Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Service and Care for Smokers in the SUS
Andréa Ramalho Reis Cardoso,
Luís Felipe Leite Martins,
Fernando Lopes Tavares de Lima
et al.
Abstract:During the Covid-19 pandemic, the smoker treatment service was impacted. This article evaluated the impact of the pandemic on the service in the SUS. This is an ecological descriptive observational study using the National Tobacco Control Program (PNCT) database for the years 2019, 2020 and 2021, from five states (PA, PB, GO, RJ and RS) for the second four months. Relative differences were estimated in the number of units that offered the service and in the number of consultations for clinical evaluation, firs… Show more
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