Cervical cancer mortality trends in Brazil: 1980-2009

• Main Authors: Carolina Maciel Reis Gonzaga (Author), Ruffo Freitas-Junior (Author), Aline Almeida Barbaresco (Author), Edesio Martins (Author), Bruno Teixeira Bernardes (Author), Ana Paula Magalhães Resende (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The objective was to describe time trends in cervical cancer mortality rates in Brazil as a whole and in the country's major geographic regions and States from 1980 to 2009. This was an ecological time series study using data recorded in the Mortality Information System (SIM) and census data co...