EN PT


0444/2017 - Climate variability and hospital admissions due to infectious diarrheal diseases in a municipality of the Western Brazilian Amazon.
Variabilidade climática e internações por doenças diarreicas infecciosas em um município da Amazônia Ocidental Brasileira.

Author:

• Juliana Lúcia Duarte - Duarte, JL - <jluciaduarte@hotmail.com>

Co-author(s):

• Fredi Alexander Diaz-Quijano - Diaz-Quijano, F.A - <frediazq@msn.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1134-1930
• Antonio Carlos Batista - Batista, AC - <batistaufpr@ufpr.br>
• Alejandro Fonseca Duarte - Duarte, AF - <fd.alejandro@gmail.com>
• Leonardo Augusto Kohara Melchior - Melchior, LAK - <lmelchior@gmail.com>
• Leandro Luiz Giatti - Giatti, LL - <lgiatti@usp.br>


Abstract:

The morbidity and mortality due to infectious diarrheal diseases still represents a serious health problem in Brazil and is highly related to factors such as weather, environment, and life conditions of the population. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relation between hospital admission rates due to infectious diarrheal diseases among the population of the municipality of Rio Branco/AC and precipitation, the level of the river, humidity, and temperature between 2000 and 2013. The data were takenthe Hospital Information System of the SUS (Unified Health System), the National Institute of Meteorology, and the National Water Agency. Multiple Poisson regression and negative binomial models were adjusted. The results showed that there was a positive association between hospital admission due to infectious diarrheal diseases and the level of the Acre river (RR: 1.07; CI 95%: 1.04 to 1.1); there was a decrease of 14% in these rates of hospital admissions between 2000 and 2013 (RR: 0.86; CI 95%: 0.85 to 0.87). The most vulnerable group was the age group of less than 1 year of age. This study showed the vulnerability of a city in the Amazon to climate variability and its respective epidemiological influence on the incidence of hospital admissions due to infectious diarrheal diseases.

Keywords:

diarrhea; floods; climate; climate change; Amazonian ecosystem

Content:

Access Issue in Scielo

Other languages:







How to

Cite

Duarte, JL, Diaz-Quijano, F.A, Batista, AC, Duarte, AF, Melchior, LAK, Giatti, LL. Climate variability and hospital admissions due to infectious diarrheal diseases in a municipality of the Western Brazilian Amazon.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2017/Nov). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/climate-variability-and-hospital-admissions-due-to-infectious-diarrheal-diseases-in-a-municipality-of-the-western-brazilian-amazon/16496



Execution



Sponsors