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| Oliveira,Z.A.R.; Bettiol,H.; Gutierrez,M.R.P.; Silva,A.A.M.; Barbieri,M.A.. |
| Few studies have described factors associated with infant and adolescent mortality since birth. We report here mortality during a 20-year period in a birth cohort from Ribeirão Preto in order to identify birth variables that influenced mortality among infants and children between 10 and 19 years of age, the main causes of death, and the influence of social inequality at birth on death. Mothers were interviewed shortly after delivery. Social, biological and demographic information was collected, and mortality up to 19 years of age was investigated in registry systems. Of the 6748 liveborn singletons born in the municipality from 1978 to 1979, 343 died before or when 19 years of age were completed. Most of the cohort mortality (74.9%) occurred during the... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Infant mortality; Adolescence; Causes of death; External causes; Socioeconomic factors; Social inequality; 20-year Brazilian cohort study. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2007000900012 |
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