Revista médica de Chile
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Transgender population is at a higher risk of suffering mental health problems than cisgender population (people whose sex and gender identity are in agreement) and other sexual minorities (gays, lesbians, and bisexuals), partly due to the greater stress that they suffer or for being victims of sexual prejudice. ⋯ Transgender people experience precariousness and vulnerability in their mental health.
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Nonmotor symptoms of Parkinson disease significantly hamper the quality of life of patients and have prognostic significance. ⋯ Nonmotor symptoms must be actively sought and managed in patients with Parkinson disease.
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Revista médica de Chile · Aug 2020
[A revision about health care management in public services and municipalities in Chile].
An appropriate conceptualization process, consisting of an in-depth reflection about the role of organisms responsible for primary health care, which in Chile are the municipalities, should be carried out. Such exercise should enable the development of an analytical method aiming to understand management problems and bottlenecks in a determinate territory or region. Thus, changes to improve resource use effectiveness, with an impact in population health, could be proposed.