged 9–36 months according to sex. Methods: A secondary analytical cross-sectional study was conducted based on the 2018–2019 Peruvian Demographic and Family Health Survey. Physical punishment...

El documento de los lineamientos de gestión de la Estrategia Sanitaria Nacional de Alimentación y Nutrición Saludable contiene un diagnóstico de la situación nutricional, los objetivos estratégicos, las estrategias, los resultados esperados, las líneas de acción e indicadores, que serán considerados como referentes para las intervenciones sobre los problemas de alimentación y nutrición en el ámbito nacional