Sanitary's indicators of the university hospital hedi chaker of sfax in 2002

ABSTRACT

The objective of this work was to present the main results of this investigation during the year 2002 and to describe the profile of the hospital morbidity. In the setting of the epidemiologic supervision, the Community Medicine and Epidemiology service in Sfax leads a continuous descriptive study of the hospital morbidity and mortality. The average age of the hospitalized was 32, 10 years. The sex-ratio was estimated at 0, 94. The socio-economic level was relatively low. The chronic pathologies come in head and are dominated by the chronic renal failure, schizophrenia and diabetes. The profile of morbidity reflects an epidemiological transition phenomenon and call to a backing of the ambulatory handling and the development of specific services capable to make decrease the needs of hospitalizations