title: Hospitalizations of Brazilian children under fiver years old: a systematic review.
abstract: to describe the causes of hospitalization of Brazilian children under five years old.
  
  
  
  this is a systematic review of articles published from 2008 to 2015, searched in the databases Medline and LILACS; selected studies were critically analyzed through a validated instrument.
  
  
  
  eleven articles were included, four of them are ecological and seven are cross-sectional studies; respiratory diseases (n=5), parasitic infections (n=4) and perinatal diseases (n=2) were the main causes for hospitalizations in the reviwed articles; in the studies that analyzed the sensitive conditions, pneumonia (n=6), gastroenteritis (n=5), and asthma (n=5) were the mais causes pointed out.
  
  
  
  respiratory, parasitic and perinatal diseases revealed to be the main causes for hospitalizations in Brazilian children; pneumonia, gastroenteritis, and asthma constitute the most important of hospitalizations, treatable in the ambulatory health care.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Pública, Campina Grande-PB, Brasil.
authors.forename: Dixis Figueroa
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Pedraza
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Mestranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Pública, Campina Grande-PB, Brasil.
authors.forename: Erika Morganna Neves de
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Araujo
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D010272:Parasitic Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D012140:Respiratory Tract Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy