Introduction:

disabilities constitute an important health and social problem worldwide.

Objective:

to determine the behavior of disabilities at Hermanos Barcon People’s Council in Pinar del Rio from September to December 2020.

Methods:

an epidemiologic, descriptive and cross-sectional research was conducted. The target group comprised 479 disabled people, including them all in the research. The information was collected through the analysis of the familial and individual health history from the Doctors’ Offices. A univariate analysis of the variables was conducted applying descriptive statistics and estimation of the rate of prevalence for the general disabilities per group of ages, sex and each of the disabilities. The intervals of confidence of 95 % of confidentiality were calculated for the respective rates, as well as the calculation of the absolute frequencies and percentages.

Results:

it was found a rate of global prevalence of disabilities 3,9 per each 100 inhabitants, most frequent in the group of 60 years and older with 8,7 and male sex with 4,2. The rate of intellectual disability was 1,4 and physical-motor 1,1 Postnatal causes reached 67,6 %.

Conclusions:

the global prevalence of disabilities was low, increasing with age, most frequent in male sex. Intellectual and physical-motor disabilities predominated, postnatal causes prevailed.

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