Chagas disease mortality in Brazil: A Bayesian analysis of age-period-cohort effects and forecasts for two decades.

• Main Authors: Taynãna César Simões (Author), Laiane Félix Borges (Author), Auzenda Conceição Parreira de Assis (Author), Maria Vitórias Silva (Author), Juliano Dos Santos (Author), Karina Cardoso Meira (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Chagas disease (CD) is a neglected chronic parasitic infection and a public health problem that is preventable, and has serious complications. In this study, the effects of age, period and birth cohort (APC Effects) on the evolution of the mortality of that disease in Brazil, from 1980-20...