Prevalencia de las infecciones respiratorias agudas (IRA) en niños menores de 5 años en el hospital E.S.E norte 3 del municipio de Puerto Tejada – Cauca durante los años 2017 – 2019

Abstract

The Acute Respiratory Infection are the most impactful diseases on the children's population under the age of 5, establishing themselves within the first impacts on the mortality of this population. The IRA are more influential in urban areas because of the influence of industries on environmental pollution. For this reason, research on chronic respiratory diseases guides prevention, control and treatment strategies patients, where social, environmental and physical factors are taken into account people with these breathing problems. This research project aims to determine the prevalence of Acute Respiratory Infections in the municipality Puerto Tejada–Cauca in 2017 - 2019, an observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study will be developed for this purpose. The required information will be extracted from the databases and medical records of a health institution in the period from 2017 to 2019. As a more relevant conclusion it was found that, taking into account the record of cases who entered Hospital Cincuentenario E.S.E Norte 3 during the period 2017 to 2019 568 were estimated to be 15% in the prevalence of IRAs.