Equidad de género en la calidad de atención de niños y niñas

En la Argentina existen muchos avances en la incorporación de los aspectos psicológicos y sociales en la atención de la salud en la infancia. Sin embargo, dichos avances aún no han incluido de manera significativa la perspectiva de género en la atención, tal como lo promueven los consensos internacionales. Con el fin de medir el grado en el cual estos avances han sido incorporados en las prácticas, esta investigación intenta identificar el modo en el cual los/as profesionales de la salud que atienden niños/as, han incorporado este bagaje en su práctica cotidiana. Esta incorporación se puede ubicar en los siguientes aspectos: epidemiología diferencial por género en la infancia, incluyendo la mayor prevalencia de un tipo de problemática en alguno de los dos sexos, así como el impacto que están teniendo en la actualidad las expectativas en los cambios ligados a los roles de género, los modos de crianza de las nuevas configuraciones familiares (monoparentales, homoparentales, ensambladas) y los llamados trastornos en la identidad de género (intersexualidad, transexualidad, travestismo) sobre la salud en la infancia

Updated bathymetric chart of the East Aral Sea

The Aral Sea is located in an arid region with much sand and salt deposits in the surrounding barren open land. Hence, significant displacements of sediments into the lakebed by the action of wind, water, gravity, or snow are likely. The bathymetry of the lake was last observed in the 1960s, and within the last half century, the structure of the lakebed has changed. Based on satellite observations of the temporal changes of shoreline (Landsat optical remote sensing) and water level (multi-mission satellite altimetry) over more than one decade an updated bathymetric chart for the East Basin of the Aral Sea has been generated. During this time, the geometry of the shallow East Basin experienced strong fluctuations due to the occurrence of periods of drying and strong inflow. By the year 2014 the East Basin fell dry. The dynamic behavior of the basin allowed for estimating the lake's bathymetry from a series of satellite-based information. The river mouth made its impression in the present East Aral Sea, because its shrinking led to the inflow of much sediment into the lake's interior. In addition, salt deposits along the shorelines increased the corresponding elevation, a phenomenon that is more pronounced in the reduced lakebed because of increased salinity. It must be noted that height estimates from satellite altimetry were only possible down to a minimum elevation of 27 m above sea level due to a lack of reliable altimetry data over the largely reduced water surface. In order to construct a complete bathymetric chart of the lakebed of the East Aral Sea heights below 27 m were obtained solely from Landsat optical images following the SRB (Selected Region Boundary) approach as described by Singh et al. (2015).