Narrowing inequalities in infant mortality in Southern Brazil Redução das desigualdades na mortalidade infantil na região Sul do Brasil

• Auteurs principaux: Marcelo Zubaran Goldani (Auteur), Rosange Benatti (Auteur), Antônio Augusto Moura da Silva (Auteur), Heloisa Bettiol (Auteur), Joel Cristiano Westphal Correa (Auteur), Marcos Tietzmann (Auteur), Marco Antonio Barbieri (Auteur)
• Format: Livre
• Publié: Universidade de São Paulo, 2002-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Sujets: article
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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 infa...