Sebastián García-Saisó
Biographic Data
| ID | 6331078 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sebastián García-Saisó |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sebastián |
| FAMILY NAME | García-Saisó |
| SIGNATURE | GARCÍA-SAISÓ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Organización Panamericana de la Salud, Washington D.C., Estados Unidos de América |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
La ética en la vigilancia de la salud pública
La vigilancia de la salud pública es esencial para proteger la salud de la población y abordar las inequidades en salud. Las Pautas de la Organización Mundial de la Salud sobre la ética en la vigilancia de la salud pública son un marco ético internacional comprehensivo que ofrece orientación específica para las tareas de vigilancia y sus desafíos. Este artículo ilustra la vigencia de esta publicación para guiar la vigilancia en cuatro ámbitos pri…
The voice of healthy aging for changing paradigms and changing lives
practice and training in geriatrics and healthy aging across the Americas.As Chief of the Healthy Life Course Unit at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Vega Garca played a central role in shaping discussions and advancing policies on healthy aging and health systems through a life-course approach.His passing leaves a significant absence in the global health community.Yet his groundbreaking work continues to guide reforms in public …
Together towards tomorrow
Towards 2030
Exploración de facilitadores y barreras para implementar los roles ampliados de enfermería en México
Objetivo. Explorar la percepción de los profesionales de enfermería respecto a los facilitadores y las barreras para la implementación de funciones ampliadas de enfermería en una entidad federativa de México. Métodos. Estudio cualitativo de tipo descriptivo con enfoque fenomenológico. Durante el 2022 se realizaron 18 entrevistas semiestructuradas a tres tipos de informantes: a) jefaturas estatales de enfermería, b) jefaturas jurisdiccionales de e…
The Covid-19 Infodemic
On 15 February 2020, during the Munich Security Conference(1), the Director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr.Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stated that the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by a fight against an “infodemic”, leading to a series of initiatives by the WHO and other organizations to face this challenge. This situation is not new: others have occurred during other health emergen-cies, but never one of the cur…
Infodemia en tiempos de Covid-19
[Extracto]. El 15 de febrero de 2020, durante la Conferencia sobre Seguridad en Munich, el director de la Organizacion Mundial de la Salud (OMS), el Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, indico que a la lucha contra la epidemia por la COVID-19 se le sumaba la lucha contra la “infodemia”, dando asi inicio a una serie de acciones desde la OMS y otras organizaciones para enfrentar este desafio. Esta situacion no es nueva, ya que casos similares han sucedi…
Advances and challenges on the path toward the SDGs
BACKGROUND: The sustainable development goals (SDGs) have generated momentum for global health, aligning efforts from governments and international organisations toward a set of goals that are expected to reflect improvements in life conditions across the globe. Mexico has huge social inequalities that can affect access to quality care and health outcomes. The objective of this study is to analyse inequalities among Mexico's 32 states on the heal…
Access to paediatric cancer care treatment in Mexico
In Mexico, paediatric cancer is the leading cause of death for children aged 0–18 years. This study analyses the main challenges for paediatric cancer care from the perspective of three key health systems functions: stewardship, financing and service delivery. The study used a mixed methods approach comprised of: (1) a scoping literature review, (2) an analysis of 2008–18 expenditures on paediatric cancer by the Fund for Protection against Catast…
Mortality due to low-quality health systems in the universal health coverage era
BACKGROUND: Universal health coverage has been proposed as a strategy to improve health in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, this is contingent on the provision of good-quality health care. We estimate the excess mortality for conditions targeted in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that are amenable to health care and the portion of this excess mortality due to poor-quality care in 137 LMICs, in which excess mortalit…
Barriers and opportunities to improve the foundations for high-quality healthcare in the Mexican Health System
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…
Barriers and opportunities to improve the foundations for high-quality healthcare in the Mexican Health System
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…
Mortality due to low-quality health systems in the universal health coverage era
BACKGROUND: Universal health coverage has been proposed as a strategy to improve health in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, this is contingent on the provision of good-quality health care. We estimate the excess mortality for conditions targeted in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that are amenable to health care and the portion of this excess mortality due to poor-quality care in 137 LMICs, in which excess mortalit…
Barriers and opportunities to improve the foundations for high-quality healthcare in the Mexican Health System
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…
Advances and challenges on the path toward the SDGs
BACKGROUND: The sustainable development goals (SDGs) have generated momentum for global health, aligning efforts from governments and international organisations toward a set of goals that are expected to reflect improvements in life conditions across the globe. Mexico has huge social inequalities that can affect access to quality care and health outcomes. The objective of this study is to analyse inequalities among Mexico's 32 states on the heal…
Access to paediatric cancer care treatment in Mexico
In Mexico, paediatric cancer is the leading cause of death for children aged 0–18 years. This study analyses the main challenges for paediatric cancer care from the perspective of three key health systems functions: stewardship, financing and service delivery. The study used a mixed methods approach comprised of: (1) a scoping literature review, (2) an analysis of 2008–18 expenditures on paediatric cancer by the Fund for Protection against Catast…
The Covid-19 Infodemic
On 15 February 2020, during the Munich Security Conference(1), the Director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr.Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stated that the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by a fight against an “infodemic”, leading to a series of initiatives by the WHO and other organizations to face this challenge. This situation is not new: others have occurred during other health emergen-cies, but never one of the cur…
Infodemia en tiempos de Covid-19
[Extracto]. El 15 de febrero de 2020, durante la Conferencia sobre Seguridad en Munich, el director de la Organizacion Mundial de la Salud (OMS), el Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, indico que a la lucha contra la epidemia por la COVID-19 se le sumaba la lucha contra la “infodemia”, dando asi inicio a una serie de acciones desde la OMS y otras organizaciones para enfrentar este desafio. Esta situacion no es nueva, ya que casos similares han sucedi…
Exploración de facilitadores y barreras para implementar los roles ampliados de enfermería en México
Objetivo. Explorar la percepción de los profesionales de enfermería respecto a los facilitadores y las barreras para la implementación de funciones ampliadas de enfermería en una entidad federativa de México. Métodos. Estudio cualitativo de tipo descriptivo con enfoque fenomenológico. Durante el 2022 se realizaron 18 entrevistas semiestructuradas a tres tipos de informantes: a) jefaturas estatales de enfermería, b) jefaturas jurisdiccionales de e…
Together towards tomorrow
Towards 2030
La ética en la vigilancia de la salud pública
La vigilancia de la salud pública es esencial para proteger la salud de la población y abordar las inequidades en salud. Las Pautas de la Organización Mundial de la Salud sobre la ética en la vigilancia de la salud pública son un marco ético internacional comprehensivo que ofrece orientación específica para las tareas de vigilancia y sus desafíos. Este artículo ilustra la vigencia de esta publicación para guiar la vigilancia en cuatro ámbitos pri…
The voice of healthy aging for changing paradigms and changing lives
practice and training in geriatrics and healthy aging across the Americas.As Chief of the Healthy Life Course Unit at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Vega Garca played a central role in shaping discussions and advancing policies on healthy aging and health systems through a life-course approach.His passing leaves a significant absence in the global health community.Yet his groundbreaking work continues to guide reforms in public …
Medicine (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Health care (5 works) · Humanities (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Healthcare Systems and Reforms (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Geography (3 works)