Aplicación de la interculturalidad, en el cuidado de la salud de niños con infecciones respiratorias y enfermedades diarreicas agudas IRA y EDA que acuden al Centro de Salud de Chiquintad, Cuenca- Ecuador 2016

Abstract

Intercultural health addresses major challenges to improve the quality of health services through the implementation of the Comprehensive Family, Community and Intercultural Health Care Model aimed at increasing care coverage and strengthening the first level of care, incorporating the strategy Of Renewed Primary Health Care, understanding, respecting and incorporating the knowledge and ancestral health practices of traditional and alternative medicine, in addition to the reconstruction of "Buen Vivir" Objective.- To identify the application of interculturality in the health care of children with Acute Respiratory Infections and Acute Diarrheal Diseases who attend the Chiquintad 2016 Parish Health Center. Methodology.- The research is quantitative, collecting numerical information of a determined sector of the city of Cuenca; The type of study was descriptive, since the universe was made up of 901 children who go to the Chiquintad Health Center, we chose a sample, statistically calculated, corresponding to 207 children who came to the health center. The research techniques used were: the interview, the documentary review of the clinical history and a clinical history review guide. The information processing was done in the programs Word, Excel and SPSS Statistics, applying descriptive statistics with frequencies and percentages. Results.- The ages most frequently of the children interviewed are in the ranges of 1-4 and 5-12, with percentages of 50.7% and 40.6%, respectively; Of them, 94.6% come from the rural area. 93.2% believe that drug use is good for children. It was determined that 95.7% had used ancestral medicine for the treatment of IRA, EDA being the most used medicinal plants with 88.7% having 70 varieties of these and finding efficiency in its use of 90.8% of the use of Ancestral medicine. Conclusions.- With the development of the research topic, we obtained demographic information from the children and determined the application of interculturality applied in the treatment of EDA, IRA