Propuesta de un programa psicolaboral de factores de riesgos ergonómicos y factores psicosociales en la institución del Ministerio de Obras Públicas y de Transporte (MOPT) en el plantel "La Lechuza", municipio de San Salvador.

En la presente investigación se realizó un diagnóstico de los factores de riesgos ergonómicos y factores psicosociales presentes en el Ministerio de Obras Públicas y de Trasporte (MOPT). Esta temática es de gran importancia ya que en el contexto salvadoreño existe muy poca investigación en relación a la misma. Para ello, se elaboraron instrumentos de recolección de datos que identificaron los factores de estudio con mayor incidencia en los colaboradores. Con la aplicación de estos instrumentos se detectó que las condiciones que mayormente afectan a los trabajadores son: posturas de trabajo, contenido del trabajo y esfuerzo mental. A partir de los resultados se diseñó un programa psicolaboral de capacitaciones, con el objetivo de abordar las problemáticas encontradas. Dicho programa está enfocado en el aprendizaje vivencial, esto con la finalidad de reducir significativamente los niveles de estrés presentes en los colaboradores, así como prevenir el desarrollo de trastornos musculo-esqueléticos, promoviendo así la salud integral de los empleados y al mismo tiempo mejorando el desarrollo organizacional dentro de la institución. Palabras clave: Riesgos ergonómicos ; Factores psicosociales ; Salud integral ; Trastornos musculo-esqueléticos ; Estrés ; Programa psicolaboral

The Association between Dust Storms and Daily Non-Accidental Mortality in the United States, 1993–2005

BACKGROUND: The impact of dust storms on human health has been studied in the context of Asian, Saharan, Arabian, and Australian storms, but there has been no recent population-level epidemiological research on the dust storms in North America. The relevance of dust storms to public health is likely to increase as extreme weather events are predicted to become more frequent with anticipated changes in climate through the 21st century. OBJECTIVES: We examined the association between dust storms and county-level non-accidental mortality in the United States from 1993 through 2005. METHODS: Dust storm incidence data, including date and approximate location, are taken from the U.S. National Weather Service storm database. County-level mortality data for the years 1993-2005 were acquired from the National Center for Health Statistics. Distributed lag conditional logistic regression models under a time-stratified case-crossover design were used to study the relationship between dust storms and daily mortality counts over the whole United States and in Arizona and California specifically. End points included total non-accidental mortality and three mortality subgroups (cardiovascular, respiratory, and other non-accidental). RESULTS: We estimated that for the United States as a whole, total non-accidental mortality increased by 7.4% (95% CI: 1.6, 13.5; p = 0.011) and 6.7% (95% CI: 1.1, 12.6; p = 0.018) at 2- and 3-day lags, respectively, and by an average of 2.7% (95% CI: 0.4, 5.1; p = 0.023) over lags 0-5 compared with referent days. Significant associations with non-accidental mortality were estimated for California (lag 2 and 0-5 day) and Arizona (lag 3), for cardiovascular mortality in the United States (lag 2) and Arizona (lag 3), and for other non-accidental mortality in California (lags 1-3 and 0-5). CONCLUSIONS: Dust storms are associated with increases in lagged non-accidental and cardiovascular mortality. Citation: Crooks JL, Cascio WE, Percy MS, Reyes J, Neas LM, Hilborn ED. 2016. The association between dust storms and daily non-accidental mortality in the United States, 1993-2005. Environ Health Perspect 124:1735-1743; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP216

The ISB Cancer Genomics Cloud: A Flexible Cloud-Based Platform for Cancer Genomics Research.

The ISB Cancer Genomics Cloud (ISB-CGC) is one of three pilot projects funded by the National Cancer Institute to explore new approaches to computing on large cancer datasets in a cloud environment. With a focus on Data as a Service, the ISB-CGC offers multiple avenues for accessing and analyzing The Cancer Genome Atlas, TARGET, and other important references such as GENCODE and COSMIC using the Google Cloud Platform. The open approach allows researchers to choose approaches best suited to the task at hand: from analyzing terabytes of data using complex workflows to developing new analysis methods in common languages such as Python, R, and SQL; to using an interactive web application to create synthetic patient cohorts and to explore the wealth of available genomic data. Links to resources and documentation can be found at www.isb-cgc.or

