Prevalencia de deficiencias y discapacidades del sistema musculoesquelético en la parroquia Cañaribamba, Cuenca 2003-2004

Abstract

It should be emphasized about causal factors determining impairment and disability risk groups and sample considering its prevalence as age, sex, occupation, education and pathologies related to the emergence and development of the same. In research conducted in the area of ​​study assigned "Parish Cañaribamba" we found that the prevalence of impairments and disabilities are NEUROMUSCULOSKELETAL 0.25 0.16 distributed in functional impairment, disability structural deficiency itself 0.09y 0.15. It is known that the most affected group is the female with a percentage of 60. As for the level of education of the cases found, there is a predominance of incomplete primary education and incomplete secondary. In most cases a certain associated pathology was found. Of the 30 patients with impairments and disabilities only 16 received appropriate professional care of these one 75recibió rehabilitation, they used a public service one 35.7y received a treatment based on physical means one 62.5que accounted for the highest percentage. All these existing concepts must be certified in order to properly group the cases risk groups and to thereby be able to develop strategies and solutions for all the problems in special rehabilitation, monitoring and performance in society. In conducting this research paper we found that several of the respondents who had impairment and disability are completely abandoned both health institutions, society and in some cases their families