Resumen de Perfil sociocultural de lactantes bajo control en Consultorio periférico urbano
Julia González Martinic, Jaime Ventura Pinzón, Miguel Villaseca Hernández, Vladimir Yuseff Marchant, Flavio Zambra Zambra, Francisco Zúñiga Reyes
- español
El trabajo describe un conjunto de factores que condicionan la situación de salud del lactante a través del análisis de una muestra de 100 lactan- tes de 0 a 23 meses de edad bajo control en el Consultorio Independencia, perteneciente al Servicio de Salud Metropolitano Norte del S.N.S.S., cuya información se obtuvo mediante una entrevista realizada a las madres o personas a cargo de dichos lactantes.
- English
Factors conditioning health situation of 100 childrens aged 0 to 23 months at a Peripheric Policlinic in Santiago are studied through a survey administered to their mothers or people in charge of them. The characteristics of the family group, mothers’ skills on health, attitudes in front of disease and knowledge sources for medical information are investigated.The conclussions were the following:— Positive factors in favor of health of the children are age and years of schooling of the mothers.— Negative variables would be poor housing, laboral status of the father and low socioeconomics status.Traditional medicine appears as a complement to medical care.
