Comparison of crude and adjusted mortality rates from leading causes of death in northeastern Brazil Comparación de las tasas de mortalidad bruta y ajustada debida a las principales causas de muerte en el nordeste del Brasil

Comparison of crude and adjusted mortality rates from leading causes of death in northeastern Brazil Comparación de las tasas de mortalidad bruta y ajustada debida a las principales causas de muerte en el nordeste del Brasil

OBJECTIVE: To present how the adjustment of incompleteness and misclassification of causes of death in the vital registration (VR) system can contribute to more accurate estimates of the risk of mortality from leading causes of death in northeastern Brazil. METHODS: After estimating the total number...

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Main Authors: Elisabeth França, Chalapati Rao, Daisy Maria Xavier de Abreu, Maria de Fátima Marinho de Souza, Alan D. Lopez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pan American Health Organization 2012-04-01
Series:Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
Subjects:
Causas de muerte
mortalidad
estadísticas vitales
Brasil
Cause of death
mortality
vital statistics
Brazil
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1020-49892012000400002

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