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DIAGNOSTIC AND SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES IN MULTIPLE HOSPITAL ADMISSION IN CHILDREN UNDER 2 OVER A 5-YEAR PERIOD
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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 | ||||
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| 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 | ||||
| Official Date: | December 1993 | ||||
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| Volume: | 15 | ||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 5 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 332-336 | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published |
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