Malaria and armed conflict: the situation of the rural areas on pacific coast of Nariño- Colombia 2003 - 2017

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https://doi.org/10.14482/sun.37.2.616.93

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Anopheles, Malaria, mortalidad, plasmodium, prevalencia., armed conflicts, malaria

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Background: to analyze the epidemiological behavior of Malaria in relation to armed conflicts presented on the Pacific coast of the Nariño (PCN).

Methodology: it was a multi-group ecological study with secondary information source, it was analyzed the frequency of Malaria in the (PCN) population and the relationship with armed conflicts in the region resulting from the country’s internal conflict during 2003 to 2017.

Results: Armed conflict affects the structure of health services which caring for the general population and malaria sufferers. The most common affections were the infrastructure, reduction in number of health personnel, conservation of vaccines and medicines, access to health care, the inability to do preventive activities and the poor presence of the government in the PCN area. Moreover, the displacement of the population to areas where the vector abounds increase the probability to get sick.

Conclusions: This study found an inversely proportional relationship between the frequency of malaria cases and armed conflict. This situation could show that maybe the “conflict” controls malaria. However, it is important to clarify that could be only a masking the reality of the PCN, because the situation that was facing this region caused that the population could not access the Malaria’s programs and health services, making difficult the diagnose, treatment and notification to the public health surveillance systems. These aspects could contribute to a cases reduction during the armed conflict period.

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José Israel Galindo-Buitrago, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Colombia

Doctor en Modelado y Gestión de Políticas Públicas, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Loza no. Magíster en epidemiología, Universidad el Bosque. Especialista en Auditoria  de Salud, Universidad Santo Tomas. Especialista en gerencia de Instituciones de  Seguridad Social en Salud, Universidad Santo Tomas. Odontólogo, Universidad  San Martin. Administrador de Empresas UNAL. Profesor cátedra, Universidad  Jorge Tadeo Lozano. Profesor cátedra, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.

CVLAC: http://scienti.colciencias.gov.co:8081/cvlac/visualizador/generarCurri culoCv.do?cod_rh=0001521050 

Rhonald Andrés Hernández-Rodríguez, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Colombia

Magíster en Epidemiología – Universidad el Bosque. Especialista en Epidemiología  – Universidad Surcolombiana. Enfermero – Universidad Surcolombiana. Pro fesor de la Universidad Antonio Nariño.  CVLAC:  https://scienti.minciencias.gov.co/cvlac/visualizador/generarCurriculoCv.do?- cod_rh=0001516935

Ingrid Astrid Jiménez-Barbosa, Universidad de La Salle, Colombia

PhD en Optometría, The University of New South Wales- Sidney-Australia, Magister en administración Universidad de La Salle, Especialista en Pedagogía- Universidad de La Salle, Especialista en Admi nistración de la Salud Ocupacional- Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano. Profesora de la  Universidad de La Salle y The University of New South Wales- Sidney-Australia. CVLAC: ht tps://scienti.minciencias.gov.co/cvlac/visualizador/generarCurriculoCv.do?cod_rh=000023 4443

Wilson Giovanni Jiménez-Barbosa, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Colombia

Doctor en Ciencias Sociales, Niñez y Juventud, Universidad de Manizales, Magíster en Administración,  Universidad de La Salle; Odontólogo, Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Profesor titular, Universidad  Jorge Tadeo Lozano. CVLAC: https://scienti.minciencias.gov.co/cvlac/visualizador/generarCurriculoCv.do?cod_rh=0000320331

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2022-01-19

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Galindo-Buitrago, J. I., Hernández-Rodríguez, R. A., Jiménez-Barbosa, I. A., & Jiménez-Barbosa, W. G. (2022). Malaria and armed conflict: the situation of the rural areas on pacific coast of Nariño- Colombia 2003 - 2017. Revista Científica Salud Uninorte, 37(2), 358–374. https://doi.org/10.14482/sun.37.2.616.93

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