Spatial analysis of hospital-related mortality due to COVID-19 among children and adolescents in Brazil.
Silmery da Silva Brito CostaMaria Dos Remédios Freitas Carvalho BrancoAndressa Rocha PereiraElisa Miranda CostaMayra Sharlenne Moraes AraújoDaniel Cavalcante de OliveiraBruno Luciano Carneiro Alves Luciano de OliveiraMaurício Eduardo Salgado RangelAline Sampieri TonelloDenise Ailine Monteiro LopesVanessa Vieira PinheiroAna Patrícia Barros CâmaraVictor Nogueira da Cruz SilveiraVitor Vieira VasconcelosPublished in: Ciencia & saude coletiva (2023)
The objective was to perform a spatial analysis of the hospital mortality rate (HMR) due to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) attributed to COVID-19 among children and adolescents in Brazil from 2020 to 2021. A cluster method was used to group federal units (FUs) based on HMR. In 2020, clusters with high HMRs were formed by north/northeast FUs. In 2021, there was a reduction in HMR. Clusters with higher rates remained in the N/NE region. Regional differences were observed in the HMR. The findings may reflect social inequalities and access to hospital care, especially in the under 1-year-old age group due to the severity of the disease in this group.