Distance from home to delivery hospital in children with birth defects in Bogota, Colombia
Objectives: Evidence the geographical distribution of the children in Bogotá with BD between 2015 and 2016 from the SIVIGILA database using GIS. Perform a cartographic representation of the cases found and compare it with international data. Methods: Addresses from the BD database of SIVIGILA were verified using two mapping and spatial analysis software. The Euclidean distance between mother´s home and birth hospital was calculated in km. Results: Twenty-one cases of BD were geocoded. A map of the Euclidean distances between the birth hospital and the residency was made.