Abstract

DUERTO, Yhair et al. GEOREFERENCING OF PATIENTS WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS DIAGNOSED IN THE PROJECT ARAGUA UNIT - CARABOBO UNIVERSITY, PERIOD JUNE 1993 - JUNE 2011, VENEZUELA.. Comunidad y Salud [online]. 2012, vol.10, n.2, pp.057-066. ISSN 1690-3293.

Geographic Information Systems are defined as a set of computer technology, methods and procedures used in the handling and analysis of geographically referenced data. They can be used to map the distribution of diseases such as Cystic Fibrosis is a disease of genetic etiology with an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern, although it has a low incidence, complications of this disease are very severe and require treatment daily and frequent hospitalizations, representing a high cost to society. In Venezuela it is not known precisely the spatial distribution of this disease, which is why there was a descriptive research, documentary, retrospective, which allowed developing a geospatial model with 69 CF patients who were diagnosed in the Project Aragua Unit (UPA) during the period June 1993 - June 2011, resulting in the most common places of origin were: Capital District, Aragua and Carabobo; it also facilitated the identification of the pattient of distribution of georreferencial such patient and their relatives up to the second degree of consaguinity and presents the possible migration or “path” genetics of the genes for Cystic Fibrosis.

Keywords : Geographic Information Systems; Georeferencing; Cystic Fibrosis.

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