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Infectio
Print version ISSN 0123-9392
Abstract
ALZATE, Juan Pablo; CALDERON, Viviana; PALACIOS, Jacqueline and GARCIA, Diego. Pneumonia and all causes mortality in children under 5 year old in Colombia between 2005 and 2016. Infect. [online]. 2021, vol.25, n.2, pp.108-113. Epub May 10, 2021. ISSN 0123-9392. https://doi.org/10.22354/in.v25i2.928.
Introduction:
Pneumococcal infections are one of the most important causes of diseases in children under 5 years old in Colombia.
Objective:
Evaluate mortality from pneumonia and all causes in children under 5 years old in Colombia.
Methods:
Ecological study, the main outcomes of the study was all-cause mortality and pneumonia (ICD-10 J12-18).
Results:
During 2005 to 2016, a total of 122,074 deaths were found for all causes, of which 13,359 (10.94%) corresponded to death due to pneumonia, 750 to meningitis (0.61%) and 17,511 to death due to other respiratory causes (14.34% ).
Conclusions:
A decrease in mortality has been observed in all-cause mortality rates, and the others studied death causes in this article.
Keywords : Pneumonía; Pneumococcal vaccines; mortality in children.
