Abstract

CARO DE PALLARES, Sara et al. Approaching a family with hypohidrotic ectodermic dysplasia from the view of the Family Health. Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2011, vol.27, n.1, pp.152-163. ISSN 0120-5552.

The Health of a family group is subjected to complex socio-economic, cultural, environmental, biological, genetic, psychological and relational factors, that shape health conditions, as it affects population dynamics in the onset of the disease, in fulfilling key roles in the biopsychosocial development of human beings and in decisions about the use of health services. In families with genetic diseases, their members develop fears to die at a certain age. The situation to be presented has occurred in a health center in the city of Barranquilla (Colombia), a schoolgirl who has arrived in the facilities for monitoring of growth and development is assigned to a student for follow up. She is diagnosed with Hipohidrotic Ectodermal Dysplasia.

Keywords : Family Health; ectodermal dysplasia; genetic; primary attention; interdisciplinary relation.

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