Cubides MÁ, Daza AJ, García PM, Zapata OH, Arenas QB, Palacio S

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Tuberculosis (TB) is a highly transmissible, chronic infectious disease that is a public health problem and a challenge for its TB Control Program. This Program has set as goals the following: effective treatment of the disease and early uptake through the search for symptomatic respiratory defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as any person with cough and expectoration for more than 15 days. Given that this is a fundamental indicator to evaluate the program and that there is little information regarding the behaviour of this event in the population area, it is pertinent to carry out a comprehensive review that allows to record the performance of this indicator at the community level, as a tool that allows strengthen the operational and management actions of the TB control program. The literature search was carried out using the descriptors “Tuberculosis”, “symptomatic respiratory”, “prevalence” and “risk factors”, through various databases such as Pubmed, ScienceDirect, EBSCO, and Proquest. It was identified that the prevalence in countries with conditions similar to those in Colombia ranges among 2 and 10 %. However, the frequency reported in most articles cannot be inferred in population terms as the designs do not allow it; additionally, those are not performed in general population terms, but in populations in vulnerable conditions with differential risk of suffering TB.