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Inpatient flow for Covid-19 in the Brazilian health regions
- Source :
- Saúde em Debate, Vol 45, Iss 131, Pp 1111-1125 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Centro Brasileiro de Estudos de Saúde, 2021.
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Abstract
- ABSTRACT The study aims to investigate the flows of Covid-19 hospitalizations in the 450 Brazilian health regions and 117 health macro-regions between March and October 2020. This descriptive study includes all Covid-19 hospitalizations registered in the Influenza Epidemiological Surveillance Information System between the eighth and forty-fourth epidemiological weeks of 2020. In Brazil, 397,830 admissions were identified for Covid-19. Emigration was 11.9% for residents in health regions and 6.8% in macro-regions; this pattern was also maintained during the peak period of Covid-19 hospitalizations. The average evasion for residents of health regions was 17.6% in the Northeast and 8.8% in the South. Evasion was more accentuated in health regions with up to 100 thousand inhabitants(36.9%), which was 7 times greater than that observed in health regions with more than 2 million inhabitants (5.2%). The negative migratory efficacy indicator (-0.39) revealed a predominance of evasion. Of the 450 Brazilian health regions, 117 (39.3%) had a coefficient of migratory efficacy between-1 and-0.75, and 113 (25.1%) between-0.75 and-0.25. Results indicate that the regionalization of the health system exhibited adequate organization of healthcare in the territory; however, the long distances traveled are still worrisome.
Details
- Language :
- English, Spanish; Castilian, Portuguese
- ISSN :
- 23582898 and 01031104
- Volume :
- 45
- Issue :
- 131
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Saúde em Debate
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.1f73f1ffedbe4ad59069a6994296fc51
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1590/0103-1104202113113i