Background Estimates of completeness of death registration are crucial to produce
estimates of life tables and population projections and to estimate the burden of disease …

Introduction Many national and subnational governments need to routinely measure the
completeness of death registration for monitoring and statistical purposes. Existing methods …

Abstract Background In Brazil, both the Civil Registry (CR) and Ministry of Health (MoH)
Mortality Information System (SIM) are sources of routine mortality data, but neither is 100 …

Background In the last 20 years, Brazil has undergone dramatic changes in terms of
socioeconomic development and health care. In the first decade of the 2000s, the Ministry of …

Background In view of the limitations of survey-based demographic techniques for infant
mortality estimation, the current strategy of some developing countries is to improve vital …

Objetivo: Avaliar a qualidade do registro de óbitos do Datasus, por sexo e estados
brasileiros, e estimar as probabilidades de morte adulta, 45q15, por sexo e estados, entre …

OBJECTIVE: To present how the adjustment of incompleteness and misclassification of
causes of death in the vital registration (VR) system can contribute to more accurate …

Background One of the fundamental building blocks for determining the burden of disease in
populations is to reliably measure the level and pattern of mortality by age and sex. Where …

This paper examines the spatial pattern of ill-defined causes of death across Brazilian
regions, and its relationship with the evolution of completeness of the deaths registry and …

BACKGROUND: Calculation of burden of diseases and risk factors is crucial to set priorities
in the health care systems. Nevertheless, the reliable measurement of mortality rates is the …