FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME (SARS) AND DEATHS AMONG INDIGENOUS PEOPLE REPORTED IN THE INDIGENOUS HEALTH CARE SUBSYSTEM AND CONFIRMED FOR COVID-19 BETWEEN 2020 AND 2021
Indigenous Health, Epidemiological Surveillance, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), covid-19.
This study aims to analyze the clinical and epidemiological aspects of the distribution of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) among cases notified in the Indigenous Health Care Subsystem as suspected and confirmed for covid-19, in the period from 2020 to 2021. a study with descriptive and analytical components. The analysis of factors associated with the occurrence of covid-19 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome will be carried out through an observational case-control design. The first confirmed case of covid-19 in the indigenous population was registered in March 2020 in the state of Pará, by the Guamá-Tocantins Special Indigenous Health District. With the start of the pandemic, the Special Secretariat for Indigenous Health intensified health care and epidemiological surveillance of Flu Syndromes and SARS. Considering the challenges in indigenous health care in the face of the incidence of covid-19, especially serious cases, this descriptive and analytical study on the distribution of these cases in indigenous territories is justified. The research will use data from the SESAI Covid-19 Platform, with an emphasis on analyzing factors associated with the occurrence of SARS caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The study population covers all indigenous people considered suspected cases and notified by the health services of the Special Indigenous Health Districts (DSEI) during the years 2020 and 2021.