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Assistência ao pré-natal no Maranhão: guia de implementação e condutas às intercorrências obstétricas

Promover a maternidade segura, garantir o pré-natal, humanizar o atendimento e reduzir mortalidade são prioridades no estado do Maranhão. Desta forma, este guia de implementação e condutas voltado para as Intercorrências Obstétricas é uma iniciativa da Secretaria de Saúde do Estado do Maranhão,...

Pandemia por COVID-19 no Brasil e Espanha: tendências, fatores políticos e contextuais

Introdução: A infecção pelo vírus SARS-CoV-2, que provoca a Coronavírus Disease-2019 (COVID-19), desencadeou uma pandemia, que já causou mais de 4,77 milhões de vítimas fatais pelo mundo, até o dia 17 de agosto de 2021. As consequências da doença, entretanto, extrapolam a área da saúde, e o...

Cambios en la tendencia de mortalidad por suicidio en Chile, 1997-2018

Salud colect; 17 (), 2021
RESUMEN Con base en el registro de defunciones del Departamento de Estadísticas e Información del Ministerio de Salud de Chile, se realizó un estudio ecológico de series de tiempo para determinar cambios en la tendencia de las tasas de mortalidad por suicidio en Chile según sexo y edad, en el period...

Incidencia de infección del sitio quirúrgico en el Servicio de Cirugía I, hospital Dr. Miguel Pérez Carreño. 2019-2021. Estudio observacional
Surgical site infection incidence in surgery service I, Hospital Dr. Miguel Pérez Carreño. 2019-2021 Observational study

Rev. venez. cir; 74 (2), 2021
La infección del sitio quirúrgico es uno de los tipos más frecuentes de infección asociada al cuidado de la salud, tiene un impacto en el estado físico y mental de los pacientes, aumentando el riesgo de mortalidad. El objetivo de este estudio es determinar la incidencia de infección del sitio quirÃ...

Tendencia de la mortalidad por fibrosis quística en Chile, 1997-2017

Introducción. La Fibrosis Quística es la enfermedad hereditaria con pronóstico reducido más frecuente en raza blanca. Su incidencia varía según etnias. En Chile, la incidencia estimada es de 1/10.000 habitantes y la evidencia nacional acerca de la magnitud y caracterización de defunciones es escas...

Redistributing deaths by ill-defined and unspecified causes on cancer mortality in Brazil

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE to discuss the impact four different redistribution strategies have on the quantitative and temporal trends of cancer mortality assessment in Brazil. METHODOLOGY This study used anonymized and georeferenced data provided by the Brazilian Ministry of Health (BMoH). Four different ap...

Excess deaths from all causes and by COVID-19 in Brazil in 2020

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To estimate the 2020 all-cause and COVID-19 excess mortality according to sex, age, race/color, and state, and to compare mortality rates by selected causes with that of the five previous years in Brazil. METHODS Data from the Mortality Information System were used. Expected deaths...

Mortality from diabetes mellitus and its impact on life expectancy at 60 years of age in Mexico

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVES To analyze the behavior of mortality from diabetes mellitus (DM) for both sexes in Mexico from 1998 to 2018, and its impact on life expectancy (LE) from 60 to 85 years of age in the three-year periods 1998-2000 and 2016-2018, compared with other causes of death, as well as to determ...

Incidence and mortality from breast and cervical cancer in a Brazilian town

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVES To analyze the magnitude of changes in the incidence and mortality from cervical cancer (CC) and breast cancer (BC) in Campinas, São Paulo State, between the five-year periods of 1991-1995 and 2010-2014. METHODS data on cancer were obtained from the Campinas Population-Based Canc...

Mortality from oral and oropharyngeal cancer: age-period-cohort effect, Brazil, 1983-2017

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE Estimate the effect of age, period, and birth cohort on mortality from oral and oropharyngeal cancer in Brazil and its macro-regions. METHODS Deaths from oral and oropharyngeal cancer from 1983 to 2017 were analyzed. The Poisson regression model was applied, using estimable functio...