Factores de riesgo en gestantes del centro de salud de San Buenaventura Latacunga. Enero - julio 2018

Abstract

The risk factors in pregnant women are the main cause of maternal morbidity and mortality and have a greater impact in developing countries, the present study was based on determining the predominant modifiable and non- modifiable risk factors in women, pregnant women who were treated in the San Buenaventura Health Center in the period January –July 2018 th research of a descriptive, analytical, cross-sectional, retrospective type, performing an analysis of the medical records that rest in the statistical service of said institution, taking into account the described risk factors in the literature. 238 stories were analyzed, in which the extremes of life showed a high prevalence of 24% between (11 to 15 year and 35 to 45 years), an important factor is interfamily violence whose prevalence is 15% generating a situation of vulnerability in both mother and child, the presence of urinary tract infection 97%, sexually transmitted infections presented in 32%. In underdeveloped countries such as Ecuador, the lack of schooling remains a risk factor for our population, showing 9%illiteracy and 64%incomplete schooling. there are no other comparative data in the Cotopaxi canton that allow us to create a line based on this, we see the importance of carrying out this study, and identify the risks during pregnancy, achieving an approach in relation to the most prevalent pathologies in this are and promoting health policies aimed at reducing the morbidity and mortality rate maternal.