PROGRAMA DE PROMOCIÓN Y PREVENCIÓN DE LADIABETES MELLITUS EN GRUPOS DE RIESGO DEL SITIO BARRANCO COLORADO, PARROQUIA SUCRE, CANTÓN 24 DE MAYO. JULIO - DICIEMBRE 2007

Abstract

The Mellitus Diabetes is the more important chronic disease and frequents, reason why the World-wide Organization of the Health considers the second epidemic of century XXI. Its importance must to the varied morbidity and to its serious sistémicas repercussions by which it has become a true problem of public health. The Mellitus Diabetes type 2 represents 90 % of the patients, constitutes the greater problem of world-wide health, the same one that associate with one is accelerated atherosclerosis, risk of myocardium infarct and arterial peripheral disease. The importance of detecting this disease is the consequences that can get to be devastating, with important cardiovascular, renales, oftalmológicas, nervous complications that make worse the functional and vital prognosis bringing like consequence elevation of costs in health by the state and relative, labor absenteeism and incapacities by blindness, amputation of inferior members. Its quality of life of the same form can be improved that prepares these complications, valuing and educating of form but it completes to the diabetic patient and surroundings. Reason why one considers the elaboration of a Project of Promotion and Prevention of the Diabetes Mellitus in risk groups taking as group puts the diabetic people, and group from risk important (people with familiar antecedents of this disease, with habits like: elevated carbohydrate sedentarismo, consumption, tabaquismo, alcoholism) of the Community Colorado Precipice pertaining to the Sucre Parish of Corner 24 of May, in which there is a total ignorance on this disease, and being the Mellitus Diabetes a present, increasing and devastating problem has not taken any type from curativa, preventive or as much educative measurement, or at least with the objective to have medical criteria. In addition creating a Committee of Health and a Club of Diabetics, to implement an Educative Program of Char them, to elaborate Programs of Attention of Continuous Health, Protocols and Norms of attention to the diabetic patient and groups of risk, to promote Services of Health, will help in the control and detection of the complications that could at the same time present/display these patients who work like reminder and registry of the real state of such, all this with the purpose of contributing with the diminution of the morbi-mortality of diabetic people in the community, thus obtaining controlled diabetic people in a community organized after improving their health and quality of life.