UTILIZACIÓN DE LOS PROGRAMAS DE PROMOCIÓN Y PREVENCIÓN EN LA COMUNIDAD ASIGNADA A UN CENTRO DE SALUD DE BUCARAMANGA-2010.

ntroduction: This article describes the knowledge and use of promotional programs and community prevention Bucaramanga four which is assigned to the Neighborhood Health Center Girardot. These in order to promote actions that strengthen induced demand strategy in this population and improve the knowledge of the programs to which they are entitled. Materials and Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional, with a sample of 430 inhabitants of the ten districts of the municipality four Bucaramanga. They worked in two phases: the first phase covering the neighborhood Girardot being the highest proportion and the second covering the remaining nine districts for the collection of information was chosen at random houses by map of the Commune was carried home visit, informed consent was applied prior processing of the instrument that measures the degree of knowledge and use of promotion and prevention programs that instrument was taken as reference, the instrument Realpe, Cecilia et al. Results: Regarding the sociodemographic characteristics of the commune population Barrio four Girardot has a high poverty rate, as evidenced by the low educational level and socioeconomic income insuficientes. En this population had low knowledge and use of promotional programs and prevention especially in the prevention program young adult and adult over 45 years. The program had greater knowledge and use was the prevention of community cérvix. La Ca assigned to neighborhood health center Girardot not using promotion and prevention programs, manifests as ignorance main reason approximately 40%, followed by not like the service, 20%. Discussion and Conclusions: The community assigned to neighborhood health centres belonging to the commune Girardot 4 of Bucaramanga has a generally low utilization of health promotion and prevention programs exist regarding the low level of knowledge presented in this community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]