Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a type of head injury with great relevance to the health service, affecting an average of 100,000 Brazilians/year. It’s one of the main causes of trauma morbidity and mortality, becoming an important public health problem. Objectives: Analyze the evolution of deaths, mortality rate (MR) and hospitalizations by TBI in Brazil during 2015-2019. Methods: An epidemiological, retrospective, descriptive study was carried out, using data from the Information Technology Department of the Unified Health System (DATASUS), during 2015-2019. Results: 514,666 hospitalizations and 48,554 deaths from TBI were reported during 2015-2019 in Brazil. In hospitalizations, the year with the highest records was 2015 (20.8%, n=106,980), while the lowest was 2019 (18.3%, n=94,055). There was a progressive reduction in hospitalizations in the period, with a decrease of 12.1% of hospitalizations in the interval. The number of deaths varied from year to year, with peak prevalence in 2016 (21.1%, n=10,264), and a progressive reduction after that year about 15.3% until 2019 (17.9%, n=8,691). Most deaths occurred in the Southeast (45.6%, n=22,144), while the Midwest (6.5%, n=3,169) registered lower rates. However, the highest MR recorded was in the North (MR=6.9), exceeding the national average (MR=6.3) in the period, while the lowest belonged to the South (MR=6.1). Conclusion: Despite the variations between 2015-2019, there was a decrease in deaths and hospitalizations in the period. Deaths were concentrated in Southeast, however, the largest MR was in the North.
Introduction: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, autoimmune and progressive pathology, is it the primary demyelinating disease of the nervous system and the most frequent in the world. Therefore, becomes relevant set the epidemiological profile of MS in Brazil aiming to understand hospitalization dynamics and evolution of disease. Objective and Methods: To analyze epidemiological profile hospitalization for MS in Brazil, from 2015 to 2019. An epidemiological, retrospective, descriptive study was realized through the Hospital Information System (SIH/SUS/ DATASUS), from 2015 to 2019. Categories used: sex, color/race and age group. It is not required appreciation by the Research Ethics Committee for using publics information, without identifying the participants. Results: In Brazil, from 2015 to 2019, 18.536 hospitalizations happened for MS, having growth from 2015 (n=2.083) to 2018 (n=4.755), with a decrease in 2019 (n=4.021). Southeast had higher percentual (66,98%, n=12.416), South (13,95%, n=2.585), Midwest (10,65%, n=1.965), Northeast (6,42%, n=1.190) and North (2%, n=370). The most of hospitalization it is in the age of 20 to 49 years (75%, n=13.892), with prevalence in females (69,8%, n=12.941), over males (30,2%, n=5.595) and proportion 2,31W:1M. White color is majority (53,7%, n=9.951), grayish-brown (24,8%, n=4.597) and indigenous people (0.005%, n=1). Conclusion: It was realized prevalence of hospitalization in women, of color white, age between 20-49 years, from Southeast. It urgent the importance of investigation, forward diagnostic and treatment of that pathology in country, to try decrease to the maximum injury affected population.
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