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

ABSTRACT 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..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:75

Enthalten in:

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem - 75(2022), 6

Sprache:

Englisch ; Spanisch ; Portugiesisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rivaldo Mauro de Faria [VerfasserIn]
Leonardo Bigolin Jantsch [VerfasserIn]
Eliane Tatsch Neves [VerfasserIn]
Camila Freitas Hausen [VerfasserIn]
Amanda Peres Zubiaurre de Barros [VerfasserIn]
Graciela Dutra Sehnem [VerfasserIn]
Marina Jorge de Miranda [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Coronavirus Infections
Epidemiology
Mortality
Nursing
Pediatric Nursing.
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

doi:

10.1590/0034-7167-2021-0482

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

DOAJ035710411