Las tendencias de la mortalidad por enfermedades respiratorias en América Latina desde 1998 y el impacto de la pandemia de gripe de 2009

• Main Authors: Maria de Fatima Marinho de Souza (Author), Marc-Alain Widdowson (Author), Airlane P Alencar (Author), Vilma P Gawryszewski (Author), Eduardo Aziz-Baumgartner (Author), Rakhee Palekar (Author), Joseph Breese (Author), Po-Yung Cheng (Author), Jarbas Barbosa (Author), Ana M Cabrera (Author), Andrea Olea (Author), Arturo B Flores (Author), David K Shay (Author), Anthony Mounts (Author), Otavio P Oliva (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2013-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: To determine trends in mortality from respiratory disease in several areas of Latin America between 1998 and 2009. METHODS: The numbers of deaths attributed to respiratory disease between 1998 and 2009 were extracted from mortality data from Argentina, southern Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica,...