Narrowing inequalities in infant mortality in Southern Brazil

Autor:	Marcelo Zubaran Goldani, Rosange Benatti, Antônio Augusto Moura da Silva, Heloisa Bettiol, Joel Cristiano Westphal Correa, Marcos Tietzmann, Marco Antonio Barbieri
Jazyk:	English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání:	2002
Předmět:	Iniqüidade na saúde Mortalidade infantil Coeficiente de mortalidade Mortalidade neonatal (saúde pública) Taxas de escolaridade feminina Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270
Zdroj:	Revista de Saúde Pública, Vol 36, Iss 4, Pp 478-483 (2002)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	1518-8787 0034-8910
DOI:	10.1590/s0034-89102002000400014
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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