Felicia CaneteUniversidad Nacional de Asunción | UNA · Catedra de Salud Pública y Administracion Hospitalaria. Departamento de Endocrinologia
Felicia Canete
Doctor of Medicine. Master of Education
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May 1994 - November 2021
Ministerio de Salud Publica de Paraguay
Position
- Vigilancia e Investigacion
Description
- 1994-2008 Programa Nacional de Diabetes. 2008-2018 Dirección Vigilancia de Enfermedades No Transmisibles-DVENT. 2018-al presente Vigilancia e Investigación de Enfermedades No Transmisibles-DVENT.
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Publications (50)
Summary
Background Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We
estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from
1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories.
Methods We used data...
Suicide is an important public health problem, fundamentally affecting the younger population and responding to multiple biological, psychological, and social causes. The objective of this study was to characterize changes in suicide mortality, suicide methods, and years of potential life lost from 2005 to 2019 in Paraguay. This observational, desc...
Suicide is an important public health problem, fundamentally affecting the younger population and responding to multiple biological, psychological, and social causes. The objective of this study was to characterize changes suicide mortality, suicide methods and years of potential life lost during 2005 and 2019 in Paraguay. This observational, descr...
Suicide is an important public health problem, fundamentally affecting the younger
population and responding to multiple biological, psychological, and social causes. The objective of this study was to characterize changes suicide mortality, suicide methods and years of potential life lost during 2005 and 2019 in Paraguay. This observational, descr...
Background:
To estimate the prevalence of different physical activity (PA) domains and sitting time (ST), and to analyze the association with sociodemographic indicators.
Methods:
Data from the most recent nationally representative survey from each of the South American countries, comprising 155,790 adults (18-64 y), were used. Data on leisure-t...
Optimal growth and development in childhood and adolescence is crucial for lifelong
health and well-being1–6
. Here we used data from 2,325 population-based studies, with
measurements of height and weight from 71 million participants, to report the height
and body-mass index (BMI) of children and adolescents aged 5–19 years on the basis
of rural an...
Background:
Physical activity (PA) surveillance, policy, and research efforts need to be periodically appraised to gain insight into national and global capacities for PA promotion. The aim of this paper was to assess the status and trends in PA surveillance, policy, and research in 164 countries.
Methods:
We used data from the Global Observator...
Epidemiología de la mortalidad por Cáncer en Paraguay. Ministerio de Salud Pública y Bienestar Social. Dirección General de Vigilancia de la Salud. Dirección de Vigilancia de Enfermedades No Transmisibles. Atlas de Mortalidad por Cáncer en Paraguay – Asunción: MSPyBS, 2022. 88 pág
Introducción:
El estado nutricional resulta del balance entre la ingesta y las necesidades energéticas de nutrientes del organismo.
Objetivos:
Determinar la frecuencia, características y determinantes que influyen en el estado nutricional en los niños menores de cinco años.
Materiales y métodos:
Estudio observacional, transversal, descriptivo con...
Introducción:
Las competencias transversales son aquellas que marcan y modelan el perfil del nuevo tipo de médico que se quiere formar en la malla innovada 2015 de la carrera de Medicina de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de la Universidad Nacional de Asunción, por lo que es fundamental que sean implementadas en los tres primeros años de la carrera...
En América Latina, 13% de todas las muertes y 5,1% de los años de vida ajustados por discapacidad se deben a la hipertensión. El exceso de sodio en la dieta puede incrementar aproximadamente un 30% el riesgo de hipertensión. El objetivo fue determinar la concentración de sodio en orina de 24 de horas para estimar la ingesta de sal en trabajadores d...
Introducción:
La actividad física insuficiente es uno de los principales problemas de salud pública a nivel global. Los patrones de conducta en los adolescentes, y el estilo de vida, podrían afectar su salud física y mental.
Objetivos:
El objetivo de este estudio fue conocer los patrones de actividad física y los comportamientos sedentarios en la...
