Although gastroenteritis showed a decreasing trend in our findings, it still affects children throughout Brazil 26 , and reductions in these causes of hospitalizations indicate improvements in the health conditions of the population as a whole and demonstrate advances in PHC.
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Time series of hospitalizations for primary care-sensitive conditions in children in the state of Roraima, Brazil, 2010 to 2023.
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Among the groups of causes that showed an increasing trend, hospitalizations due to group 4 (nutritional deficiencies) stand out, as they showed constant growth in the period analyzed.