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Background: As alternative for patients that fear genital examination, we assessed adolescent's comfort and ease with self-collected samples for nucleic acid amplification testing for sexually transmitted infections. Patients and Methods: Sexually active Chilean adolescents and youth under 25 yea...

Objectives. To investigate the perceptions of primary health workers (PHW) about the challenges of health care for migrants. Materials and methods. A qualitative multicase study was conducted in eight communes of Chile, using the snowball technique, where 101 PHW and local authorities were recrui...

An outbreak of meningococcal disease with a case-fatality rate of 30% and caused by predominantly serogroup W of Neisseria meningitidis began in Chile in 2012. This outbreak required a case−control study to assess determinants and risk factors for infection. We identified confirmed cases during J...

After a major earthquake, the assignment of scarce mental health emergency personnel to different geographic areas is crucial to the effective management of the crisis. The scarce information that is available in the aftermath of a disaster may be valuable in helping predict where are the populat...

In lieu of the evidence of causality between prenatal ZIKA virus infection and the development of microcephaly and other fetal cerebral anomalies, published in 2016, there has been a surge of uncertainty in Latin America over the access to abortion in pregnant women infected by the virus. Even th...

A 28-year-old, otherwise healthy Chilean man presented in December 2015 with fever, headache, and myalgia. He had returned, 2 days ago, from a tourist trip to Colombia, where he had visited Bogota and the northern region including Cartagena de Indias, Santa Marta, and Tayrona National Park. Durin...

ABSTRACT: The aim of this survey was to describe the knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding oral cancer in a sample of dentists from Las Condes, Santiago de Chile. A descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted. A self-filling survey was applied to 264 dentists of Las Condes, Santiago d...

At an international level, different researches have pointed out the importance of taking into account opinions of children and adolescents in order to study their subjective wellbeing. Reviewing scientific literature, it is recognized that wellbeing is, specially, affected by microsystems such a...

This paper provides a multidimensional study based on data and text mining of prosecuted disputes on water rights in Chile, and an analysis of the state’s capacity, particularly of the institutions related to water regulation. This study shows not only a substantial increase of legal disputes reg...