Antes, hablar de felicidad era un campo exclusivamente de filósofos. No existía la idea de que ésta pudiera ser tan comentada y analizada. Este documento se aproxima al mundo latinoamericano, que presenta una enorme paradoja. Países con altos niveles de suicidio juvenil, de corrupción y/o violenc...
I like to think that I came upon the history of Project Cybersyn, the 1970s Chilean computer
network for economic management, because I was looking in the right place, and because it was
a place that few in the history of technology had visited. I was a doctoral student at MIT, and I
wanted to le...
Various methodologies have been proposed to assess the overall quality of diet, but there are no specific indicators in Latin America. The purpose of this work was to propose a Healthy Eating Index according to the recommendations of the Chilean Ministry of Health and to validate their applicatio...
We study the economic cost of dementia in Chile, and its variation according to socioeconomic status (SES). We use primary data from a survey of 330 informal primary caregivers who completed both a RUD-Lite and a socio-demographic questionnaire to evaluate the severity of dementia and caregiver’s...
Echinococcosis is a neglected zoonotic disease affecting over 1 million people worldwide at any given time. It is the leading cause of hospital admissions for parasitic diseases in Chile. We conducted a retrospective investigation of hospitalized cases to describe the epidemiological trends of ec...
BACKGROUND:
There is increasing evidence for the hypothesis that lithium salts at naturally occurring levels in drinking water may have a moderating effect on suicide rates of the exposed population. The aim of this study was to examine whether the lithium rich Atacama region in Chile is associat...
Existen diversos grupos que por sus características particulares de vulnerabilidad, presentan importantes inequidades en los resultados en salud, debiendo entonces ser considerados para un abordaje especial. Uno de ellos corresponde a personas inmigrantes. La inmigración es un reconocido determin...
Existen diversos grupos que por sus características particulares de vulnerabilidad, presentan importantes inequidades en los resultados en salud, debiendo entonces ser considerados para un abordaje especial. Uno de ellos corresponde a personas inmigrantes. La inmigración es un reconocido determin...
INTRODUCTION Health systems are one determinant of health; their role is to facilitate timely and equitable access to quality services. The way in which a health system is organized can profoundly affect achievement of its objectives. The main feature of the Chilean health system is the coexisten...
INTRODUCTION Changes in the conceptualization of health and illness have led to development of
theory and methods to study healthrelated quality of life. One instrument used frequently to
measure this concept is the SF-12 survey, included in the Second National Health Survey carried out
in Chile ...
El inicio del presente texto tiene origen en largas conversaciones y reflexiones acerca del entorno cotidiano del Hombre, cómo nos relacionamos con él y cómo ha cambiado esto a lo largo de la historia.
La necesidad de dar explicación a la desconexión que vivimos hoy día respecto del origen de lo...
