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Cost-effectiveness of mandatory folic acid fortification of flours in preventio...
Rodrigues, Viviane Belini; Silva, Everton Nunes da; Santos, Leonor Maria PachecoBackground Neural tube defects (NTDs) constitute the most frequent group among congenital malformations and are the main cause of neonatal morbimortality. Folic acid (FA) can reduce the risk of pregnancies affected by NTDs. Objective We aimed to investigate whether mandatory folic acid (FA) fortification of flours is cost-effective as compared to non-mandatory fortification, and to verify whether FA dosage, cos...
Trends in COVID-19 case-fatality rates in Brazilian public hospitals : a longit...
Zimmermann, Ivan Ricardo; Sanchez, Mauro Niskier; Frio, Gustavo Saraiva; Alves, Layana Costa; Pereira, Claudia Cristina de AguiarAlmost 200,000 deaths from COVID-19 were reported in Brazil in 2020. The case fatality rate of a new infectious disease can vary by different risk factors and over time. We analysed the trends and associated factors of COVID-19 case fatality rates in Brazilian public hospital admissions during the first wave of the pandemic.
The disruption of elective procedures due to COVID‑19 in Brazil in 2020
Frio, Gustavo Saraiva; Russo, Letícia Xander; Albuquerque, Cleandro Pires de; Mota, Licia Maria Henrique da; Barros‑Areal, Adriana FerreiraElective procedures were temporarily suspended several times over the course of the pandemic of COVID-19. Monthly data from the Unifed Health System (SUS) were used for the period between January 2008 and December 2020 and the interrupted time series method was used to estimate the efect of the pandemic on the number of elective surgeries and elective procedures that were not performed. Considering a 9-month pe...
Association of the new zero‑tolerance drinking and driving law with hospitaliza...
Souza, Cássia Rebeca de Lima; Russo, Letícia Xander; Silva, Everton Nunes daWe investigated the association of the new zero-tolerance drinking and driving law (Law 12,760, Dec. 2012) with hospital admissions due to road trafc injuries in Brazil by using interrupted time series from 2008 to 2019. We used linear regression designed to adjust for autocorrelation and Cumby–Huizinga test for residual autocorrelation. Newey–West standard errors was used to handle heteroscedasticity. We used ...
Fluxo de internação por Covid-19 nas regiões de saúde do Brasil
Silva, Everton Nunes da; Soares, Fernando Ramalho Gameleira; Frio, Gustavo Saraiva; Oliveira, Aimê; Cavalcante, Fabrício VieiraUniversidade de Brasília. Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde. Brasília, DF, Brasil.; Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.; Universidade de Brasília. Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde. Brasília, DF, Brasil.; Universidade de Brasília. Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde. Brasília, DF, Brasil.; Universidade de Brasília. Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde. Brasília, DF,...
Fluxo de internação por COVID-19 nas regiões de saúde do Brasil
Silva, Everton Nunes da; Soares, Fernando Ramalho Gameleira; Frio, Gustavo Saraiva; Oliveira, Aimê; Cavalcante, Fabrício VieiraUniversidade de Brasília. Faculdade de Ceilândia. Curso de Saúde Coletiva. Brasília, DF, Brasil / Universidade de Brasília. Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva. Brasília, DF, Brasil.; Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Pública. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.; Universidade de Brasília. Faculdade de Ciência...
Inpatient flow for COVID-19 in the Brazilian health regions
Silva, Everton Nunes da; Soares, Fernando Ramalho Gameleira; Frio, Gustavo Saraiva; Oliveira, Aimê; Cavalcante, Fabrício VieiraObjective: To investigate the flows of hospitalizations for COVID-19 in the 450 regions and 117 Brazilian health macro-regions between March and October 2020. Method: Descriptive study, comprising all hospitalizations due to COVID-19 registered in the Flu Epidemiological Surveillance Information System (SIVEP-Gripe) between the 8th and 44th epidemiological weeks of 2020. The proportion of hospitalizations for C...
Timely availability of public data for health management: COVID-19 wave´s analysis
Moura, Erly Catarina; Silva, Everton Nunes da; Sanchez, Mauro Niskier; Cavalcante, Fabrício Vieira; Oliveira, Luciana Gonzaga de; Oliveira, AimêThe aim of this study is to support health management, with recent and reliable information, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Notified and confirmed cases and deaths by COVID-19 were evaluated from three public databases. 1) Data from the Coronavirus Panel of the Ministry of Health, updated daily, show the existence of two epidemic waves. 2) The Civil Registry Transparency Portal, also with recen...
COVID-19 as the leading cause of hospital deaths in the Brazilian public health...
Zimmermann, Ivan Ricardo; Sanchez, Mauro Niskier; Alves, Layana Costa; Frio, Gustavo Saraiva; Cavalcante, Fabrício Vieira; Escalante, Juan José CortezObjectives: To describe the profile of hospital deaths in Brazil according to cause of admission during the pre-pandemic (2019) and pandemic periods (2020). Methods: Descriptive study based on individual-level records of all hospital admissions with death outcomes reimbursed by the Brazilian National Health System in 2019 and 2020. Results: The number of hospital deaths increased by 16.7% in 2020 compared with ...
Fluxo de internação por COVID-19 nas regiões de saúde do Brasil
Silva, Everton Nunes da; Soares, Fernando Ramalho Gameleira; Frio, Gustavo Saraiva; Oliveira, Aimê; Cavalcante, Fabrício VieiraObjetivo: Investigar os fluxos de internações por COVID-19 nas 450 regiões e 117 macrorregiões de saúde brasileiras no período de março a outubro de 2020. Método: Estudo descritivo, compreendendo todas as internações por COVID-19 registradas no Sistema de Informação de Vigilância Epidemiológica da Gripe (SIVEP-Gripe) entre a 8ª e a 44ª semanas epidemiológicas de 2020. Foi calculada a proporção das internações p...