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Gaceta Médica Boliviana
Print version ISSN 1012-2966On-line version ISSN 2227-3662
Abstract
VILLCA VILLEGAS, Jose Luis; CONDORI SALLUCO, Nelson Franco and ALARCON ARTEAGA, Andrea. Ecological Study of Bolivian Households and their Relationship with COVID-19, Management 2020. Gac Med Bol [online]. 2022, vol.45, n.1, pp.17-22. ISSN 1012-2966. https://doi.org/10.47993/gmb.v45i1.360.
Objectives:
To analyze the symptoms and the social and educational characteristics of health services related to Covid-19 during the pandemic in the Bolivian population in the 2020 management.
Methods:
The study type is ecological, the universe is the entire Bolivian population; an overall estimated of 11 633.371 people, data was collected from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) in 2020, from all nine departments of the country, both urban and rural, the sample calculation was previously determined in the 2019 household survey by the INE.
Results:
The study found that the infection rate affected the urban area (76.6%) more than the rural area (23.4%); regarding control and management of covid-19 in the study population, it was found that n=1092 people tested positive in the laboratory test, and n=1220 needed medication for covid-19 and half of the surveyed population followed a therapeutic protocol for the management of covid-19 (n=1147).
Conclusions:
There is evidence of a relationship between social, educational and health care and management characteristics and covid-19 in the population assessed during the 2020 pandemic; however, more focused research is needed on the aforementioned characteristics.
Keywords : Bolivia; COVID-19; education; population; health surveys.