2001
DOI: 10.1590/s0102-311x2001000300008
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Confiabilidade das informações de causa básica nas declarações de óbito por causas externas em menores de 18 anos no Município de Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Abstract: This study assesses the quality of official data on mortality due to external causes. It examines the agreement in the underlying cause of death by accidents and violence in children and adolescents under 18 years of age in the Municipality of Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro State. Codings based on death certificates (DC) issued by the Institute of Forensic Medicine - IFM (ICDifm) and those complemented by the Municipal Secretariat of Health - MSH (ICDmsh) are compared to the coding directly obtained from auto… Show more

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“…This classifi cation is recently being employed by a number of authors, 12 and represents a further development over the classifi cation proposed by Landis & Koch. 4 …”
Section: Duas úLtimas Semanas Qual Foi Ou Quais Foram Esses Problemamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This classifi cation is recently being employed by a number of authors, 12 and represents a further development over the classifi cation proposed by Landis & Koch. 4 …”
Section: Duas úLtimas Semanas Qual Foi Ou Quais Foram Esses Problemamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This practice leads to an excessively high number of deaths classified as "unspecified accidents" or "injuries of unknown intentionality". 7,8,15 Systematic investigation and use of information available in IML database are alternative options some local authorities have taken to improve quality of violent death registrations. 1,2,15 In the state of Minas Gerais, Southeastern Brazil, Fundação João Pinheiro was responsible for managing vital statistics until 1999.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…7,8,15 Systematic investigation and use of information available in IML database are alternative options some local authorities have taken to improve quality of violent death registrations. 1,2,15 In the state of Minas Gerais, Southeastern Brazil, Fundação João Pinheiro was responsible for managing vital statistics until 1999. However, in 1995, after a third copy of DC was set as a requirement, the Municipal Health Department of Belo Horizonte (SMSA) started its own database following standard criteria for data coding and processing.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The fast and significant growth of mortality due to external causes (accidents and violence) has raised the issue of violence as an important problem for public health, arousing great concern for the health sector (1)(2)(3) .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Recently underlined by communication media, violence, which used to be understood as a problem of the police, justice system, philosophy, as well as the social field, has become a concern for the public health universe mainly because the causes are predictable and preventable (1)(2)4) .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%