Alberto Concha-Eastman
Biographic Data
| ID | 6075921 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alberto Concha-Eastman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alberto |
| FAMILY NAME | Concha-Eastman |
| SIGNATURE | CONCHA-EASTMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Health Organization Regional Office for the Americas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Clinical risk modeling and epidemiological surveillance of Sari in Cali, Colombia
Objectives. To analyze clinical risk models using epidemiological surveillance and hospital data (2022–2024) in Cali, Colombia to identify drivers of respiratory failure in patients hospitalized with severe acute respiratory infection. Methods. A cross-sectional analytical study was conducted using secondary data from notification file 348, which is part of the Colombian National Public Health Surveillance System. A total of 2 354 hospitalized ca…
How has research on the effectiveness and safety of Covid-19 vaccination been evaluated
Introduction: The control of the COVID-19 epidemic has been focused on the development of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2. All developed vaccines have reported safety and efficacy results in preventing infection and its consequences, although the quality of evidence varies depending on the vaccine considered. Different methodological designs have been used for their evaluation, which can influence our understanding of the effects of these interventio…
Covid-19 mortality in two waves of the pandemic in Cali, Colombia, before and during vaccination roll-out
Objective. To describe the variation in COVID-19 mortality among residents of Cali, Colombia, in the second wave of the pandemic, before vaccines, and in the fourth wave, with vaccination roll-out in process, taking into account variables of sex, age group, comorbidities, and interval between onset of symptoms and death, and to estimate the number of deaths averted by vaccination. Methods. A cross-sectional study of second wave and fourth wave de…
Homicide Epidemic in Cali, Colombia
Objectives. To examine homicide rates in Cali, Colombia, during the 1993–2018 period, using information derived from an interagency surveillance system. Methods. We used homicide data from Cali’s Epidemiological Surveillance System to examine homicide trends by victim’s age and sex, time, and type of method used. We estimated trend changes and the annual percentage changes using joinpoint regression analyses. Results. Homicide rates per 100 000 i…
Geographic distribution of risk of death due to homicide in Puerto Rico, 2001-2010
Young adult males with access to firearms are at greatest risk of homicide in Puerto Rico. Also, highly urbanized municipalities are at highest risk; however, certain non-urban municipalities along the coast also have a very high homicide risk. Top priorities should be applying the WHO "ecological model" for violent injury prevention and establishing a surveillance system that will assist in identifying the role that socioeconomics, illegal firea…
Lesiones de causa externa
In recent years, it has become increasingly more common to find that the declarations, resolutions, and documents of various organizations contain an appeal to improve, update, and develop valid, timely, useful, and representative information on external causes of injury (ECI).Almost all of the United Nations' specialized agencies, including its General Assembly, have underscored its importance with the same urgency.One key example is the report …
The establishment of injury surveillance systems in Colombia, El Salvador, and Nicaragua (2000-2006)
La Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud (OPS), en colaboracion con los Centros para el Control y la Prevencion de Enfermedades (CDC) de los Estados Unidos de America, establecio en 2000 sistemas para la vigilancia de lesiones en Colombia, El Salvador y Nicaragua. Estos sistemas, basados en los servicios hospitalarios de emergencia, formaron parte de un proyecto piloto fundamentado en las guias para la vigilancia de lesiones, desarrolladas por la…
Sistema de Información de Lesiones de Causa Externa (Silex)
This article examines the stages in developing an information system for injuries from external causes (Sistema de Información de Lesiones de Causa Externa-SILEX), as well as its limitations and achievements. SILEX is a Web-based application for collection, quality control, presentation, and analysis of data available from the hospital system for surveillance of injuries from external causes created by Ministry of Health of El Salvador with data …
Injury in the Americas
OBJECTIVES: To present evidence to support a higher priority for injury prevention in initiatives, research, and budget allocations. METHODS: Recent data (2000) for deaths from injury, infectious disease, heart disease, and cancer from 11 countries in the Region of the Americas were analyzed. Analyses focused on: first, Potentially Productive Years of Life Lost (PPYLL, discounted) from deaths occurring from 0-64 years of age; second, Years of Pot…
From repression to prevention against violence
