It has been suggested that decreasing infant mortality is a prerequisite for decreasing birth rates and the experience in several countries shows that decreasing infant mortality rates are indeed followed by declining ...

It has been suggested that decreasing infant mortality is a prerequisite for decreasing birth rates and the experience in several countries shows that decreasing infant mortality rates are indeed followed by declining ...

Published 2016. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.Introduction: Epidemiological studies of the 1957 influenza pandemic are scarce, particularly from lower-income settings. Methods: ...

Objectives To estimate mortality rates and mortality trends from SLE in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Material and methods The official data bank was used to study all deaths occurred from 1985 to 2004 in which SLE was ...

BACKGROUND As COVID-19 continues to spread worldwide with high number of fatalities first in China, then even higher fatalities in Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, and other advanced countries; most African ...

Background: Stomach cancer mortality rates in South America are among the highest in the world. In Peru, stomach cancer has the highest absolute number of cancer deaths in both sexes combined. We estimated mortality rates ...

Our objective was to describe amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) mortality rates in the Chilean population over a 17-year period. Chilean death records (1994-2010) were reviewed for the ICD-10 diagnosis G.12.2 (including ...

BACKGROUND: This study examined the variation in city-level amenable mortality, i.e. mortality due to conditions that can be mitigated in the presence of timely and effective healthcare, in 363 Latin American cities and ...

Objective: Coronavirus disease is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. Epidemiological and clinical features of patients with COVID-19 have been examined but Socio-economic aspects of the issue ...

OBJECTIVE: To describe and analyze the evolution of perinatal mortality with regards the scale and extent of the problem. METHODS: A descriptive time trend study with 10,994 perinatal deaths to mothers living in Salvador, ...