Abstract

NAVAS PEROZO, Rita  and  ROJAS-MORALES, Thais. Desigualdades sociales en Salud: Su expresión en niños  y adolescentes con cáncer ingresados en el  Servicio de Oncohematologia  del Hospital de Especialidades Pediátricas de Maracaibo. Estado Zulia. Acta odontol. venez [online]. 2009, vol.47, n.2, pp.292-298. ISSN 0001-6365.

Objective: To determine the inequities in health in children and adolescents with illness neoplásica, entered in the Service of hematooncologic of the Hospital of pediatric Specialties of Maracaibo. Zulia. Methodology: The sample was conformed by 46 mother and father. The sample was integrated by 246 patients. The Social inequalities were determined by socioeconomic status (measured by education, income, and employment), origin, geographical accessibility of the users to the Hospital, and accessibility to the chemotherapeutic treatment and medical technology. Interviews were made structured the parents of the children, to the Manager of pharmacy of the Hospital and representatives of the Foundation friends of children with cancer. Results: 46.9% the mother and father showed low levels of formal education. 56.5% had revenue similar to the monthly minimum wage, and 65,8% were labor unqualified. 92.3% of the patients were transferred to the Hospital in public transportation (average 2.96 hours of trip). 91% of the chemotherapeutic treatment is endowed by the Organization non government boy's foundation friends with gratuitous cancer, and appropriately and 8% for the Venezuelan State. Conclusion: The inequities persist in health expressed in a marked deterioration of the material conditions of life of the families of the children of this study and in the nonfulfillment of the paper of the Venezuelan state as guarantor of the right to the health and quality of life. The reduction of these inequities constitutes one of the biggest challenges in our society.

Keywords : social inequities; health; children; cancer.