Prevalence of Common Diseases in Indigenous People in Colombia
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Ethical Approval
2.2. Study Design
2.2.1. Collected Study Data (ST)
2.2.2. Data from the Dusakawi Health Points (HP) and the Dusakawi Health Brigades (B)
2.3. Data Management and Statistical Analyses
3. Results
3.1. Demographic Data
3.2. Diseases Diagnosed
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Ranking. | ICD Chapter | Total | Age in Years No. of Diagnoses (%) * | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
<1 | 1–4 | 5–14 | 15–44 | 45–59 | ≥60 | |||
1 | X Diseases of the respiratory system | 252 (44.3) | 8 (53.3) | 49 (49.5) | 94 (54.7) | 76 (35.8) | 16 (36.4) | 9 (33.3) |
2 | I Certain infectious and parasitic diseases | 119 (20.9) | 3 (0.2) | 32 (32.3) | 43 (25.0) | 32 (15.1) | 6 (13.6) | 3 (11.1) |
3 | XI Diseases of the digestive system | 37 (6.5) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (1.0) | 2 (1.2) | 30 (14.2) | 2 (4.5) | 2 (7.4) |
4 | XIV Diseases of the genitourinary system | 33 (5.8) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (2.0) | 2 (1.2) | 22 (10.4) | 6 (13.6) | 1 (3.7) |
5 | XII Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue | 30 (5.3) | 1 (0.7) | 7 (7.1) | 8 (4.7) | 12 (5.7) | 1 (2.3) | 1 (3.7) |
6 | VIII Diseases of the ear and mastoid process | 24 (4.2) | 1 (0.7) | 4 (4.0) | 11 (6.4) | 4 (1.9) | 2 (4.5) | 2 (7.4) |
7 | XIII Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue | 22 (3.9) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 14 (6.7) | 7 (15.9) | 1 (3.7) |
8 | VII Diseases of the eye and adnexa | 17 (2.9) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (1.0) | 3 (1.7) | 8 (3.8) | 1 (2.3) | 4 (14.8) |
9 | XVIII Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified | 15 (2.6) | 1 (0.7) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.6) | 9 (4.2) | 1 (2.3) | 3 (11.1) |
10 | XIX Injury, poisonings and certain other consequences of external causes | 11 (1.9) | 1 (0.7) | 1 (1.0) | 5 (2.9) | 3 (1.4) | 1 (2.3) | 0 (0.0) |
11 | VI Diseases of the nervous system | 5 (0.9) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (1.7) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (2.3) | 1 (3.7) |
12 | IV Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases | 3 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (2.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
13 | XV Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium | 1 (0.2) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
total | 569 | 15 | 99 | 172 | 212 | 44 | 27 |
ST | HP | B | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ICD-10 Chapter * | Ranking | No. of Diagnoses (%) | Ranking | No. of Diagnoses (%) | Ranking | No. of Diagnoses (%) |
X | 1 | 252 (44.3) | 3 | 18,104 (11.7) | 1 | 633 (35.0) |
I | 2 | 119 (20.9) | 5 | 11,254 (7.3) | 3 | 254 (14.0) |
XI | 3 | 37 (6.5) | 1 | 36,381 (23.6) | 2 | 324 (17.9) |
XIV | 4 | 33 (5.8) | 4 | 14,123 (9.2) | 8 | 50 (2.8) |
XII | 5 | 30 (5.3) | 9 | 6042 (3.9) | 6 | 83 (4.6) |
VIII | 6 | 24 (4.2) | 14 | 2144 (1.4) | 12 | 23 (1.3) |
XIII | 7 | 22 (3.9) | 6 | 9845 (6.4) | 5 | 111 (6.1) |
VII | 8 | 17 (3.0) | 10 | 3462 (2.2) | 7 | 59 (3.3) |
XVIII | 9 | 15 (2.6) | 2 | 24,387 (15.8) | 4 | 154 (8.5) |
XIX | 10 | 11 (1.9) | 11 | 3239 (2.1) | 10 | 25 (1.4) |
VI | 11 | 5 (0.9) | 12 | 2567 (1.7) | 11 | 24 (1.3) |
IV | 12 | 3 (0.5) | 8 | 6815 (4.4) | 13 | 16 (0.9) |
XV | 13 | 1 (0.2) | 16 | 736 (0.5) | 16 | 3 (0.2) |
IX | 0 (0.0) | 7 | 9329 (6.0) | 9 | 37 (2.0) | |
III | 0 (0.0) | 15 | 1906 (1.2) | 14 | 6 (0.3) | |
XX | 0 (0.0) | 19 | 184 (0.1) | 15 | 4 (0.2) | |
V | 0 (0.0) | 13 | 2385 (1.5) | 16 | 3 (0.2) | |
II | 0 (0.0) | 17 | 702 (0.5) | 18 | 1 (0.1) | |
XVI | 0 (0.0) | 20 | 161 (0.1) | - | 0 (0.0) | |
XVII | 0 (0.0) | 18 | 658 (0.4) | - | 0 (0.0) | |
Total | 569 | 154,415 | 1810 |
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Bauer, H.; Concha Mendoza, G.A.; Kreienbrock, L.; Hartmann, M.; Frickmann, H.; Kann, S. Prevalence of Common Diseases in Indigenous People in Colombia. Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2022, 7, 109. https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed7060109
Bauer H, Concha Mendoza GA, Kreienbrock L, Hartmann M, Frickmann H, Kann S. Prevalence of Common Diseases in Indigenous People in Colombia. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease. 2022; 7(6):109. https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed7060109
Chicago/Turabian StyleBauer, Hannah, Gustavo Andrés Concha Mendoza, Lothar Kreienbrock, Maria Hartmann, Hagen Frickmann, and Simone Kann. 2022. "Prevalence of Common Diseases in Indigenous People in Colombia" Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease 7, no. 6: 109. https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed7060109