Morbidity Related to Urban Summer Camp Activities in Scholars, Caracas, Venezuela, 2008

摘要

Summer vacations represent important opportunities fornrecreation and travel of young people from schools andnuniversities. These students may be involved in manyndifferent activities, organized and not. A common sourcenof recreation for such students is participation in summerncamps, in the city or outside it. In either case, thesenactivities can result in acute medical problems and ex-nacerbation of pre-existing chronic medical conditions.n1,2nHere we describe the experience related to the medicalnneeds of students during urban summer camp activitiesnheld in Caracas, Venezuela, during school vacation inn2008.