Assessing morbidity in the paediatric community Avaliação da morbidade em comunidade infantil

INTRODUCTION: Morbidity information is easily available from medical records but its scope is limited to the population attended by the health services. Information on the prevalence of diseases requires community surveys, which are not always feasible. These two sources of information represent two...

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Main Authors: Maria Mercedes L Escuder, Nilza N da Silva, Júlio CR Pereira, Rosana F Puccini, Anneliese A Herrman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 1999-08-01
Series:Revista de Saúde Pública
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89101999000400005