This article deals with the proposal of the Pan American Health Organization for the prevention of violence, following the precepts of the "World report on violence and health" of the WHO. In this analysis the authors distinguish the approach of public safety (generally based on repression) from the way public health approaches this issue, based on the traditional concepts that constitute its patrimony: promotion of health, prevention of physical…
Da repressão à prevenção da violência
Este artigo trata da proposta da Organização Pan-Americana de Saúde (Opas) para a prevenção da violência, seguindo as orientações do Informe Mundial sobre Violência e Saúde da Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS). Por meio dessa reflexão, os autores diferenciam a abordagem da segurança pública (geralmente fundamentada na repressão) do foco com que a Saúde Pública trata do tema, com os tradicionais conceitos que constituem seu patrimônio: promoção d…
Informe mundial sobre la salud y la violencia de la OMS
La epidemiología de los homicidios en Cali, 1993-1998
A map shows the homicide distribution by neighborhood, and the benefits of a population-based surveillance model are discussed, particularly their usefulness for identifying risk factors and the measures that can be applied to prevent and control this form of violence
Violence
Violence is both a public health and a social problem. Although there is not only one type of violence nor a unique concept of what it means, the following concept has gained consensus, particularly among those working intersectorally with a public health approach: “Violence is an intentional use of physical force against another person or against oneself, which either result in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury or death”.1 This def…
Vigilancia epidemiológica para la prevención y el control de la violencia en las ciudades
Violence prevention policies should be based on information, follow-up, research, and analysis, all of which increase the chances of success and make it easier to evaluate interventions. This implies, in turn, that there is a need to create surveillance, research, and prevention models for violence within the sphere of public health and epidemiology, a task that constitutes an integral part of the Pan American Health Organization's Regional Plan …
Violence
Violence is both a public health and a social problem. Although there is not only one type of violence nor a unique concept of what it means, the following concept has gained consensus, particularly among those working intersectorally with a public health approach: “Violence is an intentional use of physical force against another person or against oneself, which either result in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury or death”.1 This def…
Vigilancia epidemiológica para la prevención y el control de la violencia en las ciudades
Violence prevention policies should be based on information, follow-up, research, and analysis, all of which increase the chances of success and make it easier to evaluate interventions. This implies, in turn, that there is a need to create surveillance, research, and prevention models for violence within the sphere of public health and epidemiology, a task that constitutes an integral part of the Pan American Health Organization's Regional Plan …
Violence
Violence is both a public health and a social problem. Although there is not only one type of violence nor a unique concept of what it means, the following concept has gained consensus, particularly among those working intersectorally with a public health approach: “Violence is an intentional use of physical force against another person or against oneself, which either result in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury or death”.1 This def…
Informe mundial sobre la salud y la violencia de la OMS
La epidemiología de los homicidios en Cali, 1993-1998
A map shows the homicide distribution by neighborhood, and the benefits of a population-based surveillance model are discussed, particularly their usefulness for identifying risk factors and the measures that can be applied to prevent and control this form of violence
From repression to prevention against violence
This article deals with the proposal of the Pan American Health Organization for the prevention of violence, following the precepts of the "World report on violence and health" of the WHO. In this analysis the authors distinguish the approach of public safety (generally based on repression) from the way public health approaches this issue, based on the traditional concepts that constitute its patrimony: promotion of health, prevention of physical…
Da repressão à prevenção da violência
Este artigo trata da proposta da Organização Pan-Americana de Saúde (Opas) para a prevenção da violência, seguindo as orientações do Informe Mundial sobre Violência e Saúde da Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS). Por meio dessa reflexão, os autores diferenciam a abordagem da segurança pública (geralmente fundamentada na repressão) do foco com que a Saúde Pública trata do tema, com os tradicionais conceitos que constituem seu patrimônio: promoção d…
