The association between improved standard of living and paediatric burns
| Autor: | Mario Kurtanjek, Rok Kralj, Ivan Petračić, Karlo Tadić, Zoran Barčot, Slavica Sović, Rado Žic |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Standard of living Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Logistic regression 030207 dermatology & venereal diseases 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Medicine Humans education Child Referral and Consultation education.field_of_study Poverty business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Population size Infant 030208 emergency & critical care medicine General Medicine Hospitals Pediatric Hospitalization Socioeconomic Factors Ambulatory Emergency Medicine Surgery Observational study business Burns Demography |
| Zdroj: | Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries. 48(3) |
| ISSN: | 1879-1409 |
| Popis: | Introduction In the “Children’s Hospital Zagreb Referral Centre for Paediatric Trauma of the Ministry of Health Republic of Croatia (MHC)” we observed a significant decline in the number of both hospitalised and ambulatory treated paediatric patients with burn injuries in the period from 2011 to 2018. Our hypothesis is that this decline could be either due to the decline of the paediatric population of Croatia or due to the economic growth and the improvement in the standard of living that Croatians have enjoyed in the past decade. Materials and methods In this observational study, we analysed data on the numbers of patients treated due to burn injuries from January 2011 to December 2018 in the Children’s Hospital Zagreb Hospital. Indicators of standard of living and population size estimates were obtained from Eurostat and the Croatian Bureau of Statistics. Associations between the proportion of people with poor standard of living and the number of treated patients were analysed with logistic regression models. Results Percentage of the population with low housing standards, percentage of Croatians with low level of education, percentage of children that live in jobless households, and percentage of children at risk of poverty and social exclusion were predictors of the rate of hospital admissions, ambulatory treated patients and total number of treatments. The slight decrease in the rate of treated patients was interrupted with notable decline in 2014 followed by the slight increase in 2015. Over following years, the rate did not change remarkably. Conclusion Apart from the decline of the paediatric population of Croatia, it is reasonable to assume that the improvement in the standard of housing, level of education and employment rate as well as the reduction in the risk of poverty and social exclusion in children had a notable contribution to the decline in the rate of paediatric burns in the observed period. |
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