Social and economic individual characteristics play an important role in vulnerability to high and low temperatures. It is important that decision-making groups consider identified vulnerable subgroups when redacting and implementing climate change resilience and adaptation plans.

Background: On February 1st 2016 the WHO declared the Zika Virus (ZIKV) infection a worldwide public health emergency because of its rapid expansion and severe complications, such as Guillain-Barré Syndrome or microcephaly in newborn. The huge amount of people traveling to endemic areas and the presence of Aedes albopictus in Barcelona increase the risk of autochtonous transmission. The objective of this study was to describe the first ZIKV cases diagnosed in our city and to analyze the surveillance, prevention, and control measures implemented to avoid autochthonous transmission.Methods: An observational cross-sectional population-based study in Barcelona, Spain was performed.An analysis of the socio-demographic, epidemiological, clinical characteristics, and mosquito control activities of the ZIKV cases detected between January 1st and December 2016 was carried out using a specific ZIKV epidemiological survey of the Barcelona Public Health Agency.Results: A total of 118 notifications of possible ZIKV infections were received, and 44 corresponded to confirmed cases in Barcelona residents.Amongst these, the median age was 35 years and 57% were women. All cases were imported, 48% were Spanish-born and 52% foreign-born. Dominican Republic was the most visited country amongst foreign-born patients and Nicaragua amongst Spanish-born. The most frequent symptoms were exanthema, fever, and arthralgia. Among the 24 diagnosed women, 6 (25%) were pregnant. There was one case of microcephaly outside Barcelona city. Entomological inspections were done at the homes of 19 cases (43.2% of the total) and in 34 (77.3%) public spaces. Vector activity was found in one case of the 44 confirmed cases, and 134 surveillance and vector control were carried out associated to imported ZIKV cases. In all cases prevention measures were recommended to avoid mosquito bites on infected cases.Conclusion: Epidemiological and entomological surveillance are essential for the prevention of autochthonous transmission of arbovirosis that may have a great impact on Public Health.The good coordination between epidemiologists, entomologists, microbiologists, and clinicians is a priority in a touristic city with an intense relationship with endemic countries to minimize the risk of local transmission by competent vectors.

The systematic use of the Balanced Scorecard produced greater cohesion in the management team and the entire organization and brought the strategic objectives closer to daily management operations. The organization is more attentive to its clients, has taken steps to improve its most complex cross-sectional processes, and has developed further actions for the development and growth of its officers and its entire personnel. At the same time, its management team is more in tune with the needs of the agency's administrative bodies that compose its governing board.

We defined a system of indicators for management control, allowing comparisons over time and with other geographical areas, and with activity indicators covering all production areas. Defining indicators reflecting coverage, quality or impact for all services is more difficult. Cost can be estimated by unit of production for some services, but less successfully for others. The yearly cost by population is always a good synthetic indicator of the cost of public health services.

RESUMENFundamentos: La inmigración es un fenómeno bastante reciente en España y aún existen pocas publicaciones científicas sobre tuberculosis (TB) e inmigración. El objetivo de este estudio fue describir las características diferenciales de la tuberculosis en inmigrantes respecto a los sujetos autóctonos.Métodos: Revisión bibliográfica de artículos originales escritos en español o inglés y publicados entre 1998-2012, sobre TB en poblaciones inmigrantes. Se incluyeron las publicaciones con las palabras clave tuberculosis, inmigrante y España. La búsqueda bibliográfica se realizó en las bases de datos Medline y MEDES.Resultados: Se encontró un total de 72.087 artículos publicados sobre TB a escala mundial y en el 6% de éstos se trataba el tema inmigración. En relación a España se encontraron 2.917 artículos, que representaban el 4% de los publicados a escala mundial, y 219 (7,5%) consideraban además la inmigración. De los 219 artículos, el 48% fueron publicados en revistas españolas y el 52% restante en revistas anglosajonas. El 93,5% de las personas inmigrantes con TB tenían menos de 51 años, mientras que en los nativos este porcentaje es del 64,9%. Las resistencias al tratamiento se da en el 7,8% de la población inmigrante frente al 3,8 de la autóctona.Conclusiones: Los inmigrantes con tuberculosis se caracterizan por ser más jóvenes que los autóctonos con tuberculosis, presentan más resistencias farmacológicas y proceden sobretodo de América Latina, Europa del Este, África y Asia. La no disponibilidad de la tarjeta sanitaria puede ser un problema. Background: Immigration is a fairly recent phenomenon in Spain and there are still few scientific publications on tuberculosis (TB) and immigration. Therefore, the aim of this study is to describe the differential characteristics of TB in the immigrant population with respect to natives in Spain.