NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 2022 See complete newsletter Twenty years is nothing, the tango assures, but for the IECS these two decades have implied the accelerated transformation from an organization with dimensions and operating structure similar to those of a family business, to an institution ever more modern, dynamic and professional. And with […]
20 years of IECS, looking to the future See more "
SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2022 See full newsletter Enabling different voices during the production of ETESA reports breaks researcher bias, improves the quality of recommendations and facilitates the decision-making process. The Health Technology Assessment or ETESA is a multidisciplinary process that uses explicit methodologies to determine
The sweet charm of deliberation See more "
JULY – AUGUST 2022 See full newsletter The launch of the Argentine Patient Safety Observatory aims to make visible, address and contribute to the prevention of adverse events related to a care model that tolerates unsafe health care. Patient safety is a public health problem that is not yet sufficiently visible,
Patient safety as a public health problem See more "
MAY – JUNE 2022 See full newsletter Although calcium is known for its effect on bone mineral density, studies that have been accumulating in recent decades show that ensuring adequate intakes of the nutrient have benefits that go beyond bones. For example, it lowers blood pressure, especially in the
Calcium: fortification strategies to make up for its deficiency See more "
MARCH – APRIL 2022 See complete newsletter Children, adolescents and young adults living with cancer experience different symptoms throughout their illness, which requires that all actors involved in their care implement the necessary actions to eliminate or mitigate their suffering. However, in a recent study that
Normalization of symptoms, an “invisible” barrier in advanced pediatric cancer See more "
NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 2021 See full newsletter It has been proven that evidence-based medicine is very valuable, but putting the findings into practice takes between 15 and 17 years. The statistician, mathematician and consultant William Deming (1900-1993), who disseminated methods and principles of quality management that promoted
Implementation science: bridging the gap between what is known and what is applied See more "
SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2021 See complete newsletter Just as the pandemic has represented an enormous challenge from a scientific-epidemiological point of view, from the beginning it was also evident that it implied an enormous challenge in terms of communication. Journalism is usually a territory better prepared to report facts than to accept uncertainty. AND
Health communication and the challenge of qualifying the scope of evidence See more "
JULY – AUGUST 2021 See full newsletter In the late 70s, when I worked at a research institute in Guatemala, I observed that the incidence of preeclampsia (a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy) was very low compared to that of other countries in the region. region. And it occurred to me that it could be attributed to a
Evidence-based practices, an ethical imperative See more "
BULLETIN N° 123 In Argentina, and in other countries in the region, there is ample room to increase taxes on cigarettes, thus discouraging its consumption. This would allow countries to obtain important health and economic benefits, with implications for equity. The so-called “healthy taxes” are defined by the Pan American Health Organization
Healthy taxes as instruments of health policy: the case of tobacco See more "
BULLETIN N° 122 We participated in the development and dissemination of the WHO Guide for care during labor, the tool for intrapartum care designed to replace the traditional partogram, which today is inconsistent with the latest evidence and women-centered care. In it
A guide to help improve the birth experience and clinical outcomes See more "
