Study on acute respiratory infection in children aged 1 year to 5 years-A hospital-based cross-sectional study
2023; Medknow; Volume: 12; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1748_22
ISSN2278-7135
Autores Tópico(s)Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
ResumoAcute respiratory infections (ARIs) are the single greatest cause of death among children throughout the world. They are responsible every year for the deaths of 4.3 million children under 5 years of age worldwide. Community- or hospital-based surveys for finding out the prevalence and various factors associated with ARI are very few, especially in urban areas. Also, surveys to study the use of vaccines in preventing ARIs are scarce. Hence, we studied ARI in children aged 1 year to 5 years in a tertiary care hospital in Kerala. The aim was to determine the frequency of ARIs in the last 1 year in children aged 1 year to 5 years, attending the immunization clinic at Lourdes Hospital, Kochi, and assess the selected epidemiological, socio-demographic, nutritional and immunization factors associated with ARIs in the study group.
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