Infant mortality in the Americas

Information on registered deaths was used to calculate proportionate infant mortality ra- tios (proportion of infant deaths relative to all deaths at all ages) and proportionate

The infant mortality observed in São Luís in 1997- 98 was higher than that of Ribeirão Preto in 1994, especially regarding the neonatal component and the deaths among newborns

An analysis of the trends observed in cause-specific mortality rates in the SPMA showed a greater reduction in the number of deaths due to infectious diseases in all groups,

Other indicators related to diarrhea rates were analyzed, such as historical time series trends for the rates of infant mortality and overall hospitalization among

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the quality of records for live births and infant deaths and to estimate the infant mortality rate for skin color or race, in order to explore possible

Division of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases at the Hospital of Clinics, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.. Department of Infectious and

In this context, we conclude that the infant mortality rate in the State of São Paulo remained in decline between 1996 and 2012 and had as main components early neonatal deaths

To describe the historical evolution of the infant mortality rate and the infant mortality rate for diseases of the perinatal period and those of neonatal mortality by birth weight