Prevalencia de discapacidades en la comunidad San Eduardo de la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

Disability is detailed as a term that includes both deficiencies and restrictions on individuals' activities; in personal, family and community development. The objective of the work was to determine the prevalence of disabilities in the San Eduardo community of the city of Guayaquil. The research had a quantitative approach, non-experimental design and descriptive scope; with a population of 2.759 people from Cooperatives 25 de Julio and Virgen del Cisne who participated in the Healthy Families and Communities Project of the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil. The results showed that of the minimum percentages analyzed at 4.2% corresponding to 116 members of the families: 2.2% suffer from physical disability; 1% auditory; 0.7% intellectual and 0.3% language. The study concludes that the conditions, customs of life and low socioeconomic strata, which are experienced by people living in the San Eduardo sector, reflect a framework of poverty, which adds to unstable work, economic imbalance, inadequate housing infrastructure and the unhealthiness of some households which translate into components that negatively influence the quality of life of the inhabitants. It is recommended to update the database, with this information to prepare the guide that allows an intervention with corresponding data for the prevention of disabilities.