6 research outputs found
States Of Discontent
Latin America’s recent inclusionary turn centers on changing relationships between the popular sectors and the state. Yet the new inclusion unfolds in a region in which most states are weak and prone to severe pathologies, such as corruption, inefficiency, and particularism. The first part of the chapter outlines an argument, developed at more length elsewhere, regarding how “state crises” helped drive the consolidation of three distinct party system trajectories among the eight South American countries where the Left would eventually win power. The second part of the chapter argues that these trajectories differed in three ways that likely conditioned how the concomitant inclusionary Left turn unfolded in each case: the institutionalization of left-wing parties, the occurrence of state transformation via constitutional reform, and the level of state capacity. The discussion helps highlight the central role of the state and its pathologies in both driving alternative paths of political development and in conditioning the politics of inclusion. By putting the emphasis on the state and its pathologies, we can better consider not just the sources of sociopolitical exclusion but also the limits of sociopolitical inclusion
La funcion de las minorias religiosas : el caso del Protestantismo chileno en el período 1973-1981 del gobierno militar
NA(Docteur en Sociologie) -- UCL, 198
La fonction des minorités religieuses : le cas du protestantisme chilien dans le période du gouvernement militaire, 1973-1981
NA(Docteur en Sociologie) -- UCL, 198
Hemolytic-uremic syndrome in Chile: clinical features, evolution and prognostic factors
Background: Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) is characterized by acute
renal failure, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia and thrombocytopenia. Aim: To describe the
characteristics of patients with the diagnosis of HUS in Chile, and to identify the most reliable early
predictors of morbidity and mortality. Material and methods: The clinical records of patients with
HUS aged less than 15 years, attended between January 1990 and December 2003 in 15 hospitals,
were reviewed. Demographic, clinical, biochemical, hematological parameters, morbidity and
mortality were analyzed. Results: A cohort of 587 patients aged 2 to 8 years, 48% males, was
analyzed. Ninety two percent had diarrhea. At the moment of diagnosis, anuria was observed in
39% of the patients, hypertension in 45% and seizures in 17%. Forty two percent required renal
replacement therapy (RRT) and peritoneal dialysis was used in the majority of cases (78%). The most
frequently isolated etiological agent was Escherichia coli. Mortality rate was 2.9% in the acute phase
of the disease and there was a positive correlation between mortality and anuria, seizures, white
blood cell count (WCC) >20.000/mm3 and requirements of renal replacement therapy (p <0.05).
Twelve percent of patients evolved to chronic renal failure and the risk factors during the acute
phase were the need for renal replacement therapy, anuria, WCC >20.000/mm3, seizures and
hypertension. Conclusions: The present study emphasizes important clinical and epidemiological
aspects of HUS in a Chilean pediatric population