León CP, Fariñas RAT, Galindo RK, Prior GA, Dihigo FT, Núñez VL

Language: Spanish
References: 11
Page:
PDF size: 139.41 Kb.

ABSTRACT

The emergent and re-emergent diseases are a health problem worrying governments and public health authorities because of the economic and social effects they can produce. We carried out a descriptive observational study in the population of the province of Matanzas, geographically distributed in their health area, with the purpose of stratifying the risk for the emergent and re-emergent diseases, in the period 2002-2006. A group of experts selected the diseases to study and the indicators, being defined this way: for the tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, the prevalence rate and the lethality; for dengue and malaria, the imported cases and the infestation index; for the avian flu and the West Nile fever, the migratory birds settlement and the traveler arrival from the endemic areas, and for the last one also the infestation rate. The data were collected from the cards of Obligatory Declaration Diseases and the decease certifications, from the Provincial Direction of Health, the Provincial Center of Hygiene and Epidemiology, the vectorial surveillance system of the Provincial Unit of Vectors, the Provincial Center of Veterinary Medicine, and the Ministry of Sciences, Technology and Environment. As a result we obtained that Playa, Varadero, Agramonte and Jagüey Grande were the health areas at higher risk. This is of great importance for the executives at the different levels of the system, making possible the reorientation of the surveillance, the organization of the health services and te opportune intervention on a scientific basis.

REFERENCES

1. Valdés García L. Enfermedades Emergentes y Reemergentes. La Habana: Ministerio de Salud Pública; 1998. p. 15-16.

2. Valdés García L. Enfermedades Emergentes y Reemergentes. La Habana: Ministerio de Salud Pública; 1998. p. 13-14.

3. Suárez Larreinaga CL, Berdasquera Corcho D. Enfermedades emergentes y reemergentes: factores causales y vigilancia. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [Internet]. 2000 [citado 12 Sep 2011]; 16(6):593-7. Disponible en: http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0864-21252000000

4. Proyecciones de la Salud Pública de Cuba para el 2015 [Internet]. La Habana: Infomed, c. 2000-2011 [citado 12 Sep 2011]. Enfermedades transmisibles, emergentes y reemergentes. Disponible en: http://salud2015.sld.cu/factores-relacionados-con-el-ambiente/plonearticlemultipage.2006-04-14.1282654607/its-vih-sida

5. León Cabrera P, Benítez Fuente B, Dihigo Faz T. Epidemia de VIH/SIDA y su repercusión en el desarrollo económico y social en la población matancera. Rev Méd Electrón [Internet] 2006 [citado 12 Sep 2011];28(5). Disponible en: http://www.cpimtz.sld.cu/revista médica/año2006/tema17.htm

6. Organización Panamericana de la Salud. Avances en el control de la tuberculosis en la región de las Américas. 1995-2003. Tuberculosis. 2004;7(1):1-3.

7. Proyecciones de la Salud Pública de Cuba para el 2015 [Internet]. La Habana: Infomed, c. 2000-2011 [citado 12 Sep 2011]. Enfermedades eliminadas, emergentes y reemergentes. Disponible en: http://salud2015.sld.cu/factores-relacionados-con-el-ambiente/plonearticlemultipage.2006-04-14.1282654607/enfermedades-eliminadas-emergentes-y-reemergentes

8. Roses Periago M, Guzmán MG. Dengue y dengue hemorrágico en las Américas. Rev Panam Salud Pública [Internet]; 2007 [citado 12 Sep 2011];21(4). Disponible en: http://revista.paho.org/uploads/1182780109.pdf

9. Organización Panamericana de la Salud [Internet]. Wahington: Organización Panamericana de la Salud [actualizado 2011; citado 12 Sep 2011]. Disponible en: http://www.paho.org/Spanish/AD/DPC/CD/mal-world-rpt-2005.htm

10. Alfonso Berrio L, Fernández A, Ramos C. Vigilancia de paludismo importado: 1996-2000. Boletín Epidemiológico Semanal del IPK. 2001;11(13).

11. Cruz Pineda CA, Cabrera Carmenate MV. Caracterización entomológica-ecológica de casos y sospechosos del virus del Nilo Occidental en la provincia Sancti Spíritus. Rev Cubana Med Trop [Internet]. 2006 [citado 12 Sep 2011];58(3). Disponible en: http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?pid=S0375-07602006000300010&script=sci