Factores de Riesgo en Niños en Observación del Hospital Central de San Cristóbal y Medicina Familiar

Abstract

A prospective study of 200 pediatric patients is presented. The children age rank was 1 to 12 years. One hundred patients (Group 1) were children under pediatric observation in the Central Hospital of San Cristobal, Tachira, Venezuela, and the other 100 were children attending the Family Medicine unit II consult, divided in 37 (Group 2) attending curative consult and63 (Control Group) attending control consult. The study took three months. The results showed that more than half of the consults were due to preventable and median preventable diseases. The malnutrition index was low in Groups 1 and 2, and in risk of suffering malnutrition in both groups. The immunizations scheme in both groups was satisfactory. In both groups (1 and 2) a high proportion of the children belong to homes with in satisfied basic needs and high index of overcrowding in both groups (1 and 2) there were critical situations in tile family, with low alarm level in Group 1. In incidence of preventable diseases