Laura del Pilar Torres-Arreola

Biographic Data

ID5609762
NAMELaura del Pilar Torres-Arreola
GIVEN NAMESLaura del Pilar
FAMILY NAMETorres-Arreola
SIGNATURETORRES-ARREOLA L P
AFFILIATIONSMexican Social Security Institute
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • Avoidable Hospitalization Trends From Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Conditions in the Public Health System in México

    Open AccessOfelia Poblano Verástegui, Laura del Pilar Torres-Arreola et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    OBJECTIVES: To estimate and identify the variations in rates of Avoidable Hospitalization for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (AH-ACSC) in public institutions of the Mexican health system during the period 2010-2017. METHODS: Secondary analysis of the hospital discharge database of the Ministry of Health (MoH) from 2010 to 2017. AH for ACSC was calculated by age group and sex per 100,000. Variations per year between institutions were calcula…

  • Barriers and opportunities to improve the foundations for high-quality healthcare in the Mexican Health System

    Open AccessSVETLANA V DOUBOVA, Sebastián García Saisó et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2018Cited by: 1References: 18

    This study aimed to describe the foundations for quality of care (QoC) in the Mexican public health sector and identify barriers to quality evaluation and improvement from the perspective of the QoC leaders of the main public health sector institutions: Ministry of Health (MoH), the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) and the Institute of Social Security of State Workers (ISSSTE). We administered a semi-structured online questionnaire tha…

  • Necesidades de salud en áreas urbanas marginadas de México

    Open AccessHortensia Reyes-Morales, Héctor Gómez-Dantés et al.ARTICLERevista Panamericana de Salud…2009

    The health needs of people living in Mexico's marginalized urban areas proliferate in the context of a young population with weak ties and little support from family and health services. They face crisis and disease--infant malnutrition, high-risk pregnancy, and addictions--the byproducts of disparities in social progress. The rate of chronic conditions was similar to that of the general population of Mexico

  • Health and working conditions of pregnant women working inside and outside the home in Mexico City

    Open AccessLaura del Pilar Torres-Arreola, Laura del Pilar Torres‐Arreola et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2007

    These findings suggest that the effect of intra-domestic work should not be ignored when considering women's health during pregnancy, and that greater attention should be paid to women's working conditions during intra and extra-domestic work

  • Violencia de pareja en mujeres embarazadas en la Ciudad de México

    Open AccessSVETLANA V DOUBOVA, Verónica Pámanes-González et al.ARTICLERevista de Saúde Pública2007Cited by: 3References: 12

    OBJETIVO: Analisar los factores relacionados a la violencia de pareja en mujeres embarazadas. MÉTODOS: Se recolectó la información de 383 mujeres derechohabientes del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social que acudieron a control prenatal en cinco Unidades de Medicina Familiar en la Ciudad de México entre septiembre del 2003 y agosto del 2004. Ellas respondieran a un cuestionario de violencia elaborado específicamente para el estudio. RESULTADOS: D…