Centro de Investigación en Sociedad y Salud (CISS): Recent submissions
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Pubertal development at age 14 is associated with male adolescents' combustible cigarette smoking and dual use, but not with e-cigarette use - Findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study
(ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD, 2023-12-01)Background: Adolescent nicotine exposure via electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) is a global health concern. Pubertal development earlier than peers increases the risk of tobacco smoking compared to peers experiencing ... -
Does substance use disorder treatment completion reduce the risk of treatment readmission in Chile?
(ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD, 2023-07-01)Background: Recovery from substance use disorders (SUD) often entails multiple treatment episodes, which clashes with a context of a treatment system with limited resources and long waiting. Treatment retention and completion ... -
Impacto negativo de la pandemia Covid-19 en las atenciones ambulatorias de salud mental de la Región de Coquimbo, Chile
(UNIV NAC CORDOBA, ESCUELA SALUD PUBLICA, 2023-08-22)Introducción: La pandemia por COVID 19 ha tensionado los sistemas de salud en todo el mundo, al mismo tiempo ha generado un impacto negativo en la salud mental de la población. Los servicios de salud mental tienen el desafío ... -
Socioeconomic position and executive functioning from childhood to young adulthood: Evidence from Santiago, Chile
(ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2023-04)Background: Optimizing cognitive development through early adulthood has implications for population health. This study aims to understand how socioeconomic position (SEP) across development relates to executive functioning. ... -
Validación de la Escala de Liderazgo Destructivo y del Cuestionario de Conductas Negativas-Revisado en Chile
(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2023)La violencia laboral y los liderazgos destructivos acaparan un alto interés en el mundo, sin embargo, en Chile no existen procesos de validación para los instrumentos más utilizados globalmente. La evidencia muestra que ... -
Latin America and the Caribbean Code Against cancer 1st edition: Environment, occupation, and cancer
(ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2023-10)Within the framework of the Latin America and Caribbean region (LAC) Code Against Cancer 1st edition, the current work presents recommendations to reduce exposure to environmental and occupational carcinogenic agents ... -
Field-based learning in global migrant health: An evaluation of student learning outcomes
(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2023-03-04)Increased migration and im/migrant (i.e. migrant and immigrant) inequities, particularly during COVID-19, call for experiential global public health teaching to adequately prepare future leaders. We evaluated student ... -
Culturas organizacionales y factores de riesgo psicosociales en organizaciones chilenas: Un análisis de clases latentes
(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Escuela de Psicología, 2021-03)A pesar de un creciente interés por factores psicosociales en organizaciones chilenas, pocos estudios indagan sus vínculos con la cultura organizacional. En este artículo se explora la relación entre tres dimensiones de ... -
Friends' Influence on Academic Performance Among Early Adolescents: The Role of Social Status
(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2022)Educational research has shown that academic achievement and peer relationships are associated from early school years, where friends play a significant role in influencing students' school adjustment, attitudes, and ... -
Reducing police occupational needle stick injury risk following an interactive training: the SHIELD cohort study in Mexico
(MDPI, 2021-05-14)Objective At a time of unprecedented attention to the public health impact of policing, it is imperative to understand the role of occupational safety in shaping officer behaviours. We assessed the longitudinal impact of ... -
Municipal police support for harm reduction services in officer-led referrals of people who inject drugs in Tijuana, Mexico
(BMC, 2021-08-01)Background Police constitute a structural determinant of health and HIV risk of people who inject drugs (PWID), and negative encounters with law enforcement present significant barriers to PWID access to harm reduction ... -
Coalition incentives and party bias in Chile
(ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2021-08-01)This article revisits the debate over Chile's binomial electoral rules and its consequences and examines how the new electoral system conceived by a democratic congress altered political competition. It utilizes a seat-vote ... -
Suicidal ideation and attempts following nonmedical use of prescription opioids and related disorder
(Chile. Universidad Mayor, 2022-01)Background Since 1999, the rate of fatal prescription opioid overdoses and of suicides has dramatically increased in the USA. These increases, which have occurred among similar demographic groups, have led to the hypothesis ... -
Examining the Psychometric Properties of the Child PTSD Symptom Scale Within a Sample of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in the United States
(Routledge, 2020-07)This study examines: (a) rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a sample of unaccompanied immigrant children in the United States, and (b) psychometric properties of the Child PTSD Symptom Scale. Caseworkers ... -
Communication Strategies To Enhance HIV/STI Prevention, Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Safety Among Migrant Sex Workers at the Mexico-Guatemala Border
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020-05)Communication-based interventions have been linked to improved health and social outcomes among underserved populations. Migrant women in sex work face serious health and social inequities, including risks of HIV and other ... -
The impact of cannabis legalization in Uruguay on adolescent cannabis use
(Elsevier, 2020-06)Background: In 2013, Uruguay became the first country in the world to legalize recreational cannabis, instituting a non-commercial state regulatory model of production and supply. This study provides the first empirical ... -
Affordability, Accessibility, and Awareness in the Adoption of Liquefied Petroleum Gas: A Case-Control Study in Rural India
(MDPI AG, 2020-06)Interventions in the clean cooking sector have focused on improved biomass stoves in a bid to address household air pollution (HAP) in low- and middle-income countries. These initiatives have not delivered adequate health ... -
Addressing Police Occupational Safety During an Opioid Crisis The Syringe Threat and Injury Correlates (STIC) Score
(Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd., 2020-01)Objective: To develop and validate syringe threat and injury correlates (STIC) score to measure police vulnerability to needlestick injury (NSI). Methods: Tijuana police officers (N = 1788) received NSI training (2015 to ... -
Cátedras del Futuro: Desempleo ¿cómo impacta en nuestra salud?
(Chile. Universidad Mayor, 2019-06-29)El miércoles 29 de junio se inaugura una nueva versión del ciclo Cátedras del Futuro, alianza de la Vicerrectoría de Investigación de la U. Mayor con la Comisión Desafíos del Futuro del Senado de la República, en conjunto ... -
Trends in marijuana use in two Latin American countries: an age, period and cohort study
(Chile. Universidad Mayor, 2020)Background and Aims Uruguay and Chile have the highest levels of marijuana use in Latin America, and have experienced consistent increases during the last two decades. We aim to calculate separate age-period-cohort (APC) ...