Research Article

Child Health in the Peruvian Amazon: Prevalence and Factors Associated with Referred Morbidity and Health Care Access in the City of Iñapari

Table 6

Factors associated with respiratory symptoms in the previous 15 days in children aged under 5 years, 2011.

Variables ()Respiratory symptoms
Yes (%)No (%) value

Diarrhea in the last 15 days
 No8230.569.5
 Yes2568.032.0
Type of street
 Soil or no street8333.766.3
 Brick or asphalt2556.044.0
Type of sidewalk
 Soil or no sidewalk6830.969.1
 Brick or cement4052.547.5
Maternal smoking
 Never smoked8734.565.5
 Smoker977.822.2
 Former smoker1145.554.5

Chi-square test, Fisher’s exact test.