Abstract
The Journal is the primary organ of Continuing Paediatric Medical Education in Sri Lanka. The journal also has a website. Free full text access is available for all readers.The Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is now indexed in SciVerse Scopus (Source Record ID 19900193609), Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region (IMSEAR), CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International Global Health Database), DOAJ and is available in Google, as well as Google Scholar.The policies of the journal are modelled on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines on Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is recognised by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) as a publication following the ICMJE Recommendations.
Highlights
Respiratory disease is a common cause of hospital admission in children
Respiratory illness contributes to a significant burden on hospital admission of children. 1Senior Lecturer, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka *Correspondence: unirubaa@univ.jfn.ac.lk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7118-8993 (Received on 23 October 2020: Accepted after revision on 18 December 2020) The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest
In Sri Lanka, in 2017, respiratory illness accounted for 233,154 hospital admissions in children below the age of 16 years, of which pneumonia was responsible for 9484 hospital admissions[1]
Summary
Respiratory disease is a common cause of hospital admission in children. Respiratory diseases are common causes of hospital admission in children in Sri Lanka as well as worldwide. In Sri Lanka, in 2017, respiratory illness accounted for 233,154 hospital admissions in children below the age of 16 years, of which pneumonia was responsible for 9484 hospital admissions[1]. Pneumonia is a leading cause of death in under-5-year-old children[2]. Pneumonia contributes to 15.6% of mortality in under-5-yearold children[3]. Under-5 mortality in Sri Lanka was 8.8 in 2017 and pneumonia contributed to 16% of deaths of under-5-year-old children[4]. Another study done in the Colombo Municipal Council area in children aged 3-5 years showed an ‘ever’ wheezing prevalence of 38% and a ‘current’ wheezing prevalence of 21.3%8
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