COVID-19 in the municipality of Salvador: ecological study of the first months of the Pandemic

• Autor(a) principal: Pimenta, Rodolfo Macedo Cruz
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Silva, Rodrigo Marques da, Cardoso, Gustavo Marques Porto, Nery, Felipe Souza Dreger, Farias, Victor Valentim Lassaval, Figueredo, Wilton Nascimento, Macedo, Tássia Teles Santana de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/19783
• topic: COVID-19; Epidemiology; Public health.; COVID-19; Epidemiología; Salud pública.; COVID-19; Epidemiologia; Saúde pública.

Objective: to investigate the spatial distribution of confirmed cases and deaths of COVID-19 in the first four months of the Pandemic in the city of Salvador, from its health districts. Method: ecological study d with 34,691,000 confirmed cases and 1,589 deaths from COVID-19 in Salvador, Bahia, between March and June 2020. Data were analyzed in STATA 12.0 using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The mean number of confirmed cases was 109.2 cases/ ten thousand inhabitants. The districts of Barra/Rio Vermelho (143.8/ten thousand) and Centro Histórico (136.1/ten thousand) had an average of cases higher than the municipal average. There was an average of 5.4 deaths/ten thousand inhabitants, with the districts Liberdade (8.4/ten thousand) and Itapagipe (7.2/ten thousand) with averages higher than the municipal one. The districts of densities considered high (Botas, Itapagipe and Liberdade) represented 22.4% of the cases of diseases and 25.9% of the total deaths. The population and number of cases of H1N1 were significantly correlated with the number of cases of COVID-19 in the districts. There was an increasing trend in the number of cases, with average weekly growth of 27.17% (p-value < 0.001) and high in the period between March and June 2020. The health districts that had the highest growth in notifications were Barra- Rio Vermelho (30.3%), Cajazeiras (28.7%) and Pau da Lima (28.1%). Conclusions: the number of cases is higher in the regions with the highest circulation of people for economic and(or) tourist purposes, but lethality is higher in poorer regions of the municipality. The growing trend of cases requires attention to effective measures of social isolation.