The Risk Factors and Prevalence of Pneumonia Among Fives at Sekou Toure Regional Hospital
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TextPublisher number: Wurzburg Road 35, BMC Premises, Post Code: 33102: P. O. Box 1464, Mwanza – Tanzania: Phone: +255 28 298 3384: Fax: +255 28 298 3386: Email: vc@bugando.ac.tz : www.bugando.ac.tzLanguage: English Language: Kiswahili Publication details: Mwanza, Tanzania: Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences [CUHAS – Bugando] : ©2015Description: 31 Pages; Includes ReferencesSubject(s): Summary: Abstract:
Childhood pneumonia is the single infectious cause of death in children worldwide. Pneumonia killed an estimated 935000 children under the age of five in 2013, accounting for 15% of all deaths of children under five years. Pneumonia affects children and families everywhere, but is most prevalent in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. These deaths occur almost exclusively in children with underlying conditions, such as chronic lung disease of prematurity, congenital heart disease, and immunosuppression.
In Tanzania pediatric pneumonia is one of the major contributors towards under-fives mortality and is accounted for 21.2% of under five in 2006 [3]. At S/Toure hospital to 403 children’s admitted for tropical diseases, 17.9% percent were diagnosed to have pneumonia while 82.1% with other tropical illnesses.
The mean years of children’s mostly diagnosed to have pneumonia ranges between 0-3 years but not so prevalent at 4-5 years children’s and substantial evidences revealed that the leading risks factors contributes to pneumonia to under-fives were poverty, under nutrition, delay seeking appropriate medical treatment, cultural beliefs and traditional medicines.
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Abstract:
Childhood pneumonia is the single infectious cause of death in children worldwide. Pneumonia killed an estimated 935000 children under the age of five in 2013, accounting for 15% of all deaths of children under five years. Pneumonia affects children and families everywhere, but is most prevalent in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. These deaths occur almost exclusively in children with underlying conditions, such as chronic lung disease of prematurity, congenital heart disease, and immunosuppression.
In Tanzania pediatric pneumonia is one of the major contributors towards under-fives mortality and is accounted for 21.2% of under five in 2006 [3]. At S/Toure hospital to 403 children’s admitted for tropical diseases, 17.9% percent were diagnosed to have pneumonia while 82.1% with other tropical illnesses.
The mean years of children’s mostly diagnosed to have pneumonia ranges between 0-3 years but not so prevalent at 4-5 years children’s and substantial evidences revealed that the leading risks factors contributes to pneumonia to under-fives were poverty, under nutrition, delay seeking appropriate medical treatment, cultural beliefs and traditional medicines.
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