[Health indicators of the University Hospital Center Hedi Chaker of Sfax in 2002].
OBJECTIVE
The objective of this work was to present the main results of this investigation during the year 2002 and to describe the profile of the hospital morbidity.


METHODS
In the setting of the epidemiologic supervision, the Community Medicine and Epidemiology service in Sfax leads a continuous descriptive study of the hospital morbidity and mortality.


RESULTS
The average age of the hospitalized was 32.10 years. The sex-ratio was estimated at 0.94. The socio-economic level was relatively low. The chronic pathologies come in head and are dominated by: the chronic renal failure, schizophrenia and diabetes. The profile of morbidity reflects an epidemiological transition phenomenon and call to a backing of the ambulatory handling and the development of specific services capable to make decrease the needs of hospitalizations
Yaich
Sourour
S
Service de Médecine Communautaire et d'Epiddmiologie, CHU Hédi Chaker, Sfax.
Kassis
Mondher
M
Karray
Mohamed Abderraouf
MA
Fki
Habib
H
Damak
Jamel
J
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001988:Bronchiolitis / Q000453:epidemiology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000453:epidemiology; D016021:Epidemiologic Studies; D005260:Female; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000453:epidemiology; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007938:Leukemia / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012127:Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000453:epidemiology; D012737:Sex Factors; D012923:Social Class; D014416:Tunisia / Q000453:epidemiology