El Aseguramiento Universal en Salud constituye una de las principales políticas públicas impulsadas en la última década en nuestro país, y se ha mantenido por más de cuatro administraciones nacionales en la agenda política. Los avances en este proceso pueden verse reflejados en el incremento en la cobertura de afiliación a algún tipo de seguro de salud, que para el caso del Seguro Integral de Salud (SIS), fue ampliada de 19,4% en el año 2006 a 50,2% para el año 2015 (Encuesta Nacional de Hogares – ENAHO). Sin embargo, es posible evidenciar que mientras en el 2006 el 44,9% de los afiliados al SIS buscaban atención por problemas de salud en establecimientos del MINSA o de las redes de salud públicas de los Gobiernos Regionales, en el año 2015 este porcentaje disminuyó a 31,7%. Estos resultados obligan a prestar atención a otros factores que estarían restringiendo la mejora en el acceso a los servicios de salud, especialmente en pobladores pobres protegidos financieramente. Entre los retos para incrementar la cobertura prestacional se encuentran la brecha de infraestructura y equipamiento de servicios de salud, la poca articulación de los establecimientos de salud del primer nivel de atención, la subutilización de la oferta pública existente y recurso humano no bien remunerado con escasos o nulos incentivos.
Objetivos. Estimar la frecuencia del autorreporte de accidente de tránsito como antecedente en el último año en la población general y determinar qué factores se encuentran asociados. Materiales y métodos. Se realizó un análisis
The prevalence of self-reporting of road traffic accidents in the last year was very high compared to similar studies and other reporting sources. The variables associated with having had a traffic accident were: living in the jungle area, being male, legal drug use in the last month, especially alcohol and medical drug use in the last month. It is necessary to think carefully about the information system of the road traffic accidents in order to achieve a better picture of the problem putting emphasis in the legal drugs use.
The Rimac river is the main source of water for Lima, Peru’s capital megacity. The river is constantly affected by different types of contamination including mine tailings in the Andes and urban sewage in the metropolitan area. In this work, we aim to produce the first characterization of aquatic bacterial communities in the Rimac river using a 16S rRNA metabarcoding approach which would be useful to identify bacterial diversity and potential understudied pathogens. We report a lower diversity in bacterial communities from the Lower Rimac (Metropolitan zone) in comparison to other sub-basins. Samples were generally grouped according to their geographical location. Bacterial classes Alphaproteobacteria, Bacteroidia, Campylobacteria, Fusobacteriia, and Gammaproteobacteria were the most frequent along the river. Arcobacter cryaerophilus (Campylobacteria) was the most frequent species in the Lower Rimac while Flavobacterium succinicans (Bacteroidia) and Hypnocyclicus (Fusobacteriia) were the most predominant in the Upper Rimac. Predicted metabolic functions in the microbiota include bacterial motility and quorum sensing. Additional metabolomic analyses showed the presence of some insecticides and herbicides in the Parac-Upper Rimac and Santa Eulalia-Parac sub-basins. The dominance in the Metropolitan area of Arcobacter cryaerophilus, an emergent pathogen associated with fecal contamination and antibiotic multiresistance, that is not usually reported in traditional microbiological quality assessments, highlights the necessity to apply next-generation sequencing tools to improve pathogen surveillance. We believe that our study will encourage the integration of omics sciences in Peru and its application on current environmental and public health issues.
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