Author:

• Alba Idaly Muñoz Sanchez - Alba Idaly Muñoz Sanchez - Bogotá/Colombia Sao Paulo- Brasil, Bogota - Universidade Nacional de Colombia ) - <edualla@yahoo.com>

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Abstract:

Tuberculosis remains as a public health problem in the national and worl-wide panorama. The objective of the present study was to identify aspects that characterize the vulnerability to tuberculosis in resident students at the Residential Rooms of the University of Sao Paulo (CRUSP).
The date relative to individual vulnerability were collected by means of a questionnaire during the period of October to November of the year 2002. The theoretical reference and the interpretation frame to analize the issue of tuberculosis were given in the theorethical frame of Vulnerability .The study sample completed 106 students being 69.8% pregraduated students and and 30.2% postgraduated students. The proportion of emigrants Internal and external) reached 43.4%. 79 (74.5%) answered that the disease can be cured. Nearly 60 (56.6%) answered that they did not know the causal agent of the disease and 72 (67.9%) said that they had already heard about tuberculosis, and for 5 of them(6.9%) it happenned at health institutions. It was also asked if they knew where to ask in order to get tests to verify the presence of the disease and 48 (45.3%) answered that they did not know where to ask.

Although some results are positive it is identified the individual vulnerability of the students especially having in mind that they are apparently a well differentiated group, because in thesis they would have more favourable conditions to acced to the information related to the disease.

Key words: Tuberculosis, vulnerability, university students.

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