Jossie Aspauza, experta en Outplacement y con experiencia como Vicepresidente y Directora General de Herbalife para Centro y Sudamérica hará el webinar este 1 de julio a las 6pm. Nos dará los tips para mejorar tu método de búsqueda de empleo y las consideraciones a tener en cuenta en este proceso de búsqueda dentro del entorno COVID-19.

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Dr. Rodrigo Rondón, director de la carrera de veterinaria UPC. / ¿Qué cuidados de prevención Covid -19 debo tener al llevar a mis mascota a la veterinaria? por el Dr. Rodrigo Rondón

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / During the last two years, women of reproductive age (WRA) have experienced uncertainty about the COVID-19 vaccine, particularly as it relates to reproductive health (e.g., fertility) due to the COVID-19 infodemic. Because WRA are a pivotal population in pandemic control, it is important to understand how WRA manage vaccine-related uncertainty. Uncertainty management theory (UMT) considers the complexities of uncertainty, acknowledging that individual appraisals of, and responses to, uncertainty may vary from person to person and evolve over time. This study examined factors contributing to WRA’s hesitancy to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, including uncertainty about potential side effects, concern about safety and efficacy, and conflicting information. WRA most frequently felt neutral towards their uncertainty; however, negative emotional responses to uncertainty played an influential role in many WRA’s responses to uncertainty (e.g., avoiding information, seeking information, receiving the COVID-19 vaccine). The findings of this study provided insight on how WRA have experienced uncertainty about the COVID-19 vaccine, including their emotional responses to and subsequent appraisals of their uncertainty which ultimately influenced their responses.

As the COVID-19 pandemic has taken hold of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and the world, it has highlighted many challenges healthcare workers face. Those nurses working in the emergency room (ER), settings that are under normal circumstances unpredictable and acute, have been particularly affected. This research aimed to explore the stories ER nurses tell to describe their experiences of working during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto, Canada. Narrative methodology was used to understand the thoughts, feelings, and problems facing ER nurses. The research study includes the stories of three Toronto-based ER nurses who share their experiences of working during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants were interviewed twice, and data was analysed using the three-dimensional narrative inquiry space of time, sociality, and place. Plotlines of 'before they were heroes', 'hero', 'fall from grace', 'villain' and 'to be continued', organized each story. Resounding narrative threads emerged across the three narrative accounts and are presented as understandings. Threads that resonated across the stories include mistrust in leadership, fear and isolation, expectations and duty to care, nursing shortages, personal safety and PPE, workload and stress, moral and psychological distress, and lost voice. The findings of this inquiry offer a new context for understanding the thoughts, feelings, and problems facing ER nurses working in Toronto during the COVID-19 pandemic in a way that preserves, values, and respects the voices and stories of the nurses themselves, thus allowing for emotional healing while offering insight for nursing education, practice, and research.

Introducción: La pandemia COVID-19 ha tenido un gran impacto en todo el mundo y al ser la obesidad es un factor de riesgo importante para la forma grave de la enfermedad por SARS-CoV-2 la cirugía bariátrica tendría gran impacto clínico. La realización de esta cirugía en personas con obesidad, implica una pérdida de peso, la cual tiene múltiples efectos beneficiosos como reducir la respuesta inflamatoria, incrementar la inmunidad y mejorar la función cardiopulmonar y renal. Esta revisión tiene el propósito de proveer información actualizada sobre la cirugía bariátrica en la morbimortalidad de la infección por SARS-CoV-2. Se espera que brinde apoyo al lector a fin de entender los mecanismos fisiopatológicos implicados en el mejor pronóstico y menor probabilidad de hospitalización y mortalidad por COVID-19, en comparación de los pacientes obesos que no han sido sometidos a cirugía bariátrica.

Objetivo: Evaluar la asociación entre la ansiedad generada por la pandemia COVID-19 y las elecciones alimentarias en jóvenes universitarios de 18 a 25 años de Lima Metropolitana - Perú, 2020. Diseño: Estudio cuantitativo, transversal, con análisis de datos primarios, que pretende evaluar la prevalencia de la ansiedad por COVID-19 y su asociación con las elecciones alimentarias en jóvenes universitarios entre las edades de 18 a 25 años de Lima Metropolitana, Perú. Asimismo, al ser un estudio transversal, se realizará en un momento específico de tiempo; en el mes de noviembre de 2020, durante la pandemia por COVID-19.

