2012
DOI: 10.1590/s1413-81232012001200013
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Calidad de los sistemas de información de mortalidad por violencias en Argentina y Brasil - 1990-2010

Abstract: Las muertes por violencias son un problema de salud pública por la magnitud de su impacto social y en los servicios de salud. Se realizó un estudio descriptivo de tendencia temporal a partir de los sistemas de información oficiales nacionales de mortalidad por violencias en Argentina y Brasil en el periodo 1990-2010. Se elaboraron indicadores de la calidad de la información según sexo, edad y causa de defunción. Los resultados muestran una tendencia temporal a la mejoría de calidad en los sistemas de informaci… Show more

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“…The upward trend and the (positive or negative) risk of death observed in the mortality rates in these places may be a reflection of both the real increase in the number of homicide-related deaths among women and the effect of a period of improvement in death recordings, given that there has been a reduction in death rates associated to events of undetermined intent in all regions, except for the Southeast and the Northeast 32 .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The upward trend and the (positive or negative) risk of death observed in the mortality rates in these places may be a reflection of both the real increase in the number of homicide-related deaths among women and the effect of a period of improvement in death recordings, given that there has been a reduction in death rates associated to events of undetermined intent in all regions, except for the Southeast and the Northeast 32 .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Furthermore, mortality data produced in Brazil at the beginning of the century are not considered reliable by the PAHO. Therefore, although reports by various authors on Brazilian mortality statistics in the first decade of this century allow us to be optimistic as to their quality 9,18 , the estimates of this study should be treated with a certain degree of caution.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 86%
“…However, studies evaluating the quality of mortality data in Brazil in the first decade of this century have shown a clear improvement in information by sex, age and causes (with completeness of information percentages of over 95% even in the case of assault) 9,18 . For this reason, we decided to work with official mortality statistics disclosed by the respective governments of the two countries and correct data for situations where data was not age and sex specific (under 1% of all deaths in each period) 11,13 by proportionally redistributing nonspecific data across all causes and for each specific examined cause according to the relative weight of each age group and by sex 7 .…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Variadas investigaciones en diversas partes del mundo han colocado su foco de interés en la cuestión de la calidad de los datos de mortalidad 25,32,33,34 .…”
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