Evaluación de riesgo para la infección por covid-19 en poblaciones indígenas

Abstract

Introduction: In Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019, it was reported for the first time, declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an international health emergency in January 2020 and classified as a pandemic in March of the same year, the Covid- 19, which is undoubtedly the topic of greatest clinical and research interest at the global, national, and local levels. The pandemic has not stopped and the social, economic, as well as health ravages have continued, despite the research and scientific advances that have been obtained in medicine, as well as the research completely dedicated to studying the new coronavirus, all social levels and strata have been affected. Objective: To identify the determinants that favor the increase in the transmissibility of SARS-Cov-2 in the indigenous population, through the analysis of the impact of COVID 19 on mortality and morbidity according to the comorbidities of indigenous peoples, and its repercussion from the psychological point of view during periods of confinement. Materials and methods: A community intervention was developed through an explanatory, experimental, longitudinal, and prospective study with deliberate intervention, in addition, a systematic review was carried out with the search for medical and scientific literature published during the period 2020 and 2021, from different academic search engines such as Scielo, PubMed, Scholar Google and ScienceDirect, where keywords were used to identify relevant studies. Results and Discussion: Through the application through digital means of the "Covid-19 Risk Survey", 381 responses were obtained, where the percentage of each of the xiii comorbidities and risk factors established by many studies about the predisposition to contagion by COVID-19, in addition to the development of a severity of its symptoms in relation to this population. Conclusions: It was concluded that the indigenous communities showed the overcrowding of families with few resources, in addition to the fact that comorbidities were also a cause of predisposition to infections and serious forms of COVID 19, being affected from the psychological point of view by the confinement and the little family interaction, in addition to the poor access to technological elements, the deficient information and the scarce leadership of its leaders favored a little diffusion of the preventive measures.