Perfil de morbi-mortalidade por tuberculose pulmonar no agreste pernambucano.

Abstract

This is a retrospective, ecological, descriptive study with a quantitative and objective approach to analyzing the official data on hospital mortality and morbidity in the Unified Health System (SUS), pulmonary tuberculosis audits among elderly individuals in Agreste Pernambucano. from 2008 to 2017. Data on morbidity and mortality were examined by the Mortality Information System of the Ministry of Health (SIM / MS) and Hospital Information System (SIH), available for consultation in the database at the Department of Informatics of the System. Single Health (DATASUS). The variables studied were: race/color, gender, age, education, microregions of residence, marital status, death by local occurrence and average days of hospitalization during the years 2008 to 2017. The results of the study were before observed at a national level, observing higher rates of deaths and interactions related to males, aged between 20 and 59 years old, brown race, with low education level, without permanent companions and residents of the Ipojuca Valley microregion. Regarding the place of death and mean length of hospital stay, reduction, higher death records in the hospital environment and an average length of stay of 7.8 days. The work shows that both SIM and SIH can be low quality gain tools, resulting from the adoption of a relatively simple, feasible and easily accessible methodology. Thus, it is exposed to the importance of the institution of preventive measures in primary care, respecting the principle of equity, consequently reducing the occurrence and diffusion of new cases in the taxed groups as the greatest social vulnerability.