The Relation Between Descriptive Norms, Suicide Ideation, and Suicide Attempts Among Adolescents

This study examined the relationship between adolescents\u27 beliefs about the prevalence of youth suicide ideation (ideation descriptive norms) and suicide attempts (attempt descriptive norms) with self-reported suicide ideation and attempts. Descriptive norms, suicide ideation, and suicide attempts as well as gender, race/ethnicity, and exposure to family, peer, and others\u27 suicide were assessed in 2,109 students at six suburban New York State high schools. After controlling for demographic variables and exposure to suicide, elevated ideation descriptive norms and attempt descriptive norms were associated with higher rates of suicide ideation and lifetime suicide attempts among adolescents. Adolescents who believed suicide ideation and attempts to be more widespread among peers (i.e., elevated ideation and attempt descriptive norms) were more likely to endorse suicide ideation and attempts. Correcting these descriptive norms may be a worthwhile goal for school-based suicide prevention programs

Prevalencia de neuropatía periférica distal de miembros inferiores en pacientes con diagnóstico reciente de diabetes mellitus

Objetivo. Determinar la prevalencia de neuropatía periférica distal en pacientes con diagnóstico reciente de Diabetes Mellitus atendidos en la consulta externa de medicina interna y endocrinología del Hospital General San Juan de Dios, Hospital Roosevelt, Centro Médico Militar, Patronato del Diabético y Hospital de la Policía Nacional Civil, Guatemala, mayo y junio 2012. Metodología. Estudio transversal realizado en 100 pacientes de ambos sexos cuyas edades comprendieron de 14 a 60 años

El cómic en las bibliotecas públicas: propuesta de difusión web para bibliotecas y lectores

Is presented the comic as bibliographic resource of great potential for public libraries, their treatment as such and technical aspects related to the acquisition and processing. As support, a site that can be consulted by readers and librarians, based on the prototype "Comicteca Web" is proposed.Se presenta el cómic como recurso bibliográfico de gran potencial para las bibliotecas públicas, su tratamiento como tal y los aspectos técnicos relacionados con su adquisición y procesamiento. Como apoyo, se propone un sitio que pueda ser consultado por lectores y bibliotecarios, en base al prototipo �ComictecaWe

The Association between Dust Storms and Daily Non-Accidental Mortality in the United States, 1993–2005

BACKGROUND: The impact of dust storms on human health has been studied in the context of Asian, Saharan, Arabian, and Australian storms, but there has been no recent population-level epidemiological research on the dust storms in North America. The relevance of dust storms to public health is likely to increase as extreme weather events are predicted to become more frequent with anticipated changes in climate through the 21st century. OBJECTIVES: We examined the association between dust storms and county-level non-accidental mortality in the United States from 1993 through 2005. METHODS: Dust storm incidence data, including date and approximate location, are taken from the U.S. National Weather Service storm database. County-level mortality data for the years 1993–2005 were acquired from the National Center for Health Statistics. Distributed lag conditional logistic regression models under a time-stratified case-crossover design were used to study the relationship between dust storms and daily mortality counts over the whole United States and in Arizona and California specifically. End points included total non-accidental mortality and three mortality subgroups (cardiovascular, respiratory, and other non-accidental). RESULTS: We estimated that for the United States as a whole, total non-accidental mortality increased by 7.4% (95% CI: 1.6, 13.5; p = 0.011) and 6.7% (95% CI: 1.1, 12.6; p = 0.018) at 2- and 3-day lags, respectively, and by an average of 2.7% (95% CI: 0.4, 5.1; p = 0.023) over lags 0–5 compared with referent days. Significant associations with non-accidental mortality were estimated for California (lag 2 and 0–5 day) and Arizona (lag 3), for cardiovascular mortality in the United States (lag 2) and Arizona (lag 3), and for other non-accidental mortality in California (lags 1–3 and 0–5). CONCLUSIONS: Dust storms are associated with increases in lagged non-accidental and cardiovascular mortality. CITATION: Crooks JL, Cascio WE, Percy MS, Reyes J, Neas LM, Hilborn ED. 2016. The association between dust storms and daily non-accidental mortality in the United States, 1993–2005. Environ Health Perspect 124:1735–1743; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP21