Marinelli Natália Pereira, Albuquerque Layana Pachêco de Araújo, Sousa Isaura Danielli Borges de, Batista Francisca Miriane de Araújo, Mascarenhas Márcio Dênis Medeiros, Rodrigues Malvina Thais Pacheco
Universidade Federal do Piauí, Colégio Técnico de Teresina, Teresina, PI, Brasil.
Universidade Federal do Piauí, Departamento de Enfermagem, Floriano, PI, Brasil.
Epidemiol Serv Saude. 2020 Jun 3;29(3):e2020226. doi: 10.5123/S1679-49742020000300008. eCollection 2020.
to describe the evolution of indicators and capacity for health care in the initial phase of the COVID-19 epidemic in the Northeast region of Brazil.
this was a descriptive study based on COVID-19 case epidemiological bulletins released by the Ministry of Health up until April 1st, 2020. The incidence rate, lethality and number of cumulative daily cases were calculated.
1,005 confirmed cases of COVID-19 were identified, most of them in Ceará and Bahia states. The incidence rate was 1.8/100,000 inhabitants and lethality was 2.7%. Ceará was the state with the highest number of cases, with 29.6 new cases per day on average. Average intensive care bed availability in the Northeast region (1.04/10,000 inhab.) was below the national average (2.8/10,000 inhab.).
the indicators suggest that COVID-19 impact is heterogeneous and signal the challenges for health systems in the Northeast Region.
描述巴西东北地区新冠疫情初始阶段的医疗保健指标及能力的演变情况。
这是一项基于巴西卫生部截至2020年4月1日发布的新冠病例流行病学公告的描述性研究。计算发病率、致死率和每日累计病例数。
共确诊1005例新冠病例,其中大多数在塞阿拉州和巴伊亚州。发病率为1.8/10万居民,致死率为2.7%。塞阿拉州病例数最多,平均每天新增29.6例。东北地区重症监护病床的平均可用率(1.04/1万居民)低于全国平均水平(2.8/1万居民)。
这些指标表明新冠疫情的影响存在异质性,并凸显了东北地区卫生系统面临的挑战。