Abstract

SANCHEZ VALDES, Lizet; MESA TOLEDO, Edilia; GONZALEZ GRILLO, Francisco  and  GONZALEZ OCHOA, Edilberto. Una alternativa para la formulación de un programa de vigilancia de la tuberculosis en el Municipio Playa. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 1997, vol.13, n.2, pp.170-180. ISSN 0864-2125.

Tuberculosis is a disease whose incidence has increased in the world since the 1980s, and in Cuba from 1992 on. Therefore, it is important to promote the elaboration of surveillance and control programs at the local level, adjusting them to the conditions required at this level. With this paper we offer an alternative to prepare the surveillance program that should be associated with the tuberculosis control program so that it serves as a guide for the debates on the evaluation of the epidemiological situation of the disease.

Keywords : TUBERCULOSIS [prevención y control]; VIGILANCIA EPIDEMIOLOGICA; ATENCION PRIMARIA DE SALUD; CUBA; PROGRAMAS NACIONALES DE SALUD MEDICOS DE FAMILIA; TUBERCULOSIS [prevention and control]; EPIDEMIOLOGIC SURVEILLANCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; CUBA; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY.