Comprehensive health care for workers of the Ambato land terminal, and transfer areas in the Americas and Cashapamba.
Keywords:
Primary Heath Care, Adult, Chronic diseaseAbstract
Introduction: The main aspects of the first point of the Alma-Ata Declaration were the definition of health and
considering health as a Fundamental Human Right. Primary Care goes a step further and is able to provide comprehensive and ongoing care, focusing on prevention, health promotion, and the needs of individuals,
families, and communities throughout their lives.
Objective: Detect the most common health problems in the clinical, and social fields in the people of service
the terrestrial terminal and in the different transfer areas.
Material and methods: Observational explanatory study, of prospective cohort, the population was made up of
the universe of terrestrial drivers during the period September 2019 – January 2020, the sample represented
by 51 workers who agreed to be included in the Research.
Result: It was shown that there is a high rate of workers with a predisposition to different chronic diseases,
and with inadequate nutritional statuses which may constitute risk factors for their quality of life.
Conclusions: Diabetes diseases, high blood pressure, hypercholesterolemia predominated, as predisposent to
disease health balance disturbances, and the index of inadequate nutritional factors was evident in the study.
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