De acuerdo con el diagnóstico existe un factor muy importante: la falta de conocimiento e interés de la sociedad en la salud oral, es uno de los problemas más graves que afronta nuestro país hoy en día, especialmente los niños de los sectores sociales de más bajos recursos económicos; por eso consideramos la necesidad de involucrar a los actores sociales de la comunidad, quienes intervienen en su cuidado y educación. El presente estudio comprende una investigación explicativa, cuyo propósito fue evaluar la efectividad del programa educativo: “Niño sin caries, niño feliz”, en los agentes comunitarios de salud del centro poblado Virgen del Carmen- La Era, distrito de Lurigancho, provincia de Lima. El estudio fue desarrollado durante tres meses. Participaron 20 agentes comunitarios, a quienes se les midió los conocimientos y habilidades de salud bucal, antes y después del...

The aim of this study was to develop a stochastic simulation model to estimate implementation costs of porcine cysticercosis (CP) control programmes. Three scenarios were proposed: (1) use of a commercial recombinant vaccine (RV), (2) mixed use of RV plus oxfendazole (OFZ), and (3) dosing with OFZ. To establish the efficacy of the interventions, the probabilities of elimination of cysticercosis were obtained through the “cystiSim” agent-based model. The cost model was developed in R with 10 000 iterations. It was found that the mixed scenario offered a probability of 0.987 eliminating cysticercosis in 6.5 years and with an annual cost of S/. 335,208 (95% CI: S/ 309,922 – 368,698) (1 US$ = S/. 3.75). In contrast, the dosing strategy with OFZ proved to be less expensive with S/. 260,518 (95% CI: S/ 237,559 – 293,704) per year and a probability of elimination of 0.951...

 Objective: To identify laboratory results associated with the risk of death in patients hospitalized for COVID-19. Material and methods: retrospective cohort study of patients admitted for COVID-19 at the Hospital Nacional EsSalud Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen in Lima, between March 21 and May 12, 2020. The laboratory tests included in the study were those of hospital admission. A Cox analysis was done to determine factors associated with death. Results: a total of 433 patients were included: 253 cases (58%) with positive RT-PCR and 180 cases (42%) with reactive rapid antibody test. And, 55% (240/433) and 59% (256/433) had leukocytosis and relative lymphopenia (≤10%), respectively. 56% (49/87) had D-dimer greater than two mg/L. However, higher than normal values were presented in 39% (152/393) for urea and 19% (77/397) for creatinine, as well as 73% (228/313) for aspartate aminotra...