Exposición periconcepcional a factores ambientales y de consumo en padres y cuidadores de niños menores de 5 años en Santander.

Introduction: The development of strategies that facilitate the screening, diagnosis and approach of environmental factors during pregnancy and lactation, stages in which maternal and child health is exposed in an active or passive way to different agents; it requires implementing facilitative formats of a preventive approach. Objective: To identify environmental factors, from the periconceptional stage to childhood by using the "Green Page" of environmental health as a shared tool. Methodology: This is an observational and descriptive cross-sectional study. The sample consisted of 204 pregnant women and / or infants between 13 - 46 years old, from different municipalities in Santander. According to the nature of the variables, a descriptive statistical analysis was carried out. Results: The average age was 25.12 years (SD = 5.94). The pregnancy weeks average was 36.65 (SD = 5.63). Preconception of alcohol intake of 48.52% (n = 99), in which 91.91% (n = 91) consumed beer with a frequency of pre-pregnancy intake of 4.96 beers / month (SD = 4.58) (n = 64). The cigar intake of women in periconceptional stages was 4.90% with an average of 2.03 cigars / day (SD = 4.35). Conclusions: This study provides data from the local area, and moves a valid tool promotion and prevention tool to environmental health, so the application of this instrument would allow the integral approach of the mother-child care consultation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]