Análisis comparativo de las principales causas de morbilidad en el centro de salud n°1 de Riobamba, durante el primer semestre del 2018 al 2020

Abstract

The objective of this research work was to determine the main causes of morbidity through the comparative analysis in the health center N ° 1 of Riobamba, during the first semester of 2018 to 2020. For this, the information of 444 patients was used, they were collected by the RDDCA and PRASS platforms, which stored quantitative and qualitative variables; A comparison was made of the most frequent diseases between the years, using contingency tables, logistic regression and correspondence analysis; obtaining the following results: in 2018 it was the disease urinary tract infection with 5% of the total, in 2019 it was vaginitis, vulvitis and vulvovaginitis with 4%, in 2020 it was acute vaginitis with 25%; For the logistic regression, the most frequently occurring disease (acute vaginitis) was considered as the dependent variable, compared to the covariates that were significant (month of care, nationality and region of residence). According to the correspondence analysis, it was classified in two dimensions, the first profile showed that during 2018 and 2019 both men and women of mestizo, indigenous and Montubia ethnic groups residing in the sierra region with ages between 0 and 14 years were definitively diagnosed as: Insulin dependent, Hyperplasia of the prostate, etc. The second profile showed that, during the year 2020 women of mulatto and black ethnicities, residents in the coast and amazon regions, with ages between 15 - 64 years, were part of priority groups: pregnant women and sex workers were diagnosed with acute vaginitis, sensorineural hearing loss, etc. Concluding that the main causes of morbidity in the three years were: urinary tract infection, vaginitis, vulvitis and acute vaginitis in female patients aged 15 to 64 years. It is recommended to carry out preventive measures against the incidence of these pathologies for the well-being of the population.