Hospitalizations of Brazilian children under fiver years old: a systematic review. / Internações das crianças brasileiras menores de cinco anos: revisão sistemática da literatura.
Epidemiol Serv Saude
; 26(1): 169-182, 2017.
Article
em En, Pt
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-28226019
Objective: to describe the causes of hospitalization of Brazilian children under five years old. Methods: this is a systematic review of articles published from 2008 to 2015, searched in the databases Medline and LILACS; selected studies were critically analyzed through a validated instrument. Results: eleven articles were included, four of them are ecological and seven are cross-sectional studies; respiratory diseases (n=5), parasitic infections (n=4) and perinatal diseases (n=2) were the main causes for hospitalizations in the reviwed articles; in the studies that analyzed the sensitive conditions, pneumonia (n=6), gastroenteritis (n=5), and asthma (n=5) were the mais causes pointed out. Conclusion: respiratory, parasitic and perinatal diseases revealed to be the main causes for hospitalizations in Brazilian children; pneumonia, gastroenteritis, and asthma constitute the most important of hospitalizations, treatable in the ambulatory health care.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Assistência Ambulatorial
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Hospitalização
Tipo de estudo:
Observational_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Systematic_reviews
Limite:
Child, preschool
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Humans
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Infant
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Newborn
País/Região como assunto:
America do sul
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Brasil
Idioma:
En
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Pt
Revista:
Epidemiol Serv Saude
Ano de publicação:
2017
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Brasil
País de publicação:
Brasil