This study aims to characterize the epidemiological profile of hospitalizations for traffic accidents involving motorcyclists in Brazil, in the period from 2016 to 2021. For this, secondary data were collected on motorcycle accidents in Brazil that occurred between 2016 and 2021, where information was collected from the Hospital Admission System (SIH) of the Informatics Department of the Unified Health System (...
Objective: To analyze the spatial dynamics of income inequality and its relationship with population aging in Brazil. Method: A population-based ecological study using spatial analysis techniques and data from the last two Brazilian Demographic Census. Spatial modeling presented the Global Moran Index (I) and Local Spatial Association Index (LISA) through spatial autocorrelation, and the correlation between inc...
To analyze the positivity and risk factors associated with infection of schistosomesis mansoni and enteroparasitosis in an endemic area, Sergipe, Brazil. This is a cross-sectional study. The study involved 160 residents of the village of Siebra, located in the rural area of the municipality of Maruim, Sergipe. The positivities for Schistosoma mansoni and/or enteroparasites were identified using the Kato-Katz me...
Traffic accidents represent an important public health problem worldwide, due to the morbidity and mortality impact and quality of life of the victims, this article aimed to evaluate the predictive factors and the quality of life of victims of trauma due to traffic accidents. from an observational cross-sectional study. The sample was non-probabilistic for convenience, composed of 73 victims of trauma due to tr...
Introduction: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a global public health emergency with lethality ranging from 1% to 5%. This study aimed to identify active high-risk transmission clusters of COVID-19 in Sergipe. Methods: We performed a prospective space-time analysis using confirmed cases of COVID-19 during the first 7 weeks of the outbreak in Sergipe. Results: The prospective space-time statistic d...
Purpose: We estimated the potential number of COVID-19 deaths for Brazil for the next months. Methods: The study included all confirmed cases of COVID-19 deaths, from the first confirmed death on March 17 until May 15, 2020. These data were collected from an official Brazilian website of the Ministry of Health. The Boltzmann function was applied to a data simulation for each set of data regarding to all states ...