OCCURRENCE OF PARASITIC DISEASES IN CHILDREN ASSISTED AT THE FAMILY HEALTH PROGRAM OF A VESPASIANO CITY DISTRICT, MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL

Abstract

ABSTRACT: 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.