Relación entre el nivel de escolaridad alcanzado y el patrón de actividad física en una población de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Introducción. Los hábitos y estilos de vida caracterizan el perfil de riesgo para las enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles. La actividad física regular es un componente importante para configurar una vida saludable pero existen condicionamientos socioculturales para mantener un estilo de vida activo. Objetivo. Conocer los patrones de actividad física de una población e identificar la relación entre el nivel de actividad física y los años de escolaridad alcanzados. Material y método. Población 2177 individuos entre 15 y 64 años de edad de ambos sexos distribuidos en 5 rangos etarios. Se aplicóun cuestionario estructurado autoadministrado, basado en recomendaciones del Countrywide Integrated non comunicable diseases Intervention (CINDI) Programe, de la OMS. Variables analizadas: Nivel educacional, grado de dependencia laboral, actividad física laboral (AFL), actividad física de tiempo libre (AFTL), actividad física de transporte (AFT). Las variables cualitativas fueron probadas por el test de chi cuadrado. Resultados. El nivel de escolaridad alcanzado muestra una relación significativa con el nivel de AFTL. La prevalencia de AFTL baja en varones fue del 65 y en mujeres del 69. Conclusión. La población es mayormente inactiva en su tiempo libre. Los años de escolaridad se relacionan inversamente con el nivel de actividad física laboral y directamente con el nivel de actividad física de tiempo libre

Diversity and television in Argentina: the case of the Audiovisual Technology Hub Programme

This paper describes and analyses the Audiovisual Technology Hub Programme (Programa Polos Audiovisuales Tecnológicos - PPAT), which has been implemented in Argentina between 2010 and 2015 as part of the public policy of former administration of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. The main goal was to promote a television industry that reflects the cultural diversity of Argentina by dividing the national territory in nine into nine audiovisual technology hubs, where national public universities acted as centres that gathered a range of regional stakeholders. Considering the 18 TV seasons that were produced for television between 2013 and 2014, the text analyses the diversity of sources and genres / subgenres and its restricted marketing. The article closes with a brief set of conclusions about this initiative.

Reciprocidades y gubernamentalidad tras la inserción del dispositivo religioso en cárceles de mediana y máxima seguridad de la provincia de Santa Fe (Argentina)

En el presente trabajo indagaremos sobre la reconfiguración de las dinámicas institucionales en dos cárceles de la provincia de Santa Fe, Argentina, tras la inserción del dispositivo religiosoevangélico- pentecostal. Los casos serán las penitenciarías n° 3 —mediana seguridad— y n° 11 — máxima seguridad—, y nos interrogaremos sobre las relaciones de reciprocidad que el dispositivo religioso configura en el encierro, en cómo dichas relaciones definen nuevas estrategias de gobierno por parte del servicio penitenciario y de qué manera se rediseñan las relaciones de poder en el dispositivo carcelario. Abordaje comparativo que responde a la hipótesis de que el dispositivo religioso-evangélicopentecostal construye matrices comunes de ordenamiento social, funcionamiento y reciprocidades en el encierro pero, al mismo tiempo, consolida su funcionamiento a raíz de una identificación precisa de las necesidades y oportunidades de los sujetos según atraviesen situaciones de ingreso o egreso carcelario.

Relación entre el nivel de escolaridad alcanzado y el patrón de actividad física en una población de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Introducción. Los hábitos y estilos de vida caracterizan el perfil de riesgo para las enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles. La actividad física regular es un componente importante para configurar una vida saludable pero existen condicionamientos socioculturales para mantener un estilo de vida activo. Objetivo. Conocer los patrones de actividad física de una población e identificar la relación entre el nivel de actividad física y los años de escolaridad alcanzados. Material y método. Población 2177 individuos entre 15 y 64 años de edad de ambos sexos distribuidos en 5 rangos etarios. Se aplicóun cuestionario estructurado autoadministrado, basado en recomendaciones del Countrywide Integrated non comunicable diseases Intervention (CINDI) Programe, de la OMS. Variables analizadas: Nivel educacional, grado de dependencia laboral, actividad física laboral (AFL), actividad física de tiempo libre (AFTL), actividad física de transporte (AFT). Las variables cualitativas fueron probadas por el test de chi cuadrado. Resultados. El nivel de escolaridad alcanzado muestra una relación significativa con el nivel de AFTL. La prevalencia de AFTL baja en varones fue del 65 y en mujeres del 69. Conclusión. La población es mayormente inactiva en su tiempo libre. Los años de escolaridad se relacionan inversamente con el nivel de actividad física laboral y directamente con el nivel de actividad física de tiempo libre

