Epidemiologic perspective of Health Situation in Gambia 2008- 2013

Authors

  • Luis Enrique Rosabal Ferrer Centro Provincial de Higiene, Epidemiología y Microbiología. Bayamo. Granma.
  • María Elena Maceo Madrigal Centro Provincial de Higiene, Epidemiología y Microbiología. Bayamo. Granma.

Abstract

Introduction: the analysis of the health situation is a usual practice in the Primary Health Care that has like a basic purpose to understand the causes and consequences of the health problem differences in the community.
Objective:
to characterize the health situation of Gambia by means of an epidemiological perspective. 2008 -2013.
Method:
it was performed a descriptive, observational, and transversal type study with the aim to characterize the health situation of Gambia by means of an epidemiologic perspective. 2008 -2013. The population subject of study was constituted by the 36 diseases under surveillance in Gambia, recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). For the sample there were selected only five of them: acute diarrheic disease, intestinal parasitosis, acute respiratory infections, bronchial asthma and malaria. The information was obtained through the statistical registers of the Cuban Medical Mission in Gambia, within the years 2008 until August of the 2013.
Results: the DAD during the first eight months of the year 2013 had a stable behavior, traveling in the zones of Success and Security, the Intestinal Parasitosis were placed at the end of August in the Zone of Alarm, The ARI showed a favorable behavior during the first eight months of the present year, it was placed in the Zone of Success.  The attentions for Bronchial Asthma showed a behavior that placed them in the Success and Security Zones. Malaria behaved very favorable during the eight first months of the 2013, in the Success Zone of the endemic runner.
Conclusions:
the network health services were insufficient to give solution to the health problems that affected the citizens. It was practiced a purely curative medicine and not preventive.  The acute diarrheic diseases constituted the cause of greater amount of medical attentions in the underdeveloped world, mainly because of the sanitary infrastructures.

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Author Biographies

Luis Enrique Rosabal Ferrer, Centro Provincial de Higiene, Epidemiología y Microbiología. Bayamo. Granma.

Especialista de Primer Grado en Medicina General Integral. Especialista de Primer Grado en Higiene y Epidemiología. Master en Enfermedades Infecciosas.

María Elena Maceo Madrigal, Centro Provincial de Higiene, Epidemiología y Microbiología. Bayamo. Granma.

Especialista de Primer Grado en Higiene y Epidemiología.

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Published

2014-10-01

How to Cite

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Rosabal Ferrer LE, Maceo Madrigal ME. Epidemiologic perspective of Health Situation in Gambia 2008- 2013. RM [Internet]. 2014 Oct. 1 [cited 2025 Jun. 7];18(4):92-103. Available from: https://revmultimed.sld.cu/index.php/mtm/article/view/81

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