Epidemiological Analysis of Hospitalized Cases of COVID-19 in Indigenous People in an Amazonian Region: Cross-Sectional Study with Data from the Surveillance of Acute and Severe Respiratory Syndromes in Brazil
| Autor: | Ana Lucia da Silva Ferreira Daniele Melo Sardinha, Claudia Ozela El-Husny Carmem Aliandra Freire de Sá, Emilyn Costa Conceição Karla Valéria Batista Lima |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences. 11:397-408 |
| ISSN: | 2319-7706 2319-7692 |
| DOI: | 10.20546/ijcmas.2022.1102.045 |
| Popis: | Indigenous people are considered more vulnerable to new infectious agents. In view of the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19, health authorities are concerned about the possible impact of the pandemic on reaching vulnerable populations, such as the indigenous people of the Brazilian Amazon. Thus, we aimed to carry out an epidemiological analysis of serious cases and deaths from COVID-19 in indigenous population in the state of Pará, Brazil. The data was obtained from the public Ministry of Health platform. Data analysis was performed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences 20, Chi-square of adherence, the independence test and G test. For spatial distribution was used ArcGIS. We observed 123 COVID-19 cases: 46 deaths (37.40%), male gender (76-61.79%), age above 60 years (61- 49.6%), the most frequent risk factor was chronic cardiovascular disease (18- 14.63%). The predictors of death were: invasive ventilation has (6.8) more chances for the outcome death, those not vaccinated against influenza have (3.5) and age (1.4). COVID-19 occurrence was higher in municipalities that have villages with health care or commerce, or with migrants from the Warao ethnic group. Notifications should take into consideration the specific issues of indigenous people so that effective control measures can be defined. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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