Browsing by Author "Medina,"
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Csendes Juhasz, Attila; Braghetto Miranda, Italo; Smok Sahid, Gladys; Nava,; Medina, (1992)A cooperative study involving 13 hospitals in Chile allowed the analysis of 353 patients with gastric cancer in early stages. 82 cancers were located at the mucosal level, 151 at the submucosa and 120 reached the muscular ...
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Active epidemiologic surveillance of tuberculosis Vigilancia epidemiológica activa en tuberculosis. Medina, (1994)With 5,000 new active cases each year, tuberculosis in Chile remains as the most important communicable disease in the country. Since the type of control programs are linked to the epidemiologic situation as far as infection, ...
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Cornejo Cornejo, Jacqueline Alejandra; Medina,; Mascaró,; Matus,; Muñoz Muñoz, E. C.; Castillo, Andrea (1994)The aim of this work was to study the prevalence, behavior and opinions towards smoking in a sample of 288 physicians from Santiago, stratified according to sex and specialty. The WHO Europe questionnaire was applied and ...
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Ravera,; Medina,; López López, J. A. (1991)204 pts with breast cancer were compared to 208 pts of similar age, with pathologies other than cancer, to assess the frequency of biological and social factors related to breast cancer, in Chilean females. The pts with ...
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Medina, (1994)The joined initiative of the University of Chile, the Health institutions, the Bacteriological Institute and the Rockefeller Foundation support allowed the creation of the School of Public Health. A group of skilled and ...
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Medina,; Kaempffer,; Cornejo Cornejo, Jacqueline Alejandra; Hernández,; Wall, (1994)Results of morbidity and medical care surveys of the Santiago's population are presented in this paper. A random sample of 1,000 dwellings with 4,700 people was selected and studied 3 times, in 1993 and 1994. All health ...
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Medina,; Kaempffer, (1992)Hospital bed availability, trends in number of beds, productivity and administrative aspects in the public and private hospital sectors are analyzed. At present, there are 3.3 beds per 1000 population in Chile. This ...
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Csendes Juhasz, Attila; Smok Sahid, Gladys; Medina,; Salgado,; Rivera, Sebastián; Quitral Robles, Vilma (1992)The clinical, surgical and histopathologic characteristics of patients with gastric cancer were compared among 3 consecutive periods from 1958 to 1990. A significant increase in the frequency of location at the upper third ...
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Medina,; Arteaga,; Pizarro Pizarro, Daniel Iván; Ahumada, (1990)The relation between cigarette smoking and obstetrical history, characteristics of skin and voice, presence of hirsutism and newborn weight/height index was studied in 100 hospitalized women. 45 had never smoked, 36 were ...
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Medina,; Kaempffer, (1990)The health situation in Chile is analyzed. The influence of geographic, ethnic, racial, demographic, socio-economic and cultural factors is considered. Strategies for prevention depend on the epidemiologic status of ...
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Medina,; Kaempffer, (1992)Main features of hospital stay in Chile are analyzed with special regard to incidence, geographic, sex and age variations, main causes and trends observed in the last decades. The annual admission rate in 1989 was 107 per ...
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Medina,; Kaempffer, (1993)Liver cirrhosis is an important public health problem in Chile, accounting for 5% of all deaths, proportion that has increased 24 fold in the last 60 years. Chile has the highest death rate for cirrhosis in America and the ...
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Csendes Juhasz, Attila; Medina,; Smok Sahid, Gladys; Korn Bruzzone, Owen (1993)The aim of this work was to determine the 5 and 12 years survival of 233 patients with gastric cancer subjected to subtotal gastrectomy. Patients with early gastric cancer (n = 51) had a 95% survival and those with ...
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Medina,; Kaempffer,; Cornejo Cornejo, Jacqueline Alejandra; Hernández,; Wall, (1995)Results of morbidity and medical care surveys performed in Santiago in 1993-94 are presented in this paper. The study has been done in an aleatory population sample of 4,700 people coming from 1,000 dwellings. Main results ...
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Medina, (1990)The majority of Chilean physicians work as specialists, mainly as internists, surgeons pediatricians or gynaecologists. The number is higher in Santiago than in other parts of the country, with a better supply in the ...
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Csendes Juhasz, Attila; Alvarez Alvarez, Miguel Adrián; Medina,; Campos Campos, Maritza Pamela; Blanco,; Guell,; Jeria, (1995)The aim of this work was to study the prevalence of biliary diseases and digestive symptoms in normal adult women. Four hundred nineteen women were chosen; of these 145 were discarded due to previous gastrointestinal ...
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Medina, (1992)According to national data the Chilean adult population on the average has 2.5 annual ambulatory visits with an increasing trend in the last decade. The figure has significant variation in the diverse geographic regions. ...
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Medina,; Kaempffer,; Cornejo Cornejo, Jacqueline Alejandra; Hernández, (1995)The aim of this work was to study smoking habits, alcohol and drug use and living standards in a random sample of 1000 dwellings and 4700 people of Santiago through periodic surveys during 1993 and 1994. Forty nine percent ...