{"id":1263,"date":"2016-02-03T14:31:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T19:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crmcspl-blog.recherche.usherbrooke.ca\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2016-02-03T14:31:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T19:31:36","slug":"multimorbidity-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crmcspl-blog.recherche.usherbrooke.ca\/?p=1263","title":{"rendered":"Multimorbidity in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">By Bruno P. Nunes, Elaine Thum\u00e9, and Luiz A. Facchini<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/crmcspl-blog.recherche.usherbrooke.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bruno-Elaine-Luiz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1264\" title=\"Bruno Elaine Luiz\" src=\"https:\/\/crmcspl-blog.recherche.usherbrooke.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bruno-Elaine-Luiz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: left;\">We are very satisfied to disseminate our recent paper in International Research Community on Multimorbidity (IRCMo) site. This community was and continues to be very important for our studies related to this topic in Brazil.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Despite worldwide importance of multimorbidity and the specific Brazilian context (more than 200 million inhabitants, rapid epidemiologic and demographic transitions, and relatively new universal health system), populational information about occurrence of multiple health problems is scarce in the country. Thus, data from a population-based survey that we conducted in 2008 were used to provide information and start works about multimorbidity in Brazilian context. The sample was comprised by 1593 elderly (\u226560 years old) who lived in Bag\u00e9, a medium-sized city in Southern Brazil. The individuals were interviewed in their households through face-to-face interviews. In total, 17 morbidities were used and we measured multimorbidity according to two cutoff points: \u22652 and \u22653 morbidities. Descriptive analysis, and dyads and triads of diseases were calculated. We found that 94% of the sample presented, at least, one morbidity. High blood pressure \u2013 HBP \u2013 (55.3%) and spinal column disease (37.4%) were the diseases most frequent. Multimorbidity reached 81.3% (95 % CI: 79.3; 83.3) and 64.0 % (95% CI: 61.5; 66.4) of the individuals for \u22652 and \u22653 morbidities, respectively. As found in others studies, most vulnerable elderly presented higher occurrence of multiple diseases. For example, 87.1% of the elderly without schooling presented 2 or more diseases (22.3 percentage points higher than elderly which studied 8 years or more). \u00a0Another challenge to public health system was demonstrated by higher frequency of multimorbidity between individuals without health private plan and those who are living in Family Health Strategy (organizational axis of primary health care) catchment areas.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: left;\">These results about multimorbidity in older adults from Brazil may provide initial information to address multiple diseases in clinical protocols and contribute to subsidize actions in health services to management of multimorbidity.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: left;\">To access the full manuscript, please click in the following link: <a href=\"http:\/\/bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12889-015-2505-8\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12889-015-2505-8<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Furthermore, we are drafting others papers about multimorbidity in Brazil, including evaluation of national-based studies. Therefore, we would like to invite researchers interested in cross-country comparisons about a wide range of issues related to multimorbidity (prevalence, patterns, inequalities, use of health services and others) to contact us. Contact e-mail for further information: nunesbp@gmail.com.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Reference:<\/strong> Nunes BP, Thum\u00e9 E, Facchini LA: Multimorbidity in older adults: magnitude and challenges for the Brazilian health system. BMC Public Health 2015, 15(1):1172<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet By Bruno P. Nunes, Elaine Thum\u00e9, and Luiz A. Facchini We are very satisfied to disseminate our recent paper in International Research Community on Multimorbidity (IRCMo) site. This community was and continues to be very important for our studies related to this topic in Brazil. 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