Diagnóstico de salud de la comunidad El Botho, municipio de San Agustín Tlaxiaca, Hidalgo

Abstract

Introduction: The Bachelor of Nursing program, in an answer to international policies and strengthen links with the population. It has in its educational program the subject of Nursing Practice in Community Health, its students and teachers identify health risks in the community, they conducted a diagnosis of health, This is the first step in the process for planning a health intervention. The problems and needs of the population are factors and it has influence positively and / or negatively on the health status of the community.

Methods and Materials: We conducted a field’s investigation, a diagnosis of health in the community of The Botho, in the municipality of San Agustin Tlaxiaca, Hidalgo. We identified risk factors of health.

Results: Botho Township has 352 of population, whom 193 are men and 159 women, representing 1.6% of population of the municipality of San Agustin Tlaxiaca, Hidalgo. The population of this town is rural and it shows an average degree of marginalization. The people have a range between from 20 to 30 years old, indicating that most of the population is economically active. The community has 22 professionals, with 6 people who made technologic career, 40 people have completed their high school, and 158 have elementary school.

The water is carried in tubes to their house, rainwater is available and also through pipes. For human consumption, they use purification water, they always refer to consume treated drinking water. Sanitation in this community is not a common practice, there is a good waste management and also lacks entirely with access to public services for lighting, paving, and drainage and sanitation service system.

 The community has a Medical Home, which is staffed by a community health promoter. This person measure and record the blood pressure, injections. He/she provides of glucose testing and cures. For the supply of drugs, the town has a pharmacy at the suburbs of the community.

The economically active population is 100 persons of both sexes; the minimum wage is 64 pesos per day. The economic activities of the population are: Trade, livestock, mainly agriculture.

96% of population always cleans their teeth and the results are 4% often clean their teeth only 1% said occasionally, so most of them have good oral hygiene habits.

50% of the elderly population has chronic degenerative diseases (diabetes and hypertension). 80% of women of childbearing age have definitive method of family planning. 4% of the population regards drinking alcohol and 2% of the population smoke.

Conclusion and discussion: The recognition, protection and guarantee of human rights, including the right to health to the people, these rights have to go through a critical state and its social and political challenge exclusionary and hegemonic discourse of neoliberal policy of human rights; The same towns and communities as this study, must fight every day to make fundamental rights a reality and not harmed their health.

The state is fundamental to compliance. It must ensure the protection and promotion of the right to health, has agreed to guarantee, however, to skip the gap between that is given in theory and in practice is done, it is necessary to promote and enforce just right health, both among the peoples and communities as civil society. Decision makers, planners and implementers of social policy, we must work for the benefit of the construction of an urgent intersectional in health policy with the participation of all.