2015, Number 06
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MediSan 2015; 19 (06)
Prevalent diseases in Guatemalan children under 5 years
Tamayo RCM, Rosell TL, Carrión RY
Language: Spanish
References: 17
Page: 715-721
PDF size: 41.91 Kb.
ABSTRACT
A descriptive and cross-sectional study of 1643 children under 5 years, assisted in the
Pediatrics Department of the National Hospital San Pedro Necta, belonging to the
municipality of San Pedro Necta Huehuetenango Department, Guatemala, was carried
out from June, 2008 to May, 2010, with the aim of characterizing them and to determine
the morbidity due to prevalent diseases in them. The data were obtained from the
department records and from the clinical records; later on they were operacionalized as
clinical and epidemiological variables, and the morbidity rates according to age groups
and prevalent disorders were found. In the series the acute breathing infections, caused
mainly by the common cold, acute diarrheic diseases, preschool patients, male sex, the
environmental pollution agents and mothers with low school level and adolescent ages
prevailed. The rates of gross morbidity caused by acute breathing infections and of
relative specific morbidity from 1 to 4 years were high.
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