Abstract

MORALES, Niurka  and  BELDARRAIN CHAPLE, Enrique. Economical and Social Aspects Related to the Behavior of Tuberculosis in Cuba. Decade of 90th. Medisur [online]. 2015, vol.13, n.2, pp.239-247. ISSN 1727-897X.

Tuberculosis is a disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis at present there are different epidemiological patterns of the disease closely related to economic and social factors. Its reemergence has also been associated with situations of social inequality, lack of priority control programs. In Cuba increased incidence and prevalence of the disease in the mid-1990s, coinciding with a period of deep economic crisis was found. The article aims to show the influence of economic and social factors in Cuba in the 1990s and its relationship with increased rates of tuberculosis. This logical historical method supported in the literature review was followed. Tuberculosis in Cuba showed an increase in morbidity and mortality from 1992 morbidity rates increased with age and were higher in men than in women. Result: increased risk of the disease at the expense of the elderly due to biological, nutritional and living conditions that explain this vulnerability factors; difficulties in operating indicators of the program, delays in locating cases favoring transmission in the community. Adverse economic situation that the country faced.

Keywords : tuberculosis; epidemiology; socioeconomics factors.

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