Social and territorial inequalities in the mortality of children and adolescents due to COVID-19 in Brazil

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the mortality rate of COVID-19 among children and adolescents aged 0 to 14 years. METHODS: Ecological and exploratory study of children’s mortality rate by COVID-19 in Brazil, from February to October 2020. The study used the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome database to collec...

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Autores principales: de Faria, Rivaldo Mauro, Jantsch, Leonardo Bigolin, Neves, Eliane Tatsch, Hausen, Camila Freitas, de Barros, Amanda Peres Zubiaurre, Sehnem, Graciela Dutra, de Miranda, Marina Jorge
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9728821/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35946619
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2021-0482
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Sumario:OBJECTIVE: To analyze the mortality rate of COVID-19 among children and adolescents aged 0 to 14 years. METHODS: Ecological and exploratory study of children’s mortality rate by COVID-19 in Brazil, from February to October 2020. The study used the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome database to collect the data and made the analysis using descriptive spatial statistics by age and race/color classification. RESULT: The mortality rate due to COVID-19 represented 1.34 deaths per one hundred thousand in the total group evaluated. The age group with the highest frequency and mortality rate was 1 to 4 years of age. There is a higher frequency of deaths in the brown and Indigenous population. CONCLUSION: The distribution of deaths due to COVID-19 is unequal in the national territory, and there is a wide variation in the mortality rate by age and race/color groups.

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