Internações hospitalares em adolescentes em Sergipe, de 2002 a 2012

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the hospital admissions of adolescents living in Sergipe, from 2002 to 2012. Methods: This is a descriptive study. Based on data from the Hospital Information System of the Unified Health System (SIH-SUS), hospitalizations for pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium, admissions for external causes, admissions for conditions sensitive to primary care and other hospitalizations. For the analysis, the following indicators were used: hospitalization rate in adolescents, in Sergipe, from 2002 to 2012, by year of hospitalization, sex, age, causes, discharge type and hospitalization value. Results: In the period, there were 149.850 hospitalizations of adolescents, 58.4% by pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium, 9.3% conditions sensitive to primary care, 8.3% for external causes and 24.0% for other hospitalizations. There was a reduction of all the coefficients in the period, an average of 32.3% and the admissions for conditions sensitive to primary care showed greater reduction (127.0%), followed by other hospitalizations (45.3%), the external causes (19.8%) and pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium (17.8%). This increase increased hospitalization costs, an average of 92.7%. Conclusão: Thus, we suggest that in Sergipe, there is a need to increase health actions to reduce hospitalizations for conditions sensitive to primary care and the incidence of external causes and pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium among teenagers Sergipe.