In 2015, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) published sodium targets for packaged foods, which included two distinct levels: one “regional” and one “lower” target. Changes to the sodium content of the food supply in Latin American Countries (LAC) has not been evaluated. A repeated cross-sectional study used food label data from 2015 (n = 3...
RESUMEN: Introducción: La actividad física insuficiente es uno de los diez principales factores de riesgo de mortalidad a nivel global. En Paraguay las enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles (ECNT) ocupan las primeras 4 causas generales de muertes. La actividad física es considerada un factor de protección importante entre los adolescentes, realiza...
Introducción:
Actualmente el tabaquismo es una de las mayores amenazas para la salud pública a nivel mundial. La muerte atribuida al tabaco en Paraguay representa el 12,2% de todas las muertes y el costo de la enfermedad asociada al consumo de tabaco en el sistema de salud es elevado.
Objetivos:
El objetivo de este estudio es describir las caracte...
From 1985 to 2016, the prevalence of underweight decreased, and that of obesity and severe obesity increased, in most regions, with significant variation in the magnitude of these changes across regions. We investigated how much change in mean body mass index (BMI) explains changes in the prevalence of underweight, obesity, and severe obesity in di...
From 1985 to 2016, the prevalence of underweight decreased, and that of obesity and severe obesity increased, in most regions, with significant variation in the magnitude of these changes across regions. We investigated how much change in mean body mass index (BMI) explains changes in the prevalence of underweight, obesity, and severe obesity in di...
Arterial hypertension is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases in our country,
excessive salt consumption could be a major factor in this situation, knowing what our population thinks about it and the attitude and predisposition to change it, would provide relevant information to develop prevention strategies. Objectives: The objective was to...
Eating healthy can help reduce preventable chronic diseases and improve quality of life in old age. The objective was to describe the eating habits of school adolescents from public, subsidized and private schools nationwide. Materials and Methods: It is a non-probabilistic quantitative cross-sectional descriptive study, the instrument used was the...
Background
Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents.
Methods
For this pooled ana...
Introducción:
La producción de biogás es un proceso natural que ocurre en forma espontánea en un entorno anaerobio, realizado por microorganismos como parte del ciclo biológico de la materia orgánica. Los biodigestores son sistemas diseñados para optimizar la producción de biogás a partir de desechos agrícolas, estiércol o efluentes industriales....
Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in
parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in
cities1,2. This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is
one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity3–6.
Here we use 2,009 population-based studies, with measurements
of height and...
Objectives. To consider the burden of disease associated to tobacco consumption in Paraguay and to evaluate the potential economic and health effect of price increase through taxes. Materials and Methods. A Monte Carlo simulation model was designed incorporating natural history, costs, and quality of life of diseases associated to smoking for 2015....
Objetivos. Estimar la carga de enfermedad asociada al consumo de tabaco en Paraguay y evaluar el potencial efecto económico y sanitario del aumento de precio mediante impuestos. Materiales y métodos. Se diseñó un modelo de microsimulación de Monte Carlo que incorporó la historia natural, costos y calidad de vida de enfermedades asociadas al tabaqui...
Introducción:
Los niveles de actividad física determinan las condiciones de salud y enfermedad de las poblaciones. El estudio pretende determinar la prevalencia de los niveles de actividad física (AF) en la población adulta en el Paraguay e identificar los factores asociados a la inactividad física.
Métodos:
Estudio transversal tipo encuesta pobla...
Violence against women constitutes in “any genderbased act of violence that results in physical, sexual or psychological harm” resulting in the violation of human rights and public health. The objective was to describe the characteristics of cases of violence against women from Asunción and Gran Asunción, registered in the Museum of Justice, from J...
El presente atlas muestra la distribución geográfica de mortalidad debido a los principales cánceres del país, identificando las brechas y las diferencias regionales. El periodo analizado incluye al quinquenio 2010-2014. El propósito fundamental del presente atlas es aportar información relacionada al cáncer en Paraguay y construir una línea basal...
