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Epidemiology of COVID-19 in the State of Sergipe/Brazil and Its Relationship with Social Indicators

A pandemic is capable of generating a great impact, not only from the point of view of health, but also socioeconomically. In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that a new pandemic situation had arisen, due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, whose probable origin was zoonotic. The larges...

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Autores principales: Fonseca, Larissa M., de Sousa, Derijuli S., Cardoso, Juliana C., Severino, Patricia, Cano, Amanda, Souto, Eliana B., Lima, Sônia O., de Oliveira, Cristiane C. C., Reis, Francisco P.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9620914/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36417225
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/epidemiologia2030020
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author Fonseca, Larissa M.
de Sousa, Derijuli S.
Cardoso, Juliana C.
Severino, Patricia
Cano, Amanda
Souto, Eliana B.
Lima, Sônia O.
de Oliveira, Cristiane C. C.
Reis, Francisco P.
author_facet Fonseca, Larissa M.
de Sousa, Derijuli S.
Cardoso, Juliana C.
Severino, Patricia
Cano, Amanda
Souto, Eliana B.
Lima, Sônia O.
de Oliveira, Cristiane C. C.
Reis, Francisco P.
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description A pandemic is capable of generating a great impact, not only from the point of view of health, but also socioeconomically. In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that a new pandemic situation had arisen, due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, whose probable origin was zoonotic. The largest number of cases of this disease is concentrated in the United States of America (USA), India, and Brazil. The mortality rate is estimated at 3.4%, but regional differences may exist, and places with a high demographic density have become true epicentres and may be related to higher rates of transmission. In addition to the above, lower human development indexes (HDI) can be related to worse outcomes, especially in the North and Northeast regions of Brazil since they are the least developed places. The Northeast region is the second-most-affected place in the number of COVID-19 cases in Brazil. An analytical observational study of an ecological type was carried out from April to October 2020 to assess the epidemiological situation of COVID-19 in the state of Sergipe and specifically to analyse the incidence of cases and deaths resulting from COVID-19 in the different health regions of the state of Sergipe, in relation to the values of the HDI and demographic density. During the study period, 84,325 cases of COVID-19 were identified, in which 2205 resulted in death. In most of the regions studied, there was a positive association between the number of cases and deaths and the greater the demographic density, but there was no increase in the risk of becoming ill, nor of dying the lower the HDI. Large and crowded cities are places of greatest vulnerability to illness, due to their greater capacity of transmitting the virus; however, further studies are needed to identify other factors that are decisive in the outcomes of this new disease.
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spelling pubmed-96209142022-11-18 Epidemiology of COVID-19 in the State of Sergipe/Brazil and Its Relationship with Social Indicators Fonseca, Larissa M. de Sousa, Derijuli S. Cardoso, Juliana C. Severino, Patricia Cano, Amanda Souto, Eliana B. Lima, Sônia O. de Oliveira, Cristiane C. C. Reis, Francisco P. Epidemiologia (Basel) Article A pandemic is capable of generating a great impact, not only from the point of view of health, but also socioeconomically. In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that a new pandemic situation had arisen, due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, whose probable origin was zoonotic. The largest number of cases of this disease is concentrated in the United States of America (USA), India, and Brazil. The mortality rate is estimated at 3.4%, but regional differences may exist, and places with a high demographic density have become true epicentres and may be related to higher rates of transmission. In addition to the above, lower human development indexes (HDI) can be related to worse outcomes, especially in the North and Northeast regions of Brazil since they are the least developed places. The Northeast region is the second-most-affected place in the number of COVID-19 cases in Brazil. An analytical observational study of an ecological type was carried out from April to October 2020 to assess the epidemiological situation of COVID-19 in the state of Sergipe and specifically to analyse the incidence of cases and deaths resulting from COVID-19 in the different health regions of the state of Sergipe, in relation to the values of the HDI and demographic density. During the study period, 84,325 cases of COVID-19 were identified, in which 2205 resulted in death. In most of the regions studied, there was a positive association between the number of cases and deaths and the greater the demographic density, but there was no increase in the risk of becoming ill, nor of dying the lower the HDI. Large and crowded cities are places of greatest vulnerability to illness, due to their greater capacity of transmitting the virus; however, further studies are needed to identify other factors that are decisive in the outcomes of this new disease. MDPI 2021-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9620914/ /pubmed/36417225 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/epidemiologia2030020 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Fonseca, Larissa M.
de Sousa, Derijuli S.
Cardoso, Juliana C.
Severino, Patricia
Cano, Amanda
Souto, Eliana B.
Lima, Sônia O.
de Oliveira, Cristiane C. C.
Reis, Francisco P.
Epidemiology of COVID-19 in the State of Sergipe/Brazil and Its Relationship with Social Indicators
title Epidemiology of COVID-19 in the State of Sergipe/Brazil and Its Relationship with Social Indicators
title_full Epidemiology of COVID-19 in the State of Sergipe/Brazil and Its Relationship with Social Indicators
title_fullStr Epidemiology of COVID-19 in the State of Sergipe/Brazil and Its Relationship with Social Indicators
title_full_unstemmed Epidemiology of COVID-19 in the State of Sergipe/Brazil and Its Relationship with Social Indicators
title_short Epidemiology of COVID-19 in the State of Sergipe/Brazil and Its Relationship with Social Indicators
title_sort epidemiology of covid-19 in the state of sergipe/brazil and its relationship with social indicators
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9620914/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36417225
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/epidemiologia2030020
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