Abstract

ESCALONA FERNANDEZ, Luis Alberto et al. Integrating the extension activities from the academic, occupational and research dimensions. ccm [online]. 2017, vol.21, n.4, pp. 1002-1013. ISSN 1560-4381.

Introduction: constantly validating the substantive functions in the universities favors the professional training of students of Medicine. Objective: to show how to integrate from the academic, occupational and research dimensions the description of the evolution and development of the dengue epidemic, from July to September 2015, in the municipality of Holguín. Method: analysis-synthesis, induction-deduction, abstraction-concretion: theoretical methods were used. The method of constructing curves of functions without the use of derivatives, processes understanding, explanation and interpretation. Methods, procedures and mathematical algorithms were applied Results: the curve of the daily percentages of patients with dengue, as well as the curve, rate of change of the percentages of daily patients with respect to the time and speed of spread of the epidemic (by construction). Conclusions: decision making was encouraged regarding the control of the dissipation of the epidemic. Quantitative and qualitative aspects of the evolution and development of the epidemic are assessed, and the effectiveness of the epidemiological measures implemented to reduce the percentage of patients is verified, according to actual data. The certainty of diagnosis, prediction, prevention and promotion in health areas affected by the outbreak of diseases was ensured. The comparative analysis allowed us to interpret the information collected. The application of the methodology of proposal to elaborate professional integrating tasks shows the integration of activities, whose substantive functions in the universities favors the professional formation and implies an unavoidable responsibility of students, professors and institutional managers.

Keywords : health problems; epidemics; evolution; diagnosis; dengue.

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