Disponibilidade de dados na pandemia de COVID-19: hospitalização, acesso e iniquidades no estado de São Paulo-BR

Abstract

Introduction and objective: Passive epidemiological surveillance systems use information from the compulsory notification of cases notify for the health service. Some diseases need communication of the case to the authorities within 24 hours of diagnosis, for to the potential for public health emergencies. COVID-19 and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, a complication that causes lung damage, are part of this list. During a pandemic, some groups as the black and elderly population were exposed to many risks of illness and mortality, like so, this information is essential to show these effects of the pandemic potentialized by health inequities. We describe the availability of information and how that contributes to the knowledge of the groups most affected by the pandemic. Method: They were analyzed epidemiological reports from six cities in the State of SP and from the data repository of the SIS SIVEP-Gripe of the SEADE Foundation. In the period of August to December 2020. Conclusion: The municipality of Araraquara released complete information for the analyzed variables and the SIS SIVEP-Gripe repository, despite provide microdata to reveal the inequity, had significant underreporting rates of the race/color variable due to the lack of filling in the data by the health services.