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Maternal feeding and nutritional status of her children: A bibliographic review
No full textPractices are "activities that people do on their own in order to continue living, being healthy, healing their diseases and preserving their welfare", behaviors that are deeply rooted in a belief system and cultural traditions, hardly replaced by new knowledge and also unknown to professionals who provide care. In general terms, they can be considered as the way people address and fulfil some needs. The cultural transmission of feeding methods among humans is mainly "by females". It is the mother who learns about categories and child feeding from her mother (the grandmother of the child), and this is how the mother feeds her child according to this cultural background. The World Health Organization and the International Obesity Task Force have established as a priority, the research on the influence of parental styles in healthy eating behaviors and behaviors shown by boys and girls, as obesity can occur as a sequel of malnutrition at an early age. Objective: bibliographic review of articles on maternal feeding and nutritional status of her children, from different models
Mental Health as an Action Field for Public Health
No full textPopulation mental health is an indicator of success of the policies developed by the governments and the co-responsibility among the members of the society. Mental health services must be based on multidisciplinary teams observing the international and national regulations for the generation of health strategies and policies based on current scientific knowledge that involves all health institutions, non-governmental organizations and civil society in order to dignify and respect the human rights of patients with mental disorders for their human development. This review expects to demonstrate the need of current public health policies on mental health and the necessary improvements by implementing strategies and policies in the primary medical care.
 
Gastric injury induced by Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs and therapeutic strategies for prevention
No full textThe toxicity of gastrointestinal (GI) tract associated with the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) is an important medical and socio-economic problem. The coprescription of traditional gastroprotective drugs such as proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and H2-receptor antagonist, to reduce gastric acid secretion are the common clinical therapeutically approach. However, these strategies are not effectively to reduce gastrointestinal adverse events of NSAIDs and recently have demonstrated their low safety in long-term use. In the search for new therapeutically approach, the use of selective COX-2 inhibitors and the use of prostaglandin analogue in order to maintain the local prostaglandins was considered. Unfortunately, their adverse events in cardiovascular or renal system provoked that their therapeutic use were discarded. Therefore, the search for new therapeutic strategies has been promoted. The current experimental and preclinical approaches includes very promising alternatives such as H2S-NSAIDs, NO-NSAIDs and the possible use of Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an Omega-3 Fatty acid. In this regard, DHA is focused in face the prostaglandin independent mechanism of NSAID-induce gastric injury such as increment of proinflammatory molecules expression and neutrophil–endothelial adherence. However, large studies of these therapeutically approaches are still needed