Jornadas Académicas de Salud 2021. Ponente: Dra. Herrera, Rosemary / Las Jornadas Académicas en Salud 2021 tienen como propósito promover la actualización de los profesionales de la salud de diversas especialidades, enfatizando la atención interprofesional centrada en el paciente.

Jornadas Académicas de Salud 2021. Ponente: Psi. Llerena, Carlos / Las Jornadas Académicas en Salud 2021 tienen como propósito promover la actualización de los profesionales de la salud de diversas especialidades, enfatizando la atención interprofesional centrada en el paciente.

Wastewater surveillance (WWS), included in the field of study of wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE), is the analysis of wastewaters to quantify community disease or use of chemicals by the community, such as pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs. WWS has historically been applied within the context of community public health through monitoring of pathogenic viral outbreaks such as polio and hepatitis A, as well as monitoring of illicit drug consumption. While WWS has been used for several decades, many of its contributions were largely unpopular within the public mainstream prior to the coronavirus disease in 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Since the onset of the pandemic, public health resources around the world were significantly afflicted by COVID-19. This elicited a prompt response by researchers to rapidly develop WWS for the application of severe acute respiratory syndrome-2 virus (SARS-CoV-2) WWS as a complementary epidemiological tool for population-wide monitoring of COVID-19 outbreaks. With the novelty of this technology, there are several challenges and gaps of knowledge that remain to be addressed in order to improve the reliability of WWS for SARS-CoV-2. Particularly, the effects of various constituents, endogenous and added, that commonly occur and are applied to wastewaters may result in the significant variability observed in WWS data sets, which in turn results in the uncertainty of the interpretation of WWS data sets of SARS-CoV-2 by various public health agencies throughout the pandemic. This study is aimed to address the critical issue of data variability by investigating the effect of enhanced primary clarification with ferric-based chemical coagulants on the measurements of SARS-CoV-2 and the pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV) WWS normalizing biomarker. It is believed that the addition of ferric ions via common coagulation treatment of primary sludge would interfere with the quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) amplification of viral RNA and could cause false-negative results. With 18.1% of the total population in Canada receiving wastewater that undergoes primary treatment including chemical precipitation/flocculation, and with proof of enrichment of SARS-CoV-2 and PMMoV RNA in untreated wastewater and settled primary sludge, it is important to elucidate whether ferric sulfate chemical coagulant is a potential source of data variability for population-wide WWS. With ferric sulfate concentrations ranging from 0 - 60 mg/L as Fe³⁺, the PMMoV-normalized SARS-CoV-2 viral signal measurements were significantly reduced as a result of a significant elevation in the PMMoV viral signal measurements. This is possibly due to the partitioning of PMMoV viral particles from the liquid phase to the solids phase of wastewater samples influenced by ferric sulfate at 60 mg/L as Fe³⁺ compared to the samples that were not treated with ferric sulfate. This thesis also examined the evolving relation of WWS measurements to measurements of public health metrics to improve our current interpretation of SARS-CoV-2 WWS. The statistical correlations between wastewater PMMoV-normalized SARS-CoV-2 viral signal and clinical metrics indicative of disease incidence (laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 positive cases), and metrics indicative of disease burden (hospitalization, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, and deaths) are investigated from the onset of the wildtype and the Alpha variant of concern (VOC) during limited vaccination immunization, through the onset of the Omicron BA.2 VOC in two strongly characterized sewersheds (Ottawa and Hamilton). WWS demonstrates to be a strong indicator of both disease incidence and disease burden during the period of limited vaccination immunization, and a moderate indicator of disease incidence, while remains a strong indicator of disease burden during the period of peak vaccination immunization (2-4 weeks after reception of 2 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine). Hospitalization-to-wastewater ratio is further shown to be a good indicator of VOC virulence when widespread clinical testing is limited.