O impacto das variações climáticas na demanda de crianças e adolescentes aos serviços de emergência
OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of climatic variations on the demand of children and adolescents in emergency services. METHODS: Ecological study conducted in a city countryside of São Paulo, which analysis of 39,336 emergency room visits in 2018 and correlation with meteorological data obtained fro...
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| author | Letícia Bergo Veronesi Joelma Gonçalves Martin Guilherme Penaforte da Silva Maria Luisa Rua Prieto Adriana Polachini do Valle Paulo José Fortes VillasBoas José Eduardo Corrente |
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| description | OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of climatic variations on the demand of children and adolescents in emergency services. METHODS: Ecological study conducted in a city countryside of São Paulo, which analysis of 39,336 emergency room visits in 2018 and correlation with meteorological data obtained from the meteorological station of the College of Agronomic Sciences of the municipality. Poisson regression models were fitted considering the season, temperature, relative humidity and precipitation. RESULTS: The greatest demand for care was in the age group between 0 and 5 years (65.2%) with acute nasopharyngitis (8.7%) being the most frequent morbidity, followed by unspecified fever (6.1%); acute upper airway infection: 5.5%; acute tonsillitis: 5.2%; nausea and vomiting: 5%; diarrhea and gastroenteritis: 4.8%; cough: 4.6%; asthma: 4.2%; bronchopneumonia: 2.9% and acute pain: 2.4%. In summer, the most frequent morbidities were fever and diarrhea; in autumn: acute nasopharyngitis; in winter: IVA and fever; in spring: fever, acute nasopharyngitis. Acute nasopharyngitis, acute upper airway infection and bronchopneumonia mainly affect younger children and these diseases are more likely to occur at lower temperatures and in low air humidity. CONCLUSIONS: There is a different frequency of morbidities in the different seasons of the year, as the chance of occurrence change depending on age, average temperature, average humidity and has no correlation with precipitation. Therefore, from the analysis of the climate, health services can anticipate to promote preventive measures and meet a greater or lesser demand of patients. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7cc0747623cf420d83649a098c4352f82023-11-27T16:22:04ZengSociedade Brasileira de PediatriaResidência Pediátrica2236-68142023-09-0113310.25060/residpediatr-2023.v13n3-807O impacto das variações climáticas na demanda de crianças e adolescentes aos serviços de emergênciaLetícia Bergo Veronesi0Joelma Gonçalves Martin1Guilherme Penaforte da Silva2 Maria Luisa Rua Prieto3Adriana Polachini do Valle4Paulo José Fortes VillasBoas5José Eduardo Corrente6https://doi.org/10.25060/residpediatr-2023.v13n3-807Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Faculdade de Medicina, Pediatria - Botucatu - São Paulo - BrasilUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Faculdade de Medicina, Medicina - Botucatu - São Paulo - BrasilUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Faculdade de Medicina, Medicina - Botucatu - São Paulo - BrasilUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Faculdade de Medicina, Patologia - Botucatu - São Paulo - BrasilUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Faculdade de Medicina, Geriatria - Botucatu - São Paulo - BrasilUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Faculdade de Medicina, Estatística - Botucatu - São Paulo - BrasilOBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of climatic variations on the demand of children and adolescents in emergency services. METHODS: Ecological study conducted in a city countryside of São Paulo, which analysis of 39,336 emergency room visits in 2018 and correlation with meteorological data obtained from the meteorological station of the College of Agronomic Sciences of the municipality. Poisson regression models were fitted considering the season, temperature, relative humidity and precipitation. RESULTS: The greatest demand for care was in the age group between 0 and 5 years (65.2%) with acute nasopharyngitis (8.7%) being the most frequent morbidity, followed by unspecified fever (6.1%); acute upper airway infection: 5.5%; acute tonsillitis: 5.2%; nausea and vomiting: 5%; diarrhea and gastroenteritis: 4.8%; cough: 4.6%; asthma: 4.2%; bronchopneumonia: 2.9% and acute pain: 2.4%. In summer, the most frequent morbidities were fever and diarrhea; in autumn: acute nasopharyngitis; in winter: IVA and fever; in spring: fever, acute nasopharyngitis. Acute nasopharyngitis, acute upper airway infection and bronchopneumonia mainly affect younger children and these diseases are more likely to occur at lower temperatures and in low air humidity. CONCLUSIONS: There is a different frequency of morbidities in the different seasons of the year, as the chance of occurrence change depending on age, average temperature, average humidity and has no correlation with precipitation. Therefore, from the analysis of the climate, health services can anticipate to promote preventive measures and meet a greater or lesser demand of patients.https://doaj.org/article/7cc0747623cf420d83649a098c4352f8climate changeemergency medical serviceschild care |
| spellingShingle | Letícia Bergo Veronesi Joelma Gonçalves Martin Guilherme Penaforte da Silva Maria Luisa Rua Prieto Adriana Polachini do Valle Paulo José Fortes VillasBoas José Eduardo Corrente O impacto das variações climáticas na demanda de crianças e adolescentes aos serviços de emergência Residência Pediátrica climate change emergency medical services child care |
| title | O impacto das variações climáticas na demanda de crianças e adolescentes aos serviços de emergência |
| title_full | O impacto das variações climáticas na demanda de crianças e adolescentes aos serviços de emergência |
| title_fullStr | O impacto das variações climáticas na demanda de crianças e adolescentes aos serviços de emergência |
| title_full_unstemmed | O impacto das variações climáticas na demanda de crianças e adolescentes aos serviços de emergência |
| title_short | O impacto das variações climáticas na demanda de crianças e adolescentes aos serviços de emergência |
| title_sort | o impacto das variacoes climaticas na demanda de criancas e adolescentes aos servicos de emergencia |
| topic | climate change emergency medical services child care |
| url | https://doaj.org/article/7cc0747623cf420d83649a098c4352f8 |
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