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La participación de las mujeres en el ámbito científicoperuano es aún baja según indicadores de publicaciónen revistas (1). A esto debemos sumar la desigualdadde género que podría pasar desapercibida en diversoscampos de la ciencia, siendo la participación enlas editoriales de revistas científicas uno de ellos (2).Participar en comités editoriales de revistas científicas,brinda la oportunidad de tomar decisiones importantesen procesos y políticas editoriales que generaexperiencia y reconocimiento para obtener mayoresoportunidades de desarrollo profesional.

Objective: To estimate and analyze the evolution of mortality rates of gastrointestinal (GI) cancer in Peru and its regions between 2005-2014. Material and methods: We performed a nationwide secondary analysis of Peru’s Health Ministry registry of deaths during the period 2005-2014, with a focus on regional differences. Deaths registered with codes C15 to C25 (malignant neoplasms of digestive organs) from the ICD-10 were included. Calculation of age-standarized mortality rates and years of life lost (YLL) due to GI cancer per 100,000 habitants were also performed. Results: Data of 67,527 deaths from GI cancers was analyzed, 35,055 (51.91%) were women. In 2005, the number of GI cancer deaths was 6,484, for 2014, 7,532 cases were recorded. The GI cancer age-standarized mortality rates at the country level showed a decrease of 12.70% between 2005-2014. Stomach cancer presented the highest...

Objective: To characterize the publications on Health Systems produced in Peru between 2000-2020. Study: A bibliometric study of the scientific publications on health systems in Peru was carried out in journals indexed in the PubMed and SciELO databases. Narrative reviews, original articles with cross-sectional, and retrospective or prospective designs, were included. Collaboration networks of authors and institutions were described. Findings: 136 bibliographic units were identified. The institutions with the highest production were Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (24.52%), the Ministry of Health (14.19%) and the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (7.74%). The most studied component was the provision of services (50%), with descriptive designs. 65.44% were published between 2015-2020 and 35.29% in the Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública. 51.47% of the ar...