Open AccessPotential years of life lost by external causes among children from one to nine years of age from 2000 to 2018 in a brazilian state
Author(s) -
Luisa Chrisdayla Macêdo Santos,
Anando Rodrigues de Carvalho,
Maria Bianca Pereira Freitas,
Emanuel Thomaz de Aquino Oliveira,
Fernando Rocha dos Santos,
Glauceline Barbosa Coutinho,
Matheus Halex Ferreira de Mato,
Silas Alves da Silva,
Vinicius do Carmo Borges Silva,
Ana Christina de Sousa Baldoino,
Filipe Melo da Silva,
Jailson Alberto Rodrigues
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
research, society and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2525-3409
DOI - 10.33448/rsd-v9i11.9799
Subject(s) - years of potential life lost , life expectancy , demography , medicine , population , accidental , pediatrics , gerontology , environmental health , physics , sociology , acoustics
Injuries or any other health problems with sudden onset, generated by violence or other exogenous cause, are called external causes (EC). The indicator Potential Years of Life Lost - PYLL expresses the impact of early deaths in relation to the life expectancy for a given population. ECs were the major causes of death in children aged 1 to 9 years with 1,037 deaths (19.38%). Objective: To determine PYLL by EC among children aged 1 to 9 years in the state of Piauí, Brazil. Methods: This is a retrospective, longitudinal study with a quantitative approach. Its scenario is the State of Piauí. The population and sample were composed of deaths from EC registered in the Mortality Information System - MIS from Brazil, which occurred in children in the intended age group. For data analysis, the method that establishes a limit age for the calculation of PYLL was used, based on the average life of the population. Results: In Piauí between January 2000 and December 2018, there were 1,037 deaths (11.67%). The highest number of PYLL was found among male children, aged 5 to 9 years. Deaths caused by drowning were predominant, with 258 deaths (24.9%), being responsible for 16,857 PYLL, followed by accidents with pedestrians, with 184 deaths (17.8%), adding up to 11,911.5 years. Conclusion: Accidental drowning and submersion and pedestrian accidents predominate as the main EC. It can be estimated that 67,581 years of life for children aged 1 to 9 years were lost by EC in Piauí.