Excess mortality according to group of causes in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil

• Main Authors: Raphael Mendonça Guimarães (Author), Mariana Passos Ribeiro Pinto Basílio de Oliveira (Author), Viviane Gomes Parreira Dutra (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Associação Brasileira de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva, 2022-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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ABSTRACT Objective: To estimate excess mortality by cause of death in Brazil and states in 2020. Methods: We estimated the expected number of deaths considering a linear trend analysis with the number of deaths between 2015 and 2019 for each group of causes and each federative unit. We calculated st...