Challenges and health-care priorities for reducing the burden of paediatric sepsis in Latin America: a call to action.
Lancet Child Adolesc Health
; 6(2): 129-136, 2022 02.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1677246
ABSTRACT
Sepsis is a worldwide public health problem due to its high incidence and accompanying mortality, morbidity, and financial burden. It is a major cause of admission to paediatric intensive care units; despite advances in the diagnosis and treatment, both incidence and mortality are high in low-income and middle-income countries. There are several barriers in addressing the enormous burden of paediatric sepsis in these countries, which include lack of data of incidence and mortality; unfamiliarity of sepsis by the lay public, leading to failure to seek care early, and by health professionals, leading to failure to treat emergently; and insufficient government funding for sepsis care programmes leading to inadequate staffing, material, and financial resources, and therefore, poor health systems. Socioeconomic inequalities, such as inequity and marked variation in income and education, high rates of malnutrition, high percentage of young population, and health systems that do not meet the population's demands also represent barriers in the care of children with sepsis in Latin America. In this Viewpoint, we draw attention to the problem of paediatric sepsis in Latin America and call for action to reduce the disease burden by proposing some solutions.
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Cost of Illness
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Sepsis
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Health Priorities
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Adolescent
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Child
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Child, preschool
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Lancet Child Adolesc Health
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
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