| [mortality related with alcohol in spain and the different autonomous communities of spain in 2004]. | alcohol consumption is associated with great morbidity-mortality rate. the aim of this study is to analyze the mortality that can be attributed to alcohol consumption in spain and in its different autonomous communities during 2004. | 2008 | 19000474 |
| geographical variations in the benefit of applying a prioritization system for cataract surgery in different regions of spain. | in spain, there are substantial variations in the utilization of health resources among regions. because the need for surgery differs in patients with appropriate surgical indication, introducing a prioritization system might be beneficial. our objective was to assess geographical variations in the impact of applying a prioritization system in patients on the waiting list for cataract surgery in different regions of spain by using a discrete-event simulation model. | 2008 | 18248668 |
| [socioeconomic inequalities and health plans in the autonomous communities of spain]. | to systematically examine sensitivity to socioeconomic (se) inequalities in the policies formulated in the health plans of the autonomous communities of spain. | 2005 | 16050962 |
| [gender sensitivity in the formulation of spanish health plans: what it could have been but wasn't]. | to systematically examine gender sensitivity in the policies formulated in the health plans of the various autonomous communities in spain in which these plans are available. we defined gender sensitivity as the extent to which the health plans took gender into account as a relation category and developed interventions to ameliorate gender-related inequalities. | 2004 | 15171843 |
| [income, percent of women living in rural areas, parity, and breast cancer mortality in spain, 1975-1991]. | the aim of the present study was to analyze breast cancer mortality by provinces in spain during the period 1975-91, and to assess the relationship with the geographical distribution of income level, percent of women living in rural areas and average parity of women in each province. | 1997 | 9064415 |
| geographical variations in the prevalence of hiv infection among drug users receiving ambulatory treatment in spain. | to identify the factors responsible for the regional differences in hiv-positive serostatus among drug users in spain receiving outpatient treatment, the 17 autonomous regions into which spain is divided were classified as high (mean 52%) or low prevalence groups (mean 34%) depending on the prevalence of seropositivity. in regions where the prevalence of positive serostatus was high, unemployment was more markedly associated with hiv infection than in low prevalence regions, while other potentia ... | 1993 | 8505189 |
| cystic fibrosis in spain: high frequency of mutation g542x in the mediterranean coastal area. | we have determined the frequency of deletion delta f508 and mutation g542x, a nonsense mutation in exon 11 of the cystic fibrosis (cf) gene, in a sample of 400 spanish cf families. mutation g542x represents 8% of the total number of cf mutations in spain, making it the second most common mutation after the delta f508 deletion, which accounts for 48% of cf chromosomes. g542x has a higher frequency in the mediterranean coastal area (14%) and in the canary islands (25%). about 70% of g542x chromoso ... | 1993 | 8454290 |
| vitamins in spanish food patterns: the eve study. | to describe vitamin intakes in spanish food patterns, identify groups at risk for inadequacy and determine conditioning factors that may influence this situation. | 2001 | 11918471 |
| [prevalence of obesity in spain: results of the seedo 2000 study]. | obesity is a major public health problem in developed countries. it is of key importance to ascertain its magnitude and to identify main groups at risk. in this paper the prevalence of obesity in spanish adult population aged 25-60 is estimated, based on measured height and weight. | 2003 | 12732125 |
| characteristics and trends of newly diagnosed hiv-infections, 2000-2004. | to describe the characteristics and trends of newly diagnosed hiv-infections. | 2006 | 17198621 |