Objetivo: Exponer una metodología para implementar una estrategia de perfeccionamiento en la gestión nacional de producción de software educativo en la Educación Médica en Cuba. Materiales y métodos: estudio aplicativo y analítico implementado en la educación médica en Cuba del 2010-2016. Universo de estudio: 180 desarrolladores de software educativo de la educación médica subdividido en tres estratos. Primer estrato con una muestra de 63 desarrolladores; segundo estrato, 17 desarrolladores además de líderes del proceso y el tercer estrato, seis desarrolladores además de participantes en los dos períodos de gestión nacional. Se aplicaron métodos teóricos que posibilitaron fundamentar y solucionar el problema investigado y métodos empíricos para la obtención de la información. Se aplicaron cuestionarios, se realizaron entrevistas y desarrollaron técnicas participati...

Malnutrition has serious consequences for children by affecting their growth and development. Objective: To identify the factors associated with malnutrition in children under five years of age. Materials and methods: observational, analytical, cross-sectional and retrospective study. Theoretical, empirical and mathematical statistical methods were applied. Study population: children under 5 years of age treated at the pediatric hospital in Menongue, Angola, between January and March 2023 (n=211). Exclusion criteria: terminally ill children, incomplete medical records, and responsible persons who did not agree to participate in the study. Statistical treatment: the group composition variable was the child's weight, with two categories: malnourished (N=138) and normal weight (N=73). Chi-square, Mann-Whitney U and Odd Ratio (OR) tests were applied with 95% significance. Results: The larges...

Objetivo: Describir el empleo del software educativo por los profesores de las asignaturas Rehabilitación I y II de Estomatología. Materiales y métodos: Se realizó un estudio descriptivo, transversal y observacional en la  Universidad de Ciencias Médicas  de Holguín desde septiembre del 2019 a enero del 2020, con muestreo intencional no probabilístico que incluyó los ocho profesores de las asignaturas Rehabilitación I y II. Como método teórico general se empleó el dialéctico además del histórico-lógico, análisis-síntesis y la inducción deducción. Como métodos empíricos el análisis documental y la encuesta. El análisis estadístico permitió procesar los datos y presentar los resultados en frecuencia absoluta y por ciento. Resultados: El 50% del total de los profesores emplea el software educativo en alguna de sus actividades docentes, seis de ellos en el desarro...

Child malnutrition is a major challenge for Angola. Objective: to identify factors associated with mortality due to child malnutrition in the Provincial Hospital of Benguela. Materials and methods: Case-control, observational and analytical study. The case group, made up of 51 children who died of malnutrition between May 2019 and May 2020, and the control group, made up of 102 living malnourished children. The matching was carried out according to the following criteria: diagnosis of malnutrition, age group, sex and origin. Medical records were the source of information. The X2 test made it possible to determine the association between the study variable and the rest, while the OR classified them as risky or protective, with 95% confidence. Results: The mean age of the case group was 16.6 months, 51% were infants with a predominance of females (53.9%). The risk of death due to malnutrit...

Introduction: Malaria is a serious disease that has among its complication’s acute kidney injury, as a consequence of a sudden decline in glomerular filtration, leading the patient to hemodialysis treatment. Objective: Estimate the prevalence of acute kidney injury in patients with malaria treated at the hemodialysis center of the municipality of Lobito, in the period 2018 to 2022. Materials and methods: Observational, descriptive, cross-sectional, retrospective study. Study population: total cases treated at the hemodialysis center in the study period (n=861). Inclusion criteria: malaria patients complicated with acute kidney injury. Sample consisting of 387 patients. The data were collected from the hospital's digital renal case management platform, and treated with descriptive statistics through absolute frequency and percentage. Results: In the period there was an increase in preva...