Injury in the Americas
OBJECTIVES: To present evidence to support a higher priority for injury prevention in initiatives, research, and budget allocations. METHODS: Recent data (2000) for deaths from injury, infectious disease, heart disease, and cancer from 11 countries in the Region of the Americas were analyzed. Analyses focused on: first, Potentially Productive Years of Life Lost (PPYLL, discounted) from deaths occurring from 0-64 years of age; second, Years of Pot…
Lesiones de causa externa
In recent years, it has become increasingly more common to find that the declarations, resolutions, and documents of various organizations contain an appeal to improve, update, and develop valid, timely, useful, and representative information on external causes of injury (ECI).Almost all of the United Nations' specialized agencies, including its General Assembly, have underscored its importance with the same urgency.One key example is the report …
The establishment of injury surveillance systems in Colombia, El Salvador, and Nicaragua (2000-2006)
La Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud (OPS), en colaboracion con los Centros para el Control y la Prevencion de Enfermedades (CDC) de los Estados Unidos de America, establecio en 2000 sistemas para la vigilancia de lesiones en Colombia, El Salvador y Nicaragua. Estos sistemas, basados en los servicios hospitalarios de emergencia, formaron parte de un proyecto piloto fundamentado en las guias para la vigilancia de lesiones, desarrolladas por la…
Sistema de Información de Lesiones de Causa Externa (Silex)
This article examines the stages in developing an information system for injuries from external causes (Sistema de Información de Lesiones de Causa Externa-SILEX), as well as its limitations and achievements. SILEX is a Web-based application for collection, quality control, presentation, and analysis of data available from the hospital system for surveillance of injuries from external causes created by Ministry of Health of El Salvador with data …
Geographic distribution of risk of death due to homicide in Puerto Rico, 2001-2010
Young adult males with access to firearms are at greatest risk of homicide in Puerto Rico. Also, highly urbanized municipalities are at highest risk; however, certain non-urban municipalities along the coast also have a very high homicide risk. Top priorities should be applying the WHO "ecological model" for violent injury prevention and establishing a surveillance system that will assist in identifying the role that socioeconomics, illegal firea…
Homicide Epidemic in Cali, Colombia
Objectives. To examine homicide rates in Cali, Colombia, during the 1993–2018 period, using information derived from an interagency surveillance system. Methods. We used homicide data from Cali’s Epidemiological Surveillance System to examine homicide trends by victim’s age and sex, time, and type of method used. We estimated trend changes and the annual percentage changes using joinpoint regression analyses. Results. Homicide rates per 100 000 i…
Covid-19 mortality in two waves of the pandemic in Cali, Colombia, before and during vaccination roll-out
Objective. To describe the variation in COVID-19 mortality among residents of Cali, Colombia, in the second wave of the pandemic, before vaccines, and in the fourth wave, with vaccination roll-out in process, taking into account variables of sex, age group, comorbidities, and interval between onset of symptoms and death, and to estimate the number of deaths averted by vaccination. Methods. A cross-sectional study of second wave and fourth wave de…
How has research on the effectiveness and safety of Covid-19 vaccination been evaluated
Introduction: The control of the COVID-19 epidemic has been focused on the development of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2. All developed vaccines have reported safety and efficacy results in preventing infection and its consequences, although the quality of evidence varies depending on the vaccine considered. Different methodological designs have been used for their evaluation, which can influence our understanding of the effects of these interventio…
Clinical risk modeling and epidemiological surveillance of Sari in Cali, Colombia
Objectives. To analyze clinical risk models using epidemiological surveillance and hospital data (2022–2024) in Cali, Colombia to identify drivers of respiratory failure in patients hospitalized with severe acute respiratory infection. Methods. A cross-sectional analytical study was conducted using secondary data from notification file 348, which is part of the Colombian National Public Health Surveillance System. A total of 2 354 hospitalized ca…
Medicine (12 works) · Environmental health (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Geography (5 works) · Poison control (5 works) · Gun Ownership and Violence Research (4 works) · Injury prevention (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Public Health Policies and Education (4 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 works)