A Systematic Review On Factors Influencing The Incidence Of Pneumonia In Children.

Abstract

Pneumonia is a burden for child mortality. Pneumonia influenced by various modifiable factors, need to understand a factors and health seeking behaviour to prepare community based intervention on pneumonia.

Objectives: 1. To assess the incidence of community acquired pneumonia in Children.

1. To identify the risk factors for community acquired pneumonia in Children.

Data Sources and Synthesis: This systematic review collected around 65 studies from various data sources such as PubMed, Biomed Central, Plus One, Helinet, Coherence, Google Scholar and Springer link. Based on the selection criteria 25 studies were analysed.The data synthesized on incidence, risk factors and health seeking behaviour and different aspects of pneumonia.

Interpretation and Conclusion

Various original research studies interpreted the incidence of pneumonia in children and lack of knowledge and practice, poor health seeking behaviour along with environmental factors are worsen the severity of childhood pneumonia. Complete Vaccination and effective use of health services promote the standard of care.

Recommendation

There is a need of community based intervention to prevent the occurrence of pneumonia and restore the paediatric health.