Morbidity Profile and Seasonal Variations of Communicable Diseases among Hospitalized Patient in a Teaching Hospital Solapur (Maharashtra), India

International Journal of Medical Science

© 2015 by SSRG - IJMS Journal

Volume 2 Issue 6

Year of Publication : 2015

Authors : Lagdir Gaikwad and Santosh Haralkar

10.14445/23939117/IJMS-V2I6P103

How to Cite?

Lagdir Gaikwad and Santosh Haralkar, "Morbidity Profile and Seasonal Variations of Communicable Diseases among Hospitalized Patient in a Teaching Hospital Solapur (Maharashtra), India," SSRG International Journal of Medical Science, vol. 2,  no. 6, pp. 12-16, 2015. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23939117/IJMS-V2I6P103

Abstract:

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the morbidity profile of communicable diseases patients being admitted at the teaching hospital and the seasonal trend of diseases. Materials and Methods: The study was done retrospectively using secondary data, over a period of 1 year from April 1st 2014 to March 31st 2015, at the medical record section of Government teaching hospital, Solapur, Maharashtra, India. The study was aimed to study the pattern of communicable diseases among hospitalized patients. The data were collected from the communicable disease register maintained at medical record section under the department of community medicine and the diagnosis was classified into acute diarrheal diseases, dengue fever, hepatitis, typhoid, malaria, measles, diphtheria, meningitis, swine flu and tetanus. Results: A total of 1410 patients of communicable diseases had been admitted in hospital, which included 774 males and 636 females. It was observed that, ADDs constituted about more than one third burden of the communicable diseases followed by dengue fever. While tetanus was least recorded. Significant gender differences were evident in the prevalence of hepatitis, typhoid, malaria, meningitis and measles. Most of the diseases were observed to have a seasonal variation, with the ADDs and dengue fever peaking in the monsoon and winter months respectively. Conclusion: on the basis of these finding it can be concluded that most common Inpatient communicable diseases are ADDs and dengue fever whereas least is tetanus. The knowledge of the burden of the diseases would assist the health administrators in judicious allocation of the resources

Keywords:

Communicable diseases, Hospitalized patients, seasonal variation

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