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OCORRÊNCIA DE ENTEROPARASITOS EM CRIANÇAS ATENDIDAS NO PROGRAMA DE SAÚDE DA FAMÍLIA DE UMA AREA DE ABRANGÊNCIA DO MUNICÍPIO DE VESPASIANO, MINAS GERAIS, BRASIL

2006; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE GOIÁS; Volume: 8; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5216/ree.v8i1.947

1518-1944

Moisés E. S. Santo, Thaia Ogando, Bruna P. V. Fonseca, Carmelino E. G. Júnior, Joziana Muniz de Paiva Barçante,

Child Nutrition and Water Access

The greatest copro-parasitological researches were developed until the 70´s in Brazil. In despite of the intestinal parasites are very important, because constitutes a severe problem to public health, contributing to the aggravation of the social, economical and medical problems. Thus, the objective of this study was to verify the occurrence of the most frequent enteroparasites among children (0-10 years old), in the Health Family Program (PSF) area situated in the district of Morro Alto in Vespasiano city, state of Minas Gerais,Brazil. It was analyzed 3250 handbook indexes of three PSF units. The general occurrence was 18.4% positive and some children have more than one parasite. The most founded enteroparasitos was Giardia lamblia (43%), Ascaris lumbricoides (34%) and Entamoeba coli (13%). The 6 to 8 ages shows the highest incidence of children with parasites. The data collected to this project evidenced that Vespasiano-city doesn’t have related researches to parasites, justifying the importance of this study and its results offers subsidies for elaboration of municipal public health policies for childhood and youth. KEY WORDS: Parasitic Diseases; Child Health (Public Health); Family Health Program.