UNSPECIFIED. (1993) DIAGNOSTIC AND SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES IN MULTIPLE HOSPITAL ADMISSION IN CHILDREN UNDER 2 OVER A 5-YEAR PERIOD. JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH MEDICINE, 15 (4). pp. 332-336. ISSN 0957-4832

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Abstract

Diagnostic and socio-demographic changes for children experiencing multiple hospital admissions (three or more) before the age of two years in two whole-year birth cohorts five years apart - 1980 and 1985 - are reported. The increase in multiple admissions between 1980 and 1985 was distributed evenly throughout the diagnostic groups. Although a disproportionate increase in admissions per child for asthma was noted, the results suggest that the increase accounts for only a small proportion of the total increase. A marked trend to earlier age of first admission is reported. Low-birthweight infants, infants of young mothers and infants from deprived areas of the city are over-represented in the multiple admission groups in both cohorts. There was a marked increase in the proportion of low-birthweight infants in the multiple admissions group between 1 980 and 1 985 compared with a decrease in the percentage of low-birthweight infants in the control group over the same period. The study results are discussed with particular reference to the unexplained increase in early childhood admissions.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Journal or Publication Title:	JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH MEDICINE
Publisher:	OXFORD UNIV PRESS UNITED KINGDOM
ISSN:	0957-4832
Date:	December 1993
Volume:	15
Number:	4
Number of Pages:	5
Page Range:	pp. 332-336
Publication Status:	Published
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/20859

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