[Case control study on death risk factors in children with pneumonia. Research Group of Pneumonia in MCH Model County].
Pneumonia is the first cause of death in children in China. The associated risk factors of death due to pneumonia were investigated by the case control study. Data of 189 pairs was analysed and indicated that 5 major factors could increase death from pneumonia (rickets, scleredema, congenital malformation, malnutrition and low birth weight). The poor individual health condition is the key problem for death. That parents did not know severity of pneumonia and did not timely bring the sick child to doctors could increase death. Primary health workers made more mistakes in diagnosis (66.67%) and treatment (78.18%) compared with those made by township doctors and county doctors. So parents and doctors could play an important role in dropping the mortality of pneumonia.
D000293:Adolescent; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000401:mortality*; D012307:Risk Factors