Highlights Lesions in the oral mucosa in patients with suspected or confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection can be detected and monitored. Teleconsultation facilitates the interdisciplinary approach (doctor-dentist). Clinical findings: Candida albicans (opportunistic lesion), thrush, petechiae (oral and facial mucosa), melanin hyperpigmentation at the gingival level. Antifungal treatment results are presented.

Objective. To describe the design of the SABE Colombia study. The major health study of the old people in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is the Survey on Health, Well-Being, and Aging in LAC, SABE (from initials in Spanish: SAlud, Bienestar & Envejecimiento). Methods. The SABE Colombia is a population-based cross-sectional study on health, aging, and well-being of elderly individuals aged at least 60 years focusing attention on social determinants of health inequities. Methods and design were similar to original LAC SABE. The total sample size of the study at the urban and rural research sites (244 municipalities) was 23.694 elderly Colombians representative of the total population. The study had three components: (1) a questionnaire covering active aging determinants including anthropometry, blood pressure measurement, physical function, and biochemical and hematological measures; (2) a subsample survey among family caregivers; (3) a qualitative study with gender and cultural perspectives of quality of life to understand different dimensions of people meanings. Conclusions. The SABE Colombia is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary study of the elderly with respect to active aging determinants. The results of this study are intended to inform public policies aimed at tackling health inequalities for the aging society in Colombia.

Objective: To describe the experiences of older adults around forced displacement due to the Colombian armed conflict. Methods: Interpretive-comprehensive study, with a hermeneutical approach; several types of sampling were carried out. The participants were 12 people aged over 60 years, who reported having being displaced and who participated in the SABE Colombia Survey. The data were encoded using the Atlas.ti software. A process of condensation of central analytical, support and emerging categories was made. Results: The displacement generated by the armed conflict has been decisive in the current life conditions of the participants. They know that they are survivors of someone else's violence; there is dislocation, loss of territory, de-anchoring, lack of protection and insecurity. To the stigma of old age, it is added being displaced and being strangers in a place where they don’t belong. They live the violent uprooting of their lands and the confusion of their identity; they found themselves in a foreign scene where they were the unusual and the strangers; from receiving threats, they passed to be labeled as ‘threatening’. This forced displacement stems from violence, but also from fear, and it marks the trajectory of life for older people who experience a prolonged struggle for survival in often hostile environments, living "permanently" displaced. Conclusion: When there is displacement, older people are not only shed of their land and their home, but also from their cosmos and their vital referents; in addition, it changes their life trajectory and their place in the world. Interventions should be designed based on specific particular and contextual analyses.

Con el fin de conocer la prevalencia de la asistencia a la consulta dental de las gestantes atendidas en Cali-Colombia, e identificar factores socioeconómicos y de los servicios de salud asociados con la accesibilidad a la atención odontológica durante el embarazo, se realizó un estudio transversal analítico, en el que se entrevistaron 993 madres en puerperio inmediato que habían sido atendidas en clínicas pública y privadas durante el año 2012. El análisis multivariado de las variables relacionadas con las asistencia a odontología encontró asociación con los recursos económicos (86,6% suficiencia versus 72,5% insuficiencia, OR = 1,8; IC95%: 1,1-2,8), nivel de instrucción (88% secundaria completa versus 74% incompleta, OR = 1,7; IC95%: 1,1-2,7), información dada en el control prenatal sobre salud oral y la visita dental (86,4% si versus 42,9% no, OR = 5,7; IC95%: 3,1-10,0). Se evidencia un acceso diferencial entre las gestantes con bajo nivel socioeconómico, quienes asistieron en menor proporción que las gestantes con mejores condiciones de vida.