Introduction. Tacna is a region with very high risk of tuberculosis transmission; however, the diagnostic performance of direct smears in their healthcare centers is 1.5%. Objectives. To describe the knowledge, perceptions and practices about detection of respiratory symptomatic subjects. Design. Cross sectional study. Setting. Health care centers of Tacna Regional Health Directorate. Participants. Health professionals including physicians and nurses. Interventions. A structured self-administered, anonymous questionnaire, developed by the authors, based on the current "Technical Standard for Comprehensive Management of People Affected by Tuberculosis", was applied to 178 health professionals (physicians and nurses). Main outcome measures. Absolute and relative frequency of adequate knowledge, perceptions and practices on detection of respiratory symptomatic subjects. Results. In the stud...

Objectives. To analyze the scientific production framed in the National Research Agenda 2011-2014. Design. Bibliometric research using SCOPUS, LILACS and LIPECS databases. Setting National Health Institute, Lima, Peru. Unit of analysis. Original article with at least one researcher with a Peruvian institution affiliation or whose study population or part of it, came from Peru and framed on any issue of national research agendas. Main outcome measures. Bibliometric indicators of production. Results. Out of the 882 publications retrieved, 215 (24.4%) were admitted to the analysis. The national research agendas with more scientific production were tuberculosis and STD-HIV/AIDS that included 78 and 59 articles respectively. The most common language of publication was English (69.8%). The articles were published in 90 scientific journals. Peruvian institutions with the highest number of signa...

Competency-based learning in scientific research in the medicine faculties has been the subject of several theoretical approaches and many implementation experiences worldwide. We present the experience of an private university located in the city of Lima, Peru. This university has implemented a strategy of «research-based teaching» in conjunction with «research-oriented teaching» in order to incorporate the achievement of competences for scientific research in the curricular design. The experience is added to those described in medical schools, but with the appropriateness regarding the context of medical education in Peru. The implementation of the curricular strategy has generated unforeseen challenges in the formulation of the intervention, which are described for consideration in new scenarios. The experience is based on a conceptual framework that can serve as a reference for i...

Se cuenta con limitada evidencia sobre la exposición al hanta virus en el Perú, los casos reportados y estudios de seroprevalencia en febriles y población asintomática provienen de la región Loreto, sin embargo, existen grupos ocupacionales expuestos a los potenciales reservorios del hantavirus en regiones sin circulación conocida del virus. Determina la frecuencia de anticuerpos contra el hanta virus en agricultores de arroz de un valle ubicado en una zona tropical del Perú. Realiza un estudio transversal en una muestra de 250 agricultores de arroz captada en 2010 en el valle Alto Mayo de la región San Martín. Se determinó la presencia de anticuerpos IgG mediante ELISA indirecto, y anticuerpos IgM mediante ELISA de captura. Aplicamos un cuestionario estructurado de características del hogar y trabajo vinculadas a exposición con roedores. No se encontraron agricultores con an...

Introduction. The national vaccination scheme in Peru includes the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, the World Health Organization established goals for the coverage of this vaccination. The objective of the study was to estimate the proportion of newborns of women participating in the Demographic and Family Health Survey (ENDES) of Peru in 2016, who received vaccination against hepatitis B. Methods. A secondary study was conducted, the informants subject were childbearing age women from 15 to 49 years old, who reported having a child under five years of age, whose weight at birth was 2000g or more, and who have data regarding vaccination. The data on vaccination status against hepatitis B was obtained from the vaccination card. The results are presented for the national, regional level, and according to some specific sub groups. Results. At the national level, 67,5% (95% CI: 66,3-68,6) of n...

Objective: In Peru, there have been more than 2 million international migrants from 1990 to 2021, including 12.6 % of healthcare professionals. This migration has resulted in a lack of human resources and work overload. Consequently, at the national level, there is a need to identify the factors associated with the intention to migrate among professionals in healthcare facilities. At the international level, it has been found that one of the main motivations is job dissatisfaction. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to estimate the association between job satisfaction and the intention to migrate among Peruvian physicians and nurses. Materials and methods: An observational analytical study of secondary databases using responses from physicians and nurses from the 2016 Encuesta Nacional de Satisfacción de Usuarios en Salud (Ensusalud - National Survey of User Satisfaction in ...

Introduction. The hypertriglyceridemic waist has been proposed as a phenotype with a strong association with the metabolic syndrome. The frequency of this phenotype in adolescents from Peru, including Andes population is unknown. Objective. To estimate the frequency of the hypertriglyceridemic waist and its association with metabolic abnormalities and other factors in Peruvian adolescents from an Andean region. Methods. We performed a data secondary analysis through cross-sectional design. We analyzed 397 randomly selected adolescents from two public schools in the Cajamarca city. We defined hypertriglyceridemic waist as the simultaneous presence of increased waist circumference (≥ 90th percentile for age and sex) and serum hypertriglyceridemia (≥110 mg/dL). We estimated the point prevalence of hypertriglyceridemic waist and their 95% confidence interval, we also performed a binary l...