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Revista Archivo Médico de Camagüey

On-line version ISSN 1025-0255

Abstract

JADAN-SOLIS, Katty Pilar et al. Characterization of the malaria like endemic illness in Ecuador. AMC [online]. 2019, vol.23, n.4, pp.540-558.  Epub Aug 01, 2019. ISSN 1025-0255.

Background:

the malaria as problem of world public health, affects a high number of persons every year. Coherent with evaluations of the World Health Organization and the Pan-American Health Organization, between 50 and 100 million cases of the illness are presented every year.

Objective:

to characterize the malaria as an endemic illness in Ecuador.

Methods:

a bibliographical review of a whole of 23 articles was carried out in the Scopus, Latindex and SciELO databases, by means of a search engine and Endnote references manager, of them 22 correspond to last four years, 12 correspond to articles in different electronic magazines and web sites specializing in the topic and 11 to reports and documents of world organizations, of which 72 quotations selected for the review were used.

Results:

the different documents related to the statistics, emphasize the increase of the malaria in different areas of the planet, for which actions that contribute to its decrease and even eradication are carried out, nevertheless in Ecuador, in the last two years the results are unfavorable in this sense.

Conclusions:

it is clear that the managers of the public health and community factors of every country affected by malaria, must assume a preventive approach that looks over the problems of health of the communities and favors the environment, they encourage in initiatives that promote major environmental responsibility in favor of eradicating it. In case of Ecuador, there appear unfavorable results that tend to the increase of this illness.

Keywords : MALARIA/prevention & control; MALARIA/epidemiology; ENDEMIC DISEASES/prevention&control; DISEASE ERADICATION/statistics&numerical data; ECUADOR.

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