Introducción:
El presente estudio describe los patrones de natriuresis según las características clínicas y sociodemográficas en una población adulta de Asunción.
Métodos:
Estudio transversal tipo encuesta y toma de muestra de orina a personas que acudieron al Mercado de Abasto y al Policlínico Municipal durante los meses de junio-setiembre del 20...
Introduction: Paraguay has not escaped from the global epidemic of obesity. This study described the prevalence and socio-demographic, clinical and behavioral determinants associated to obesity. Methods: Cross-sectional study with a nationally representative survey, included people among 15 and 74 years old. The sampling was probabilistic, three-st...
In the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the UNA we do not have neither a teaching development plan nor a teacher profile to guide the training of doctors in the field of teaching and teacher evaluation. This paper is intended to prepare a document outlining the generic profile of teachers of the FCM-UNA, globally and locally contextualized, as the ba...
Postprandial hyperglycemia is frequent in Diabetes Mellitus sufferers, even when, according to the glycosylated hemoglobin levels, general metabolic control appears adequate. Various studies have shown the correlation between the postprandial glucose values and cardiovascular illness, irrespective of the fasting plasma glucose values. Type 2 Diabet...
Las Enfermedades Crónicas No Transmisibles (ECNT) constituyen la causa principal de enfermedad y muerte prematura evitable a nivel mundial. Está estimado que el ochenta por ciento de las ECNT se podrían evitar mediante la prevención primaria, a través del cambio de comportamientos relacionados al consumo de tabaco, el consumo de grasas, alcohol y s...
Los trastornos mentales constituyen un gran reto y una prioridad para la salud pública moderna, debido a su importante influencia en la producción de discapacidad. No obstante en el Paraguay existe muy poca, si no nula, información al respecto. El objetivo general de este trabajo fue determinar las características epidemiológicas de los diferentes...
Mental disorders are a major challenge and a priority for modern public health, due to its significant influence on the production of disability. In Paraguay there is very few information about mental health in general. The general objective of this research paper was to recognize the prevalence among mental disorders, linked to different variables...
La esquizofrenia es un trastorno mental de muy alto coste social y familiar. Las características de los pacientes esquizofrénicos pueden predisponerlos a desarrollar un trastorno por consumo de sustancias. El objetivo de esta investigación fue el de determinar las características epidemiológicas de los casos en que estos trastornos aparecen simultá...
Skin cancer is the one that affects the skin tissue. There is an abrupt increase of its number; furthermore, its frequency is as much as 5 times higher than breast and prostate cancers. This disease incidence is dramatically increasing as a result of a longer life span and a better life standard, which encourage spare time activities that involve l...
Aims To examine incidence and trends of Type 1 diabetes worldwide for the period 1990–1999.
Methods The incidence of Type 1 diabetes (per 100 000/year) was analysed in children aged ≤ 14 years from 114 populations in 112 centres in 57 countries. Trends in the incidence of Type 1 diabetes were analysed by fitting Poisson regression models to the dat...
Diabetes Voice • Volume 46 • December • Number 4/2001 7 FEATURE L atin America consists of 20 countries with a population of 495 million people, a number that may reach 560 million in the next 10 years. The increase in the prevalence of diabetes, however, is far more than would be expected from this population growth alone. It may be, in part, expl...
A cross-sectional study was conducted on a 20-74-year-old population in an urban white-Hispanic population in Paraguay to determine the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM), impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), and associated cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. In total 1606 subjects completed the study (response rate 80.3%; 1094 women, 512 men...
Diabetes Voice • volumen 46 • diciembre • número 4/2001 7 REPORTAJE L atinoamérica está for mada por veinte países con una población de 495 millones de personas, un número que podría alcanzar los 560 millo-nes en los próximos diez años. El aumento de la prevalencia de diabetes, sin embargo, es muy superior al que se podría esperar del crecimiento d...