Evaluación de la Incidencia del Dengue, en relación al proyecto de control y prevención de enfermedades metaxénicas, Machala – Ecuador

Abstract

The aim of the study was to evaluate the incidence of dengue during the years 2012 to 2019. A non-experimental, retrospective, quantitative, descriptive study was carried out. For the preparation of tables and graphs, the Microsoft Excel 2010 program was used. Data were provided by the Department of Statistics of the Health District 07D02 Machala. In 2012, before the execution of the project, 467 cases of dengue were registered, at the beginning of the aforementioned project there were 477 cases, in 2014 there were 1,196 cases of dengue, in 2015 there were 2,791 cases of dengue; 653 cases in 2016; 372, in 2017; 34 in 2018; and 236 cases in 2019, registered in the city of Machala, finding that there is a decrease in the incidence from 2016 to 2018. The weeks with the highest cases, in 2015, were weeks 19 to 30, registering the week 23, the highest peak, with 322 registered cases; Meanwhile, in 2019, the weeks with the highest cases were 24, 40 and 48, finding that week 48 had the highest number of registered cases, with 14 cases. In conclusion, the incidence of Dengue, before the implementation of the "Vector Surveillance and Control Project for the prevention and metaxenic diseases in Ecuador 2013-2017", was in a considerable number of registered cases; During the first three years of project execution, there was an increase in cases, reaching a peak in 2015, and a decrease was observed in the last two years of program execution, 2016 and 2017. Since 2017, there are no records of cases of severe dengue, or deaths from dengue, in the city of Machala.