Morbidité et mortalité des adolescents à l’hôpital de Tsévié (Togo)

Summary: Aim: Describe teenagers’ hospital pathology in Tsévié’s hospital (Togo). Methodology: It was a retrospective study during 2 years from 1st January 2007 to 31st December 2008. Teenagers’ demographic characteristics, pathologies and identified problems were analysed. Results: On 8153 hospitalisations registered during 2007 and 2008, 791 (9.7%) were adolescents. Teenagers were distributed in 27.31% from 10 to 14 years and 72.31% from 15 to 19 years with a mean age of 15 years and 10 months. The ratio boy:girl was 0.52. The most frequented departments were maternity (34.90%) and medicine (26.70%). The pathologies were dominated by malaria 287/791 (36.28%) and teenagers came for delivery in 200/791 cases (25.28%). Traumatic lesions by public road accidents were most frequent in boys with 48/119 cases (40.34%). The evolution was favorable in the majority of cases, with a rate of 75.98%. The hospital mortality rate was 3.92%. Conclusion: The teenagers’ high frequency of malaria and delivery are health public problem. The solution is in the use of mosquito net, sexual and contraceptive methods education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]