Analysis of the traditional methods of education and learning of the collective sports in the primary education and innovative didactic proposals

[Resumen] La metodología empleada en la enseñanza de los deportes colectivos en los centros educativos está desactualizada. El profesorado implicado no valora la evolución que este ámbito sufrió en las últimas décadas y sigue echando mano de los procesos educativos más tradicionales provocando grandes fracasos en el aprendizaje de dichos deportes. Este trabajo realiza una profunda revisión bibliográfica y elabora una unidad didáctica para un aula de sexto de educación primaria. Esta intervención educativa se basa en las técnicas de enseñanza y aprendizaje de los modelos comprensivos, cognitivos, integrados y constructivistas[Abstract] The methodology employed in the education of the collective sports in the educational centres is not updated. The professors involved do not value the evolution that this field suffered in the last decades and follow resorting to the educational processes but traditional causing big failures in the learning of these sports. This work realises a deep bibliographic review and elaborates a didactic unit for a classroom of sixth of primary education. This educational intervention bases in the technicians of education an learning of the understanding models, cognitive, integrated and consturctivis

Adaptaciones sobre una unidad didáctica de expresión corporal para mejorar la interacción en el aula de primaria de alumnado con Síndrome de Asperger

El Síndrome de Asperger es un trastorno que cuenta cada vez con mayor presencia en la enseñanza de Educación Primaria, por lo que es importante que el docente sea capaz de proporcionar al alumnado con este Síndrome las herramientas necesarias para mejorar su interacción en el aula. A raíz de las características específicas del Síndrome de Asperger, se propone el diseño de un proyecto de intervención educativa para un aula de primero de Educación Primaria, que incluye una serie de estrategias para trabajar a través de la Expresión Corporal en el área de Educación Física, orientadas principalmente a la mejora de la comunicación y expresión del alumnado en general y, concretamente, de los diagnosticados con Síndrome de AspergerS

Sars-Cov-2 Infection in Patients on Long-Term Treatment with Macrolides in Spain: A National Cross-Sectional Study

The aim of this study was to know the prevalence and severity of COVID-19 in patients treated with long-term macrolides and to describe the factors associated with worse outcomes. A cross-sectional study was conducted in Primary Care setting. Patients with macrolides dispensed continuously from 1 October 2019 to 31 March 2020, were considered. Main outcome: diagnosis of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19). Secondary outcomes: symptoms, severity, characteristics of patients, comorbidities, concomitant treatments. A total of 3057 patients met the inclusion criteria. Median age: 73 (64–81) years; 55% were men; 62% smokers/ex-smokers; 56% obese/overweight. Overall, 95% of patients had chronic respiratory diseases and four comorbidities as a median. Prevalence of COVID-19: 4.8%. This was in accordance with official data during the first wave of the pandemic. The most common symptoms were respiratory: shortness of breath, cough, and pneumonia. Additionally, 53% percent of patients had mild/moderate symptoms, 28% required hospital admission, and 19% died with COVID-19. The percentage of patients hospitalized and deaths were 2.6 and 5.8 times higher, respectively, in the COVID-19 group (p < 0.001). There was no evidence of a beneficial effect of long-term courses of macrolides in preventing SARS-CoV-2 infection or the progression to worse outcomes in old patients with underlying chronic respiratory diseases and a high burden of comorbidity

Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents’ growth and development

Optimal growth and development in childhood and adolescence is crucial for lifelong health and well-being1–6. Here we used data from 2,325 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight from 71 million participants, to report the height and body-mass index (BMI) of children and adolescents aged 5–19 years on the basis of rural and urban place of residence in 200 countries and territories from 1990 to 2020. In 1990, children and adolescents residing in cities were taller than their rural counterparts in all but a few high-income countries. By 2020, the urban height advantage became smaller in most countries, and in many high-income western countries it reversed into a small urban-based disadvantage. The exception was for boys in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa and in some countries in Oceania, south Asia and the region of central Asia, Middle East and north Africa. In these countries, successive cohorts of boys from rural places either did not gain height or possibly became shorter, and hence fell further behind their urban peers. The difference between the age-standardized mean BMI of children in urban and rural areas was <1.1 kg m–2 in the vast majority of countries. Within this small range, BMI increased slightly more in cities than in rural areas, except in south Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and some countries in central and eastern Europe. Our results show that in much of the world, the growth and developmental advantages of living in cities have diminished in the twenty-first century, whereas in much of sub-Saharan Africa they have amplified

Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

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