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Asthma mortality in children and adolescents of Brazil over a 20-year period.
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- Amenable Mortality in Children under 5: An Indicator for Identifying Inequalities in Healthcare Delivery: A Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Recent increase in asthma mortality in Brazil: a warning sign for the public health system.Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia · 2024Observational
- Relationship between air quality and asthma-related emergency hospital admissions in Mexico City 2017-2019.Thorax · 2023Article
- Knowledge and experience of Primary Education teachers regarding childhood asthma: mixed study.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P · 2023Article
- Identification and seasonality of rhinovirus and respiratory syncytial virus in asthmatic children in tropical climate.Bioscience reports · 2020Observational
- Asthma Mortality and Hospitalizations in Mexico from 2010 to 2018: Retrospective Epidemiologic Profile.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Zero tolerance for asthma deaths in children.Jornal de pediatriaArticle
- Evaluating the effect of childhood and adolescence asthma on the household economy.Jornal de pediatriaArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate the number of asthma deaths and the temporal trend of the asthma-specific mortality rate in children and adolescents up to 19 years of age in Brazil.
methodsThis is an ecological time-series study of asthma deaths reported in Brazil, in the population up to 19 years of age, between 1996 and 2015. The specific asthma mortality rate and its temporal trend were analyzed.
resultsThere were 5014 deaths during the 20 years evaluated, with the majority, 68.1%, being recorded in children under 5 years of age. The specific asthma mortality rate ranged from 0.57/100,000 in 1997 to 0.21/100,000 in 2014, with a significant reduction of 59.8%. Regarding the place of death, 79.4% occurred in a hospital setting. In this sample, the adolescents had a 1.5-fold higher chance of death out-of-hospital than children up to nine years of age. There was no significant difference in the temporal trend between the genders and no significant decrease in out-of-hospital deaths.
conclusionsThis study found a temporal trend for a reduction in asthma deaths over 20 years in children and adolescents in Brazil. Mortality rates varied across the geographic regions of the country and were higher in the Northeast. The prevalence of deaths under 5 years of age may be associated with the greater vulnerability of this age group in low-income countries. In adolescence, deaths outside the hospital environment are noteworthy. Asthma deaths are rare but unacceptable events, considering the treatable nature of the disease and the presence of avoidable factors in most of fatal outcomes.
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