Los accidentes de tráfico desde el punto de vista de los medios impresos. Guadalajara, México 2011 = The Road-Traffic Accidents from the Point of View of the Print Mass Media. Guadalajara, Mexico 2011

Resumen: Introducción. Los medios de comunicación tienen un papel importante en la Salud Pública al informar a la población. Uno de los temas que más ha cobrado interés en nuestro país son los accidentes de tráfico, por lo que nos interesa analizar el papel de los medios en este problema de salud. Objetivo. Analizar el contenido de las notas periodísticas relacionadas con siniestros viales, publicados en abril y mayo de 2011. Material y métodos. Es un estudio de análisis de contenido acumulativo que recabó notas periodísticas de tres diarios con distribución en Guadadalajara, México; las cuales fueron clasificadas de acuerdo al tipo de nota y posteriormente, para la codificación solamente se consideraron las piezas informativas, con los que se conformaron categorías. Resultados. Durante el período se captaron 196 notas periodísticas, de éstas 112 fueron reportes de evento, 78 piezas informativas, principalmente. De la codificación resultaron tres categorías principales: actores involucrados, causalidad y medidas para la disminución de accidentes. Conclusión. Los medios impresos no están siendo aprovechados para ofrecer información a la población sobre medidas preventivas y factores de riesgo, la mayor parte de la notas no exponen las causas de los accidentes de tráfico describen el evento y fincan responsabilidades. Palabras clave: accidentes de tránsito, prevención de accidentes, artículo de periódico, análisis cualitativo Abstract: Background. The media have an important role on Public Health to provide information to the population. In the country, traffic accidents are an important topic, that is the reason for analyze the print media role in the traffic accidents. Objective. Analyze the Content of News from Print Media about Road-Traffic Accidents, published between April and May, 2011. Material and Methods. It´s a Summative Content Analysis that included News Reports of three Newspapers with distribution in Guadalajara, Mexico. Those news reports were classified by the content and then, for the codification only included informative notes, which ones formed category. Results. During the period, we captured 196 news reports, of these 112 were reports on crash, 78 informational pieces, principally. From codification resulted three mainly category: stakeholders, causality and actions for reducing accidents. Conclusions. The Print Mass Media are being underestimate to provide information about prevention and risks factors, because most of news reports did not expose causes of the Road-Traffic accidents but described the road-traffic accident and they looked for responsibilities. Keywords: traffic accident, accident prevention, newspaper article, qualitative analysi

Importance of social and health-related problems: Do Spaniards give them the significance they actually deserve?

Social and health problems imply an impact on society. The main objective of this study is to provide an overview of how Spanish people perceive cancer, terrorism, cardiovascular diseases, crime, AIDS, drugs, and traffic accidents, finding out whether they assess the importance of these issues in correspondence with their actual severity. The study used a full sample of 1206 Spaniards (51.6% females and 48.4% males) who responded to a computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) survey on the significance of these social and health-related problems, assessed through a zero to ten Likert scale. The perceived severity of the problems was considered taking into account the official data of deaths reported by governmental institutions. For the comparison of mean values, the One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) test was used. Results show high average values for all the problems. The most concerning elements are cancer (M = 9.28 ± 1.24) and terrorism (M = 9.22 ± 1.47). Cardiovascular diseases have the lowest scores (M = 8.29 ± 1.64). There is a good adjustment between real and subjective perception, but some issues are either underestimated or overestimated. Women assessed all of them as more important than men, and people over 65 gave all the issues more value than younger people. It is important that Spaniards understand the objective severity of these issues, thus allowing for more interventions by governments, education, and mass media

Persistence of COVID-19 Symptoms after Recovery in Mexican Population

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a highly contagious infectious disease that has caused many deaths worldwide. Despite global efforts, it continues to cause great losses, and leaving multiple unknowns that we must resolve in order to face the pandemic more effectively. One of the questions that has arisen recently is what happens, after recovering from COVID-19. For this reason, the objective of this study is to identify the risk of presenting persistent symptoms in recovered from COVID-19. This case-control study was conducted in one state of Mexico. Initially the data were obtained from the participants, through a questionnaire about symptoms that they had at the moment of the interview. Initially were captured the collected data, to make a dataset. After the pre-processed using the R project tool to eliminate outliers or missing data. Obtained finally a total of 219 participants, 141 recovered and 78 controls. It was used confidence level of 90% and a margin of error of 7%. From results it was obtained that all symptoms have an associated risk in those recovered. The relative risk of the selected symptoms in the recovered patients goes from 3 to 22 times, being infinite for the case of dyspnea, due to the fact that there is no control that presents this symptom at the moment of the interview, followed by the nausea and the anosmia with a RR of 8.5. Therefore, public health strategies must be rethought, to treat or rehabilitate, avoiding chronic problems in patients recovered from COVID-19

Magnetic operations: a little fuzzy physics?

We examine the behaviour of charged particles in homogeneous, constant and/or oscillating magnetic fields in the non-relativistic approximation. A special role of the geometric center of the particle trajectory is elucidated. In quantum case it becomes a 'fuzzy point' with non-commuting coordinates, an element of non-commutative geometry which enters into the traditional control problems. We show that its application extends beyond the usually considered time independent magnetic fields of the quantum Hall effect. Some simple cases of magnetic control by oscillating fields lead to the stability maps differing from the traditional Strutt diagram.Comment: 28 pages, 8 figure

The Newcastle satisfaction with nursing scales in a Mexican Oncology Hospital

Objectives. The principal aim of this study was to identify whether the Newcastle Satisfaction with Nursing Scales (NSNS) could be used on cancer patients. Methods. This was a descriptive, cross-sectional study carried out on cancer patients (n = 298). Results. We found that a majority of cancer patients were around 50 years old (hospitalized patients [HP]: 49.5 \ub1 14.9; chemotherapy outpatients [COP]: 49.4 \ub1 12.7), were female (HP: 74%; COP: 63.5%), and had received education at least up to elementary level (HP: 70%; COP: 80%). Breast cancer was the principal type of cancer (>34%) in both groups (HP and COP). The groups were comparable in age, sex distribution, place of origin, educational qualification, and type of cancer. Among HP, the experience and satisfaction scales of the NSNS showed good internal consistency (n = 235, \u3b1 >0.9, r > 0.7), while among COP, only the satisfaction scale showed good internal consistency (n = 62, \u3b1 = 1.00). Most patients\u2019 perceptions (level of satisfaction) of hospitalization and chemotherapy services were positive (98% and 97%, respectively). Conclusion: An NSNS instrument specifically designed for ambulatory care cancer patients is necessary for it to be useful in assessing cancer patients' perception of nursing care. This will help improve the quality of care in Mexico. The presence of cancer by itself could modify the patients\u2019 satisfaction level. Further large-scale studies are required to investigate the patients\u2019 perceptions of nursing care using the NSNS on different cancer patient groups