Prevention of contagion by COVID-19 in indigenous communities of the canton Ambato in Ecuador

ABSTRACT

Covid 19, was first reported in Wuhan, China, declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an international health emergency in January 2020 and classified as a pandemic in March of the same year, Covid-19, is without doubt the topic of greatest clinical and investigative interest world-wide, national and local, the purpose of this research work is to design a rele-vant community prevention strategy with the needs of these population groups, from a medical and scientific bibliographic base, As a theoretical foundation, a strategy for the prevention of infections by Covid-19 in indigenous communities of the Ambato canton in Ecuador was designed, which consists of seven phases that include data analysis and mapping of the population at risk;characteriza-tion of the group;needs assessment;initial evaluation of the state of health;execution and implementation of prevention and promotion activities;final evaluation and socialization of the results.