Abstract

AGUILAR VALDES, Juan et al. Risk factors of communicable diseases in students of one primary school of the La Habana province (2004). Rev Cubana Hig Epidemiol [online]. 2011, vol.49, n.1, pp. 47-53. ISSN 1561-3003.

In the environment of educational institutions frequently there are risk factors for health of students and professors, favoring the appearance of communicable diseases. Some- times these risk factors are mainly related with the failure to fulfil of the established procedures precisely for its prevention. The aim of present paper is to identify the risk factors of communicable diseases in a primary school of «Ciudad Libertad» school complex in the Marianao municipality and to direct the pertinent measures for its elimination in the implementation of a surveillance system. As a fundamental part of the methodology of this system is the training of health staff in the hygienic and epidemiologic features related to the communicable diseases and its environmental and personal risk factors. Also, as regards the design authors propose to apply the risk analysis system and the critical control points used in the foods hygiene. Among the major results there were multiple risk factors for the communicable diseases by different routes in the environment of study educational institution and students habits and behaviors, as well as its causes. We conclude that identification of risk factors of communicable diseases in educational institutions is feasible and may to be prevented or eliminated using simple and applicable measures in the same school center.

Keywords : Risk factors; communicable diseases; risk analysis; critical control point; surveillance system.

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