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Revista Cubana de Medicina General Integral
versión impresa ISSN 0864-2125
Resumen
HIDALGO PRIETO, Abel; SEGREDO PEREZ, Alina María; BORROTO CRUZ, Eugenio Radamés y MARTIN LINARES, Xiomara. Characteristics and health conditions of collaborators of the Cuban Medical Mission in Venezuela aged 60 years and older. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2013, vol.29, n.2, pp. 132-140. ISSN 0864-2125.
Background: aging is a universal and personal experience. 60 years or older men and women are the fastest growing population in the world. Objective: to describe the characteristics and health conditions of older than 60 years collaborators of the Cuban Medical Mission in Venezuela during the 2003-2011 period. Methods: a descriptive research was made to the 544 cooperatives that composed the universe of the study. The main source of information was the database of the Central Unit of Medical Cooperation. Variables such as age, sex, profession, work performance, personal pathological antecedents, and need of medical assistance were studied. Results: the 56,3 % were female, the predominant age group was the 60-64 (76,1 %), the 57,5 % were in the professional occupational category and within it, the Nursing professionals with a 32,7 %. The 69,7 % of collaborators reported personal pathological antecedents, where hypertension was the most frequent chronic disease. The 58, 3 % of collaborators needed medical assistance during the mission. Conclusions: the female sex, the age group 60-64 and the professional occupational category, mainly related to the health care activity, predominated in older adults who accomplished mission in The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Most of the collaborators suffered from any chronic disease, being hypertension the most frequent one and more than a half needed medical assistance during the mission.
Palabras clave : older adults; medical collaboration; collaborators.