El dengue, también conocido popularmente como “Fiebre quebrantahuesos” es la más importante enfermedad viral humana transmitida por vectores artrópodos del genero Aedes, principalmente A. aegypti (1,2). Esta se ha ido extendiendo a varios países alrededor del mundo, en especial a los de las regiones tropicales y subtropicales en donde es una amenaza para más de 2 500 millones de personas (2), por lo que en la actualidad se le considera como una de las principales enfermedades virales reemergentes y emergentes a escala mundial. La diseminación del dengue obedece a muchas causas: guerras, viajes, calentamiento global, migraciones, hacinamiento, crecimiento demográfico, urbanización descontrolada, deterioro de los sistemas de servicios de agua y su almacenaje inadecuado, así como, a la falta de políticas preventivas de salud pública en los últimos 30 años en�...

Background: The dropout rate in students of health sciences careers is scarcely investigated in our country. The university dropout in general is multifactorial in origin and implications, and includes individual, family, institutional and social factors. It causes huge economic losses to the country and to the region. Objectives: To determine the frequency of desertion during undergraduate training in medicine, nursing, obstetrics and dentistry in nine universities in Peru. Design: Retrospective observational cross-sectional study. Institution: Department of Management of Human Resources Development, Ministry of Health of Peru. Location: 4 universities of Lima and 5 universities of provinces. Methods: Record the number of students who withdrew during their training period in health sciences careers, and structured interviews to determine the conditioning factors. Main outcome measures: ...

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global health crisis. Vaccines against this disease have demonstrated variable efficacy and safety, although effectiveness has not been evaluated. In February 2021, the Ministry of Health of Peru approved the emergency use of the inactivated SARS-CoV-2 (Vero Cell) vaccine and initiated vaccination with health personnel at the national level. The objective of the study is to determine the effectiveness of this vaccine to reduce infections, hospitalizations, and deaths due to COVID-19. Methodology: We performed a retrospective cohort study in the period from 23 February to 26 June 2021; data were obtained from the Ministry of Health (including demographic, epidemiologic, clinical, hospital, laboratory results, deaths, and both date and quantity of vaccine doses delivered). The exposed cohort were those who received one or two vaccine doses a...