Prevalencia de enfermedades diarreicas en niños menores de 5 años atendidos en el Centro de Salud # 14 de la ciudad de Guayaquil 2017.

Abstract

Diarrheal diseases continue to hinder health in public entities, especially in children from zero to five years of age; the mortality rate in Ecuador is 25%, being dehydration caused by chronic diarrhea, one of the main causes of death. The problem identified is that the Health Center is very often attended by children with acute and chronic dehydration, which led to the present study to know the prevalence. The main objective is to determine the prevalence of diarrheal diseases in children under five years of age who attend the Health Center # 14 in the city of Guayaquil. As a methodological design, the Descriptive and Prospective type method is proposed because it proceeds to delimit a group that is exposed to a risk, and transversal because it is used to determine the prevalence of diarrheal diseases in children under 5 years of age; for which a field study was carried out, for the collection of information and bibliography for the review of the themes that underlie the theoretical frame of reference; the study population is made up of children who attend the health center and the sample is 96; data was collected with an observation matrix, for the tabulation a software was used for the spreadsheet followed by the analysis of the results, the main results being that 47% of the children who were attended by a disease diarrhea are between 1-2 years of age, followed by an important group of 0 months to a year with 26%; the total number of children who attended the Health Center (100%) presented diarrhea of infectious origin.