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Oral cancer mortality trends in Brazilian geographical regions from 1996-2001
(2006-12-01)
The purpose of this study was to analyse the oral cancer mortality trends in Brazil by geographic region, age and sex, from 1996 to 2001. The Brazilian Ministry of Health database DATASUS and the Brazilian Institute of ...
Child health and nutrition in Peru within an antipoverty political agenda: a Countdown to 2015 country case study
(Elsevier, 2016)
BACKGROUND: Peru is an upper-middle-income country with wide social and regional disparities. In recent years, sustained multisectoral antipoverty programmes involving governments, political parties, and civil society ...
Impact of sports participation on mortality rates among Brazilian adults
(2019-07-03)
Objective: To analyze the possible dose-response association between components of sports participation (intensity, volume and previous engagement) and 4-year mortality rates among Brazilian adults. Methods: 679 males and ...
Inequalities in health. Adult mortality in communities of Metropolitan Santiago
(SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2004-04)
Background: In the last decade, Chile achieve a significant reduction in poverty, however income distribution still shows inequalities. The richest 10% of the population perceived 46% of total income. Aim: To study the ...
Sex differences in the incidence, mortality, and fatality of COVID-19 in Peru
(Public Library of Science, 2021)
Background There is a worrying lack of epidemiological data on the sex differential in COVID-19 infection and death rates between the regions of Peru. Methods Using cases and death data from the national population-based ...
Childhood and adolescent obesity and adult mortality: a systematic review of cohort studies
(Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2008)
This systematic review addressed cohort studies on obesity in childhood and adolescence and adult mortality, published from January 1990 to March 2007. We searched the PubMed database with the following uniterms: obesity, ...
Long-term association of economic inequality and mortality in adult Costa Ricans
(2012-01)
Despite the large number of studies, mostly in developed economies, there is limited consensus on the
health effects of inequality. Recently a related literature has examined the relationship between relative
deprivation ...