El presente estudio, tuvo como objetivo Determinar la influencia que tendrá la ejecución estratégica del Enfoque por Procesos sobre el mejoramiento del proceso de Atención Quirúrgica – Operatoria del Instituto Nacional del Niño - Lima, 2016.Este trabajo de investigación gira en torno a la calidad de los servicios que lleguen a brindar las organizaciones públicas, radica en cuanto a la efectividad y eficacia en que se deben ejecutar los procesos administrativos de los servicios que brindan en sí. La metodología elegida para la recolección de datos fue la encuesta a los 43 miembros del Instituto Nacional del niño,el modelo aplicado para la investigación es no experimental con un tipo explicativa-correlacional. Se concluyó que el proceso de atención quirúrgica operatoria y sus indicadores como: los Trámites Administrativos de servicios, Procedimientos derivados propiament...

Objective. The objective of the current study was to evaluate critical nutrients of industrialized foods and compare them with the technical parameters established in the Peruvian regulations, in its two stages of implementation, referring to front-of-package labeling before the beginning of its validity in June 2019. Methods. Cross-sectional study in which the critical nutrients of sodium, total sugar, saturated fat and transfat were analyzed from data declared in the nutritional labels of 511 processed and ultra-processed foods that were part of the products purchased for the consumption of 88 families of students from one private university in Lima. The technical parameters used to evaluate the critical nutrients are those established in the Regulation of Law 30021. All analyses were carried out with Excel and SPSS version 21, Student’s t-statistics and McNemar’s test were used. R...

Introduction: Anemia is a condition in which there is a low concentration of hemoglobin (Hb) levels. Although many causes of anemia have been identified, there are few studies in which they are related to epidemiological factors in the first months of life.  Objective: To determine the factors associated with hemoglobin levels in children under 6 months of age hospitalized in a specialized pediatric center in Peru. Methods: To determine the factors associated with hemoglobin levels in children under 6 months of age hospitalized in a specialized pediatric center in Peru. Results: 61.4% of the infants were women, and only 6.7% of the proportion of the studied population was less than 1 month old. 6.7% had a low birth weight, and 53.2% had a normal delivery. The level of anemia in hospitalized children under 6 months of age is 66.7%. Conclusions: The factors associated with hemoglobin leve...

Background: The promotion of a healthy diet should take place at all levels, including the university community. The main objective was to explore the knowledge and frequency of consumption of processed and ultra-processed products in students of a private university in Lima-Peru. Methods: Cross-sectional, exploratory study, where a structured questionnaire was applied that collected information on 398 university students of both sexes, residents in Metropolitan Lima during the period from April to June 2019. Results: Of the total number of respondents, 50.8% study a career in Health Sciences. Most of the participants claimed to recognize a processed product (75.9%), however, only 43.4% of them gave valid examples. Regarding the term ultra-processed, only 18.1% claimed to have heard them and most of them confirmed with examples. Regarding the frequency of consumption, it was evidenced th...

Objective: To determine the association between the perception of practical advice and the educational messages of the food guides in students of a private university in Peru. Methodology: Cross-sectional study. The population corresponded to undergrads who are from the first to tenth semester of their degrees in a private university of Lima-Peru. The sample was 480 university students who voluntarily agreed to participate in the study. The data were collected in the period from october to november of the year 2019. A questionnaire was applied to collect the perception of university students about the messages of the dietary guidelines and the media where they would like to know information about educational messages. Results: 46.5% correspond to undergrads of the Faculty of Health Sciences. Messages 1, 3, 4, 6, 9 and 11 of the Peruvian GABAS showed an evident statistical association (p ...

Objective: to interpret the meaning of being a critical patient due to covid-19 from the Heideggerian perspective: experiences of health workers. Lima-2020. Methodology: Hermeneutic phenomenological qualitative research. Sample: Six informants selected for convenience, inclusion criteria and snowball technique. The data was collected through an in-depth open virtual interview; which were transcribed in Word as they were manifested; validated by contrasting responses by the informants themselves. The analysis was carried out in two methodological moments: Vague and medium pre-analysis from which the units of meaning emanated, the second methodological moment hermeneutical analysis. Main Results: six propositions: I. Care as social co-responsibility. II. Fear of death and the meaning of life, III. Care/Self-care Vs. Physical distancing: Suffering and loneliness, IV. Conflicting feelings an...

Objective: To determine the prevalence and risk factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection among workers of Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño (INSN) from April 2020 to March 2021. Materials and methods: A non-experimental, descriptive, cross-sectional study. The sample consisted of 608 workers who tested positive for COVID-19 using a rapid antigen test. The COVID-19 clinical-epidemiological research sheets prepared bythe Ministry of Health of Peru and self-administered by the workers were reviewed. The INSN Department of Epidemiology staff verified the completion of the sheets. The data was entered into a database, which was used for the respective statistical analysis. The study was approved by the INSN Institutional Research Ethics Committee (registration code: PI-17/21). Results: COVID-19 prevalence among INSN workers was 7.24 % from April 2020 to March 2021. Out of the workers ...