Prevalence of common diseases in Indigenous people in Colombia
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- The Indigenous tribe called the Wiwa lives retracted in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. Little is known about their health status and whether the health care system in place covers their needs. In 2017 and 2018, a permanent physician was in charge for the Wiwa. Diseases and complaints were registered, ranked, and classified with the ICD-10 coding. Datasets from the Indigenous health care provider Dusakawi, collected from local health points and health brigades travelling sporadically into the fields for short visits, were compared.The Indigenous tribe called the Wiwa lives retracted in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. Little is known about their health status and whether the health care system in place covers their needs. In 2017 and 2018, a permanent physician was in charge for the Wiwa. Diseases and complaints were registered, ranked, and classified with the ICD-10 coding. Datasets from the Indigenous health care provider Dusakawi, collected from local health points and health brigades travelling sporadically into the fields for short visits, were compared. Furthermore, a list of provided medication was evaluated regarding the recorded needs. The most common complaints found were respiratory, infectious and parasitic, and digestive diseases. The top ten diagnoses collected in the health points and in the health brigade datasets were similar, although with a different ranking. The available medication showed a basic coverage only, with a critical lack of treatment for many severe, chronic, and life-threatening diseases. Most of the detected diseases in the Indigenous population are avoidable by an improvement in health care access, an expansion of the provided medication, and an increase in knowledge, hygiene, and life standards.…
Autor(en): | Hannah Bauer, Gustavo Andrés Concha Mendoza, Lothar Kreienbrock, Maria Hartmann, Hagen Frickmann, Simone Kann |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-278953 |
Dokumentart: | Artikel / Aufsatz in einer Zeitschrift |
Institute der Universität: | Medizinische Fakultät / Institut für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie |
Sprache der Veröffentlichung: | Englisch |
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes / der Zeitschrift (Englisch): | Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease |
ISSN: | 2414-6366 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
Band / Jahrgang: | 7 |
Heft / Ausgabe: | 6 |
Aufsatznummer: | 109 |
Originalveröffentlichung / Quelle: | Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease (2022) 7:6, 109. https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed7060109 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed7060109 |
Allgemeine fachliche Zuordnung (DDC-Klassifikation): | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
Freie Schlagwort(e): | Chagas disease; Colombia; Sierra Nevada; indigenous; neglected groups; public health |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 30.05.2023 |
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 18.06.2022 |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International |