Mortality in the person younger than 5 years. Main risk factors

Abstract

A study of case  control is done during 2003 and 2011, at the Teaching Pediatric Hospital “Pedro Agustín Pérez“of Guantanamo, to identify the main factors of risk that influenced the mortality in the person younger than 5 years. All the deceased gone away (n=139 children) and a systematic children sample with the same age whom were admitted for similar illnesses, but children didn't die. Biological risk factors were analyzed and socioenvironmental too. As biological risk was found the illness associated with the pregnancy (anemia and urinary sepsis. The maternal age was lower than 18 years and superior to 35. The weight on having been born lower than 2 500 grams, the deficient nutritional state and the void or insufficient breast feeding. Socioenvironmental factors such as: the single or accompanied conjugal state, the insufficient schooling of the parents, the bad living conditions, the habit of smoking and the consumption of alcoholic beverages during the pregnancy.