Narrowing inequalities in infant mortality in Southern Brazil

Autor:	Goldani Marcelo Zubaran, Benatti Rosange, Silva Antônio Augusto Moura da, Bettiol Heloisa, Correa Joel Cristiano Westphal, Tietzmann Marcos, Barbieri Marco Antonio
Jazyk:	English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání:	2002
Předmět:	Health inequality Infant mortality/trends Mortality rate Neonatal mortality (public health) Women's schooling rates Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270
Zdroj:	Revista de Saúde Pública, Vol 36, Iss 4, Pp 478-483 (2002)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	0034-8910 1518-8787
Popis:	OBJECTIVE: To determine the trends of infant mortality from 1995 to 1999 according to a geographic area-based measure of maternal education in Porto Alegre, Brazil. METHODS: A registry-based study was carried out and a municipal database created in 1994 was used. All live births (n=119,170) and infant deaths (n=1,934) were considered. Five different geographic areas were defined according to quintiles of the percentage of low maternal educational level (
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