The Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) will monitor four diseases that affect and kill the local population.
These illnesses are responsible for causing disability and death in the population, so the idea is to carry out interventions that reduce their impact.
María Eugenia Villalta, medical manager of the CCSS, explained that the tool allows monitoring of acute myocardial infarction, strokes, hip fractures and non-traumatic amputations, caused especially by vascular injuries caused by diseases such as diabetes and disorders in fats.
It was designed by specialists in epidemiology and collects information from these situations from 2011 to 2016, with data from institutional statistics and the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC).
With this new technological option, interested people can add data. It will also be possible to consult on which sex is the most affected, at what average age the illnesses are appearing, among other indicators.
According to Roy Wong, one of the specialists who designed the tool, this information will allow the different dependencies of the CCSS, municipalities, associations of integral development and diverse groupings to design action plans tending to contain the impact of such diseases and to take decisions from the point of view of health promotion, prevention, care and rehabilitation.
The data so far show that acute myocardial infarction affects the male population with greater emphasis and the average age of people with this condition is 60 years old.
The provinces with the greatest rate of myocardial infarction are San José, Alajuela, Cartago and Heredia.
In relation to hip fractures, they show predominance in the female population with an increasing tendency that ranges from 2,400 cases to 2,800.
On strokes, the tool makes it possible to determine that its tendency is increasing and affects the male population more.