Symbiotic Cities: Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Mass Culture, 1910-1960

This dissertation examines how Buenos Aires emerged as a creative capital of mass culture and cultural industries in South America during a period when Argentine theater and cinema expanded rapidly, winning over a regional marketplace swelled by transatlantic immigration, urbanization and industrialization. I argue that mass culture across the River Plate developed from a singular dynamic of exchange and competition between Buenos Aires and neighboring Montevideo. The study focuses on the Argentine, Uruguayan, and international performers, playwrights, producers, cultural impresarios, critics, and consumers who collectively built regional cultural industries. The cultural industries in this region blossomed in the interwar period as the advent of new technologies like sound film created profitable opportunities for mass cultural production and new careers for countless theater professionals. Buenos Aires also became a global cultural capital in the wider Hispanic Atlantic world, as its commercial culture served a region composed largely of immigrants and their descendants. From the 1920s through the 1940s, Montevideo maintained a subordinate but symbiotic relationship with Buenos Aires. The two cities shared interlinked cultural marketplaces that attracted performers and directors from the Atlantic world to work in theatre and film productions, especially in times of political upheaval such as the Spanish Civil War and the Perón era in Argentina. As a result of this transnational process, Argentine mass culture became widely consumed throughout South America, competing successfully with Hollywood, European, and other Latin American cinemas and helping transform Buenos Aires into a cosmopolitan metropolis. By examining the relationship between regional and national frames of cultural production, my dissertation contributes to the fields of Latin American studies and urban history while seeking to de-center the United States and Europe from the central framing of transnational history.

Convenio Marco entre la Universidad de Cuenca y la Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina "Santa María de los Buenos Aires"

Dr. Jaime Astudillo & Dr. Victor Manuel Fernández

Spread of Phlebotominae in temperate climates: province of Córdoba, Argentina

We report the presence of the competent vector for Leishmania spp, Migonemyia migonei, and the Evandromyia cortelezzii-sallesi complex south of its known distribution in the central temperate region of Argentina, in the province of Córdoba. The persistence of this phlebotomine in the northern border of the province, its association with a case of cutaneous leishmaniasis, and the new record in the outskirts of the city of Córdoba, the second most populated in the country, strengthens the need for regular vector surveillance and a case detection-sensitive health system in vulnerable regions, even in temperate climates.

Some questions about the Metropolitan Areas in Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo and Santiago regions

Among the numerous problems that are common to the Latin-American metropolises, such as the deep socio-spatial segregation, the impressive territorial fragmentation and the real estate valorisation that overvalues some territories, whilst it depreciates others, we have chosen to focus on the management of the metropolitan regions. That question clearly indicates that due to the great current changes of the economical restructuring - a process that strengthened the capitalist logic of social development - the traditional form of thinking urban planning has found its limits. Consequently, this issue of metropolitan management shows the need to look for new ways of metropolitan administration that can answer to the The main metropolitan regions of South America: Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo and Santiago form our references to characterize the recent changes from a territorial point of view on the one hand; and relative to the new determinations of the metropolis on the other hand. This leads us to discuss the challenges that metropolitan management face in a scenario of governability fragmentation.

The effects of chronic exposure to traffic derived air pollution on the ocular surface

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore the clinical relevance of chronic exposure to ambient levels of traffic derived air pollution on the ocular surface. Methods: A panel study involving 55 volunteers was carried out in Sao Paulo, Brazil. We measured the mean individual levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO(2)) exposure for 7 days. All subjects answered the Ocular Symptom Disease Index (OSDI) and a symptoms inventory. Subsequently, subjects underwent Schirmer I test, biomicroscopy, vital staining and tear breakup time (TOUT) assessment. Subject`s mean daily exposure to NO(2) was categorized in quartiles. Statistical analysis was performed using one-way ANOVA, Tukey HSD and Chi-Square tests. Results: A dose-response pattern was detected between OSDI scores and NO(2) quartiles (p < 0.05). There was a significant association between NO(2) quartiles and reported ocular irritation (X(2) = 9.2, p < 0.05) and a significant negative association between TBUT and NO(2) exposure (p < 0.05, R = -0.316. Spearman`s correlation). There was a significant increase in the frequency of meibomitis in subjects exposed to higher levels of NO(2) (p < 0.05). Conclusions: Subjects exposed to higher levels of traffic derived air pollution reported more ocular discomfort symptoms and presented greater tear film instability, suggesting that the ocular discomfort symptoms and tear breakup time could be used as convenient bioindicators of the adverse health effects of traffic derived air pollution exposure. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.