INTRODUCTION: Respiratory diseases (RD) represent a significant cause of hospitalization in Brazil, occupying the first position in the rank by group of diseases. OBJECTIVE: To identify social determinants (SD) of intra-urban differentials of hospitalizations by RD and their main types (asthma and pneumonia) a study of spatial aggregation was carried out in Salvador (BA), between 2001 and 2007, taking Informati...
Para verificar as desigualdades sociais nas hospitalizações por doenças do aparelho respiratório em Salvador, Bahia, Brasil, 2001-2007, realizou-se estudo ecológico espacial, tendo como unidade de análise zonas de informação. Estas foram estratificadas considerando um indicador de condições de vida e analisadas por regressão de Poisson. A distribuição espacial das taxas de hospitalização por doenças do aparelho...
Respiratory diseases are the leading cause of hospitalizations in Brazil (excluding hospital admissions related to childbirth, pregnancy, and postpartum). To analyze the trend and seasonality of hospitalizations for respiratory diseases in Salvador, Bahia State, Brazil, 1998-2009, a time trend study was performed using simple linear regression. Hospitalization rates for all respiratory diseases and specifically...