[Factors associated with the incidence of tuberculosis cases in the municipality of Riohacha, 2018-2022].

Abstract

Objective: Tuberculosis, a curable and preventable disease, persists as one of the 10 leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the world population. According to epidemiological bulletins from the Mayor's Office of Riohacha, there has been an unexplained increase in the number of cases in the last five years.

Methods: This paper analyzes the factors associated with the incidence of tuberculosis cases from 2018 to 2022 reported in Sivigila. Different variables were analyzed and compared by comparison of proportions especially between 2021, 2021 and 2022 and as a group analyzed by principal component analysis using the R platform.

Results: It was found that men had a higher presentation than women, and of people without social security, that the age distribution of the disease was the same in the years evaluated, 90 °% of the positives were indigenous or migrants with a significant increase in the number of migrants. Occupation was the variable that most explained the presentation of the cases, and among them housewives and "not applicable" were the most important (48 °%), and there were no differences in the form of diagnosis in all evaluated.

Conclusions: It can be concluded that migration and the lack of social security contribute to the increase in the number of tuberculosis cases observed. It is paradoxical that men are the most affected but that the major occupation of presentation is housewives.