Social and territorial inequalities in the mortality of children and adolescents due to COVID-19 in Brazil

• Main Authors: Rivaldo Mauro de Faria (Author), Leonardo Bigolin Jantsch (Author), Eliane Tatsch Neves (Author), Camila Freitas Hausen (Author), Amanda Peres Zubiaurre de Barros (Author), Graciela Dutra Sehnem (Author), Marina Jorge de Miranda (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the mortality rate of COVID-19 among children and adolescents aged 0 to 14 years. Methods: Ecological and exploratory study of children's mortality rate by COVID-19 in Brazil, from February to October 2020. The study used the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome database to collect the data and made the analysis using descriptive spatial statistics by age and race/color classification. Result: The mortality rate due to COVID-19 represented 1.34 deaths per one hundred thousand in the total group evaluated. The age group with the highest frequency and mortality rate was 1 to 4 years of age. There is a higher frequency of deaths in the brown and Indigenous population. Conclusion: The distribution of deaths due to COVID-19 is unequal in the national territory, and there is a wide variation in the mortality rate by age and race/color groups.

Item Description

1984-0446
10.1590/0034-7167-2021-0482