DatAC: A visual analytics platform to explore climate and air quality indicators associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused an unprecedented global health crisis, with several countries imposing lockdowns to control the coronavirus spread. Important research efforts are focused on evaluating the association of environmental factors with the survival and spread of the virus and different works have been published, with contradictory results in some cases.…

Democratising diagnoses? The role of the depathologisation perspective in constructing corporeal trans citizenship

In the scope of the current revision process of the diagnostic manuals Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Other Health Problems (ICD), an international trans depathologisation movement has emerged that demands, among other claims, the removal of a diagnostic classification of gender transition processes as a…

Demographic, lifestyle, and other factors in relation to antimüllerian hormone levels in mostly late premenopausal women

Objective To identify reproductive, lifestyle, hormonal, and other correlates of circulating antimüllerian hormone (AMH) concentrations in mostly late premenopausal women. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting Not applicable. Patient(s) A total of 671 premenopausal women not known to have cancer. Intervention(s) None. Main Outcome Measure(s) Concentrations of AMH were measured in a single laboratory using the picoAMH…

Depathologising gender diversity in childhood in the process of ICD revision and reform

From 2007 on, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has been revising its diagnostic manual, the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD), with approval of ICD-11 due in 2018. The ICD revision has prompted debates on diagnostic classifications related to gender diversity and gender development processes, and specifically on the ‘Gender incongruence…

Deprivation gap in colorectal cancer survival attributable to stage at diagnosis: A population-based study in Spain

Objective Socioeconomic inequalities in colorectal cancer (CRC) survival are a major concern of the Spanish public health system. If these inequalities were mainly due to differences in stage at diagnosis, population-based screening programs might reduce them substantially. We aimed to determine to what extent adverse stage distribution contributed to survival inequalities in a Spanish region…

Derechos de las personas trans e intersex: revisión del marco legislativo en el contexto español desde una perspectiva de despatologización y derechos humanos

El objetivo de este trabajo es revisar los derechos de las personas trans e intersex en la legislación actualmente vigente en el contexto español, tomando como referencia las recomendaciones establecidas por organismos internacionales y regionales de derechos humanos y las demandas expresadas por el activismo internacional por la despatologización trans y el movimiento intersex internacional.…

Desarrollo de la investigación para la salud en Latinoamérica y el Caribe. Colaboración, publicación y aplicación del conocimiento

Si elimináramos todo lo que hemos aprendido con la investigación para la salud, muy probablemente perderíamos una buena parte de las ganancias en salud que hacen que la esperanza de vida en Latinoamérica y el Caribe se acerque a los 78,5 años, y esta estaría más próxima posiblemente a los 29 años que se tenían…

Desarrollo de un mapa de riesgos para la tomografía por emisión de positrones

La seguridad del paciente es un componente esencial de la calidad asistencial, especialmente cuando la complejidad de la asistencia ha alcanzado niveles extremos. En la actualidad, conseguir esta seguridad se considera una estrategia básica del sistema nacional de salud. Los servicios de Medicina Nuclear muestran unas particularidades que los hacen especiales en materia de seguridad…