Determinantes socioeconômicos e ambientais do declínio das hospitalizações por diarréias em lactentes no Rio Grande do Norte - 1992 a 2001

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Andrade, Ion Garcia Mascarenhas de
• Orientador(a): Jerônimo, Selma Maria Bezerra
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde
• Departamento: Ciências da Saúde
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Diarréia; Mortalidade infantil; Inflação; Analfabetismo; Saneamento básico; Baixa renda; Pobreza
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Diarrhoea; Infant mortality; Inflation; Illiteracy; Sanitation; Low income; Poverty,; Hospitalization
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA::SAUDE PUBLICA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/13139

There was a significant decline in hospitalizations for acute diarrhea in children younger than 1 year of age in Brazil between 1992 to 2001. The less economically developed state of Rio Grande do Norte is a case example of the national trend. In this work, we show a significant association between improvements in socioeconomic variables as well as increased access to sanitation and the decreased rate of hospitalization. Additionally, we observed a positive, seasonal correlation between rainfall and hospitalizations. Most notably, however, we show that improvements in income and inflation were positively correlated with a decline in hospitalizations. Improvements in public health infrastructure, socioeconomic variables like education and literacy, and increased investment in health services were important in reducing severe early childhood diarrheas. However, the data suggests that increased buying power and reductions in poverty played an equally crucial role in reducing hospitalizations for acute diarrhea in infants in Brazil. The work includes elements of the demography of the period for the age groups involved, children under one year, women in fertile age